International Hybrid Conference: Responding to the World in Disorder, featuring RGP Grantees from Southeast Asia
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SHAPE-SEA Concludes Two-Day Plenary on Intergenerational Dialogue, Solidarity, and Environmental Rights in 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.
TUESDAY, JULY 08 2025
Day 01
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.
Nattanicha Kattiyavara, BA student, Social Policy and Development International Programme, Thammasat University
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10am
With John Shrader
Graphic Designer, Divi
Atty. Gerald John Guillermo (Policy Associate, ImagineLaw; Founder, Keep the Change: Youth Policy Lab)
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11am
With Janet Brown
CEO, Extra Space
Pianporn Deetes (Regional Campaigns Director, Southeast Asia Program, International Rivers)
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1pm
With Kelsey Rowan
Marketing Director, Monarch Inc.
Dr. Zainun Mustafa (Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris; RGP 2023 Alumni)
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2:15pm
Danny Meyers
Tech Lead, Bloom
WEDNESDAY, JULY 09 2025
Day 02
The second day of plenary focused on environmental justice through the plenary session, “Grounding Environmental Rights in Southeast Asia: Voices from the Margins, Lessons for the Region,” moderated by Asst. Prof. Dr. Carl Middleton of Chulalongkorn University. Rizqan Kariema Mustafa, Bunly Soeung, Assoc. Prof. Norafidah Binti Ismail, and Assoc. Prof. Ratnaria Binti Wahid shared insights from Indonesia, Cambodia, and Malaysia—emphasizing Indigenous resistance, the transformative role of women, and the importance of leveraging big data for human rights-centered environmental governance.
Mr. Rizqan Kariema Mustafa, PKDU (Pusat Kajian Daulat Umat), Indonesia
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10am
With John Shrader
Graphic Designer, Divi
Mr. Bunly Soeung, Svay Rieng University, Cambodia
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11am
With Janet Brown
CEO, Extra Space
Assoc. Prof Norafidah Binti Ismail, School of International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia
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1pm
With Kelsey Rowan
Marketing Director, Monarch Inc.
Assoc. Prof. Ratnaria Binti Wahid, Universiti Utara Malaysia
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2:15pm
Danny Meyers
Tech Lead, Bloom
