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Dr. Eakpant Pindavanija was a Lecturer at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University from 2006 – 2020, and served as the Director of this institute from 2014 – 2020. He is currently the Head of Peace and Conflict Research Unit at Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University. He has an expertise on peace research, conflict transformation as well as peace and conflict theories. He graduated Inter-European Doctorate in Peace, Conflict and Development from Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. He has been involved with academic teaching and research on peace and conflict issues in Thailand and the southernmost provinces of Thailand. He has been a lecturer for both bachelor and graduate programs almost 2 decades. His research projects also include Community-based Development during the time of conflict; Communication mechanism in local community to reduce factors to conflict; Protracted social conflict in the southernmost provinces of Thailand; Cognitive Process of the Youth in the Three Southernmost Provinces leading to cultural violence; and Study of Social Healing Factors and Process that Lead to Reconciliation and Forgiveness.