Research Grants
SHAPE-SEA’s vision is to strengthen the protection and promotion of human rights and peace in Southeast Asia/ASEAN through education and research. SHAPE-SEA provides Research Grants Programme that aims to support scholars, academics and researchers in carrying out original, groundbreaking and innovative research projects leading to the promotion and protection of human rights & peace in Southeast Asia/ASEAN.
| Year | Grant Type | Title | Final Amount (THB) | Current Status | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Exploring the Nexus between Technologies and Human Rights: Opportunities and Challenges in ASEAN/Southeast Asia | 92,000 | On going | ||
| 2015 | MA | Troble in Paradise? Analyzing the Effects of International Law-Skilled Migration on Local Workers: A Study of Koh Phi Phi, Krabi Province, Thailand | 96,000 | Closed | |
| 2015 | MA | Acountability Beyond The State: Corporations, Human Rights & Extraterritorial Obligations | 80,000 | Closed | |
| 2015 | MA | The Right to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities around Yangon, Myanmar: The Impact of Draft Law | 96,000 | Closed | The Rights to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities in Yangon, Myanmar |
| 2015 | PhD | Measuring Vulnerability of Judicial Protection to the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief for Minority Group in Indonesia | 160,000 | Closed | Judicial Protection for a Religious Minority in Indonesia under the Shadow of the Blasphemy Law |
| 2015 | PhD | Sustaining media reforms in transition politics a study of three Southeast Asian countries | 160,000 | Closed | |
| 2015 | PhD | Judicial Independence: The factors undermining the right to a fair trial in Myanmar's Armed Conflict Region | 160,000 | Closed | |
| 2015 | Small | Seeking "Arenas of Justice" on Transboundary Rivers : A Rights-Based Approach to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus on the Saiween and Mekong Rivers | 160,000 | Closed | |
| 2015 | Small | Labor Rights Challenges in the Private and Small enterprises in Yangon, Myanmar | 159,360 | Closed | Labor Rights Challenges in the Private and Small enterprises in Yangon, Myanmar |
| 2015 | MA | Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institutions: Extending ASEAN Norms | 314,496 | Closed | National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia: Potential and Challenges |
| 2015 | MA | Human Rights Based - Approach, an alternative to improve effectiveness of poverty reduction program and accountability of state business in Vietnam | 442,720 | Closed | |
| 2015 | MA | Academic Freedom in Post New Order Indonesia | 320,000 | Closed | Ivory Tower on Dirt: The Impacts of Regime Changes on Academic Freedom in Indonesian Universities |
| 2015 | Regional | Rights and Social and Health Security of Older People. A Survey of the ASEAN Region | 1,491,200 | Closed | |
| 2015 | Regional | Democracy and Human Rights in Malaysia and Indonesia: Paths and Outcomes | 1,120,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | PhD | Mối quan hệ giữ Hiến pháp và Quyền con người ở Việt Nam | 50,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | PhD | State Inclusion of LGBT Human Rights: Implication to Philippine Development | 170,000 | Closed | The Emergence of LGBT Human Rights and the Use of Discourse Analysis for Understanding LGBT State Inclusion |
| 2016 | PhD | Interfaith-based Student Movement: A Strategic Religious Peacemaking in Indonesia | 100,00 | Closed | Interfaith-Based Student Community: A Strategic Religious Peacemaking and Deradicalization for Indonesian Youth |
| 2016 | MA | Gender and Involuntary Resettlement in the Context of an Ethnic Minority Group: A Case Study in Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam | 70,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Regional | Migration, Rights, and Health Security in Southeast Asia | 900,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Regional | Community engagement as governance mechanisms for improving sexual and reproductive health and rights – two cases in Myanmar and Cambodia | 800,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Medium | Regional Migration & the Urban Sheltering Process: An interdisciplinary research on Women, Migration and Housing Rights in Cambodia and Thailand | 350,000 | Closed | The Right to Adequate Housing for Female Migrant Workers |
| 2016 | Medium | Constructing an Integrated Framework for Analysing Human Rights Awareness Among University Students in ASEAN Countries: Malaysia and Thailand | 700,000 | Closed | Towards a Framework for Analysing Human Rights Awareness among Undergraduate Students in Southeast Asia/ASEAN |
| 2016 | Medium | Women and the ASEAN 2025 Vision: Using CEDAW and Human Rights Instruments in Locating the Gender and Human Rights Dimension of the ASEAN Economic Community | 360,000 | Closed | Women and the ASEAN 2025: Locating the Gender and Human Rights Dimension of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) |
| 2016 | Medium | Women’s Participation in Peace Processes in Myanmar and Thailand | 340,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Medium | From Banglamung to Dawei: Uses of Documentary films as Social Practice for Promoting Human Rights: a case study of The Wave of Sorrow and The Third Eye | 250,000 | Closed | Use of Observational Documentary to Advocate Human Rights among Youth in Thailand and Myanmar: A Case Study of The Third Eye |
| 2016 | Small | Social Conflict and Gap on Tourism Activity: A Case Study in Cai Rang Floating Market of Can Tho City | 200,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Small | The Expulsion of Leftist Students and Scholars from Universities, 1965-1980: Another ‘Forgotten’ Gross Human Right Violation in Indonesia | 200,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Small | The Architecture of Migrant Workers protection in Southeast Asia: Understanding the role of transnational avocacy network | 200,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Small | Polling for Peace in Southern Thailand | 125,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Small | The challenges in the political participation of the Taoi women and Cotu women in Thua Thien Hue Province of Vietnam | 170,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Small | Right to Education of Muslim Transgender: A Case Study of Pesantren Waria Senin-Kamis, Indonesia | 180,000 | Closed | |
| 2016 | Small | Violation Against Right to Environment and to Food in the Case of the Development of a Cement Factory in Pati District, Central Java, Indonesia | 182,500 | Closed | Violation Against The Right To Environment And To Food In The Case Of The Development Of A Cement Factory In Pati District, Central Java, Indonesia |
| 2016 | Small | The State of Academic Rights in Malaysian Universities | 182,500 | Closed | |
| 2017 | MA | The Right to Identity : The Case of Stateless and Undocumented Children of Filipino Origin in Sabah | 105,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | MA | Right of Education for Women to Access to Undergraduate Degree in Cambodia | 105,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Regional | Right to Development of Women and Food Security in Mekong River in the Context of Hydropower Dams | 950,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Medium | Revolutionary Peace: Transformative Roles of Movement Leaders and "Insiders" in the Self-Determination Conflicts in Patani, Thailand and the Bangsamoro areas, Philippines | 680,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Medium | Plural Citizenships” and the Politics of Indigenous Rights in Indonesia - Case Study: the Dayak in West Kalimantan and SedulurSikep in Central Java | 350,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Medium | Children’ s rights in the tourism industry: A case study in Vietnam and Myanmar | 600,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Medium | Exploring the Linkages between Climate Change Impacts and Human Rights and Security of Local Communities in Selected Conflict-affected Areas in South-central Mindanao, Philippines | 350,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Medium | Mainstreaming Human Rights in the Governance of HIV/ AIDS Response in Indonesia: A Case Study Of Education for Children with HIV/AIDS in Jakarta, Solo and Surabaya | 350,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Strengthening Participation of Vietnamese Women in Climate Change Adaptation in Lao Cai: Rights to adequate food amidst Gender Inequality | 180.000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Death Penalty towards Alternative Human Sanctions: Indonesia Experience Dealing with Drugs War | 250,000 | Closed | Death Penalty towards Alternative Human Sanctions: A Response to Drug Wars Movement in Indonesia |
| 2017 | Small | Ex Political Prisoners’ Rights and Their Medico-Social Needs in Myanmar | 200,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Enabling Human Rights-Centered Approach in Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in Tacloban City, Philippines | 250,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Assessing Supports to Promote Better Access to Education within Islamic in a Conflict Zone - Ampor Muang Yala Province | 250,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Collective Memory of the Human Rights Violations during the Martial Law Among Young Educated Filipinos | 200,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Human Rights Based Conflict Handling in Mining Process: Case Study of Tumpang Pitu, Banyuwangi, Indonesia | 180,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | The impact of amnesty law towards the promotion of reconciliation in post-conflict Aceh | 105,000 | Closed | The Promise of Reconciliation: The Limits of Amnesty Law in Post-Conflict Aceh |
| 2017 | Small | Rights to access basic education for school-age children and basic health care for the ethnic minority communities in Central Myanmar's Difficult Rural Areas under reality contexts | 250,000 | Closed | |
| 2017 | Small | Voices of the Marginalized Groups: Lived experiences of LGBTI community members during ‘socialist’ Vietnam | 180,000 | Closed | |
| 2018 | MA | Assessing Peace and Security Situation in the Post-Conflict “Widow’s Village” in Rotan Batu Village, Narathiwat Province, Thailand | 102,000 | Closed | Gender and Human Security: A Case Study of the Resettlement of Rotan Batu “Widow’s Village” in Narathiwat Province, Thailand |
| 2018 | MA | Paradise Lost: Rapid Tourism Development and the Socio-Political Struggle of the Ati Community of Boracay | 102,000 | Closed | Children’s Rights in the Tourism Industry |
| 2018 | MA | Self-Care and Personal Well-Being Concept within Securities and Protection Mechanism for Women Human Rights Defenders. Case of Lesbian Bisexual Queer (LBQ) Women and Transgender Female to Male Activist | 100,000 | Closed | Integrated Safety and Security Mechanism for Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer (LBQ) Women and Transgender Men Activists |
| 2018 | MA | Network of Civil Society Organizations in Indonesia and Political and Electoral Rights Case Study: Komite Independen Pemantau Pemilu (KIPP- Independent Committee for Election Monitoring) | 100,000 | Closed | Rethinking Citizen’s Election Monitoring: A Means for Public Engagement in Political Processes and Civic Education in Indonesia |
| 2018 | Medium | Surviving the Present, Imagining the Future: Narratives of Children Left Behind by the ‘War on Drugs’ | 400,000 | Closed | Surviving the Present, Imagining the Future: Narratives of Children Left Behind by the Philippine ‘War on Drugs |
| 2018 | Medium | Changing of land and property rights of resettled people due to resettlement program and its impacts on their livelihoods in resettled areas in Thua Thien, Hue province, Vietnam | 400,000 | Closed | The challenges in the political participation of the Taoi women and Cotu women in ThuaThienHue Province of Vietnam |
| 2018 | Medium | Crafting Rights-Based Water Governance: State, Market and Urban Poor in Indonesia | 450,000 | Closed | |
| 2018 | Small | Beyond Forced Eviction and Demolitions: Understanding the Unmaking and Remaking of Urban Poor People's Homes | 250,000 | Closed |