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Assistant Professor Dr. Suchart Setthamalinee

National Human Rights Commissioner of Thailand
Education

      Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Hawai‘i , Honolulu, U.S.A., 2010.
      Graduate Certificate International Cultural Studies, East-west Center and University of Hawai’i,  U.S.A., 2004.
      M.A. (Sociology), University of Hawai‘i , Honolulu, U.S.A., 2003.
      M.A. (Population and Social Research), Mahidol University, Thailand, 1992.
      B.A. (Sociology and Anthropology; Second Class Honors), Thammasat University, Thailand, 1988. 

Experience
     Commissioner, The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (25 May 2021-Present)
     Head, Department of Peace Studies, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, (2013 -May 2020)
     Part-Time Faculty, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, (2014-2020)
     Director, Institute of Religion, Culture and Peace, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, (2012-2015)
     Full-Time Faculty, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, (1994 – 2012)
     Regional Coordinator (Northern Region), Local Development Institute (LDI), (1992-1994)
Writing work

    2019-2020, Lessons Learned from Conflicts and Everyday Life Peacebuilding. Funded by The Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre.
     2018-2019, The Cooperation Between Thailand and Malaysia on the Issue of Refugee: Case Studies of Rohingya and Uyghurs. Funded by Thailand Research Fund.
     2016-2018, Violence Without Borders Among Transnational Immigrants: A Case Study of Uyghurs from Xinjiang. Funded by Thailand Research Fund.
     2013-2015, Peacebuilding in Ethnoreligious Pluralistic Society: A Case Study of Muslims Communities in Northern Thailand. Funded by Thailand Research Fund.
     2012, Nonviolence in Islamic Ways. Funded by Institute of Human Rights and Nonviolence, Mahidol University.
     2009-2011, The Cultural Dimension of Peacebuilding. Funded by Thailand Research Fund.
     1998-1999, Ecotourism, Cultural Adaptation and Community-Based Natural Resources Management Potential among Various Ethnic Groups in Mae Hong Son Province, Funded by Thailand Research Fund.

PUBLICATIONS:
Books: (In Thai)
     2022. “Multiculturalism and society in the southern border provinces.” Yala: Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center. (93 pages)     
     2019. “Life Path in Islam and Peacebuilding” in Janjira Sombatpoonsiri and Prajak Kongkirati.
Between Enigma and Faith: Chaiwat Satha-Anand and Human Politics in the 21th Century. Bangkok. Siam Panya. Pp. 501-528.
     2018. “Multiculturalism and Chinese Muslim: Love, Hate, Sweet and Bitter”, in Eakkarin Tuansiri (Editor). Views on Multiculturalism. Pattani: Patani Fourum. Pp. 44-60.
     2018. “Violence Without Borders: A Case Study of Political Refugee in Thailand.” Asian Review. 38: 2 (July-December), Pp. 27-56.
     2017. “In the Name of Islam: A Survey of Islamic Teaching on Peace, Violence, Family, and Women.” Pattani: Patani Forum. (232 pages)
     2016. “Chinese Muslims in Northern Thailand: The Making of the Middle Class through Multiple Identities,” In Takako Yamada and Toko Fujimoto (eds.) Migration and the Remaking of Ethnic/Micro-Regional Connectedness. Senri Ethnological Studies no.93. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Pp.67-87.
     2016. Sociological Imagination of Islam. Pattani: Patani Forum.
     2016. “Peacebuilding in Ethnoreligious Pluralistic Society: A Case Study of Chinese Muslim in Northern Thailand,” Journal of Thammasat University. 35: 2 (May-August), Pp. 1-29
     2016. “Peacebuilding in Ethnoreligious Pluralistic Society: A Case Study of Muslim Communities in Northern Thailand.” In Yos Santasombat. (eds.). Borders and Diversity of Beliefs. Chiang Mai: Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. Pp. 327-378.
     2015. “The Cultural Dimension of Peacebuilding.” In Mark Tamthai. (ed.). The Philosophical and Cultural Dimension of Peace Building. Bangkok: Kopfai. Pp. 263-305.
     2015. “Islam and Women Rights and Equality.” In Chockchai Wongtanee (eds.). Manual of Human Rights Studies for People in Southernmost Provinces. Bangkok: National Human Rights Commission. Pp. 89-121.
     2014. Muslim Youth and Modernity (editor). Bangkok: Thailand Research Fund, 792 pages.
     2013. “Chinese Muslim in Northern Thailand: Common Culture Through Multiple Identities.” AMRON Journal of Muslim Studies. 1: 1 (June 2013). Pp. 92-127
     2012. “Chinese Muslims in Southeast Asia.” Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Apr 17, 2012.  http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t343/e0038
     2007. “Violence, Peace and the Diversity of Islamic World.” Bangkok: Siam. (213 pages)
     2007. “The Transformation of Yunnanese Muslims Identities in Northern Thailand,” Journal of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. 19: 2, Pp.22-58

 Books(In English)

     2016. “The Diversity of Chinese Muslim Identities: A Special Hui in Yunnan” in Gui Rong, Hacer Zekiye Gönül and Zhang Xiaoyan (Eds.) Hui Muslims in China. Leuven: Leuven University Press. Pp. 113-126.

     2013. “Suthep Soonthornpasuch: the Pioneer of Chinese Muslim Studies in Thailand.” in Suthep Soonthornpasuch. Islamic Identity in Chiengmai City: A Historical and Structural Composition of Two Communities. Chaing Mai: Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Chiang Mai University. Pp. 208-222.

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