International Hybrid Conference: Responding to the World in Disorder, featuring RGP Grantees from Southeast Asia

BANGKOK, THAILAND | SHAPE-SEA (Strengthening Human Rights and Peace Research and Education in ASEAN/Southeast Asia) successfully concluded an insightful two-day plenary session from July 8–9, 2025, at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, as part of the International Hybrid Conference: Responding to a World in Disorder. The event focused on Intergenerational Dialogue and Solidarity in Rights, Politics, and Sustainable Development, while emphasizing urgent environmental rights issues affecting marginalized communities across the region.

Attended by approximately 110 participants—60 on-site and 50 online—the gathering brought together a diverse audience of students, academics, researchers, civil society members, and experts from different parts of the region. The event provided a platform for critical exchange, collaboration, and collective reflection on how Southeast Asia can respond to complex and overlapping crises through inclusive, rights-based approaches. The two-day event reaffirmed SHAPE-SEA’s mission to support knowledge co-creation among home-grown scholars, promote human rights education and research that fosters inclusive dialogue, amplify voices from the margins, and advance collaborative, evidence-based solutions to the region’s most urgent challenges.

First day featured the plenary titled “Intergenerational Dialogue and Solidarity in Rights, Politics, and Sustainable Development,” moderated by Dr. Vachararutai Boontinand. Panelists Nattanicha Kattiyavara, Atty. Gerald John Guillermo, Pianporn Deetes, and Dr. Zainun Mustafa shared case studies and practical tools to strengthen cross-generational partnerships in research, advocacy, and policymaking.