Conflict Transformation & Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in Asia & Europe Program & Profiles ASEFUAN

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PROGRAMME

Day 131 July 2012 (Tuesday)

Venue: Leong Hall

0800 – 0900 -­ Registration

0900 – 0930 -­ Master of Ceremonies: Mr. Pim van LoonPresident, ASEFUAN

Welcome Addresses

Dr. John Paul C. VergaraVice-­President for Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University

Mr. Lubomir FrebortChargé d'AffairesDelegation of the European Union to the Philippines

0930 – 1100 -­ First SessionContemporary Challenges of Peace-­Building in Asia-­PacificModerator: Dr. Laurent Frideres, ASEFUANSenior Consultant, Clustering and Economic Development, PwC LuxembourgAffiliated Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Rapporteur: Mr. Dinesh Sathisan, ASEFUANInternational Defense Policy Officer, Ministry of Defense, Singapore

The Peace and Security Situation in Asia-­PacificDr. Clarita CarlosPresident, Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Inc.European Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University

The South China Sea Dispute: The Way ForwardH.E. Ambassador Rosario G. ManaloGovernor for the Philippines, Asia-­Europe Foundation (ASEF) Board of GovernorsEuropean Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University

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Dr. Paul WangDepartment of World HistoryNankai University

1100 – 1115 -­ Break (Leong Hall Roof Deck)

1115 – 1230 -­ Second SessionContemporary Challenges of Peace-­Building for EuropeModerator: Dr. Marissa Maricosa A. Paderon

Director, European Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila UniversityRapporteur: Dr. Nikki Briones-­Carsi Cruz, ASEFUAN

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ateneo de Manila University

Contemporary Challenges to Peace in EuropeProf. Dr. David Javier Garcia CantalapiedraDepartment of International Law and International RelationsFaculty of Political Science and SociologyUniversidad Complutense de MadridASEFUAN

Peace Mediation as a Reflection of Finnish Foreign Policy: A Case StudyDr. Mika AaltolaDirector, Global Security Research ProgramThe Finnish Institute of International Affairs

1230 – 1330 -­ Lunch (Leong Hall Roof Deck)

1330 – 1500 -­ Third SessionGender-­Based Violence and the Role of Women in Peace-­BuildingModerator: Dr. Marita Concepcion C. Guevara

Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary StudiesAteneo de Manila University

Rapporteur: Ms. Catherine Candano, ASEFUANResearch Scholar, Communications and New Media DepartmentNational University of Singapore

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Hate CrimesMs. Hender GercioASEFUANFormer President, University of the Philippines Babaylan

Gender-­Based Crimes in International LawProf. Amparita Sta. MariaDirector, Urduja Women’s Rights DeskAteneo Human Rights Center, Ateneo de Manila School of Law

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The Role of Muslim Women in Promoting PeaceAtty. Raissa JajurieVice-­ChairpersonNisa Ul-­Haqq fi Bangsamoro (Women for Justice in the Bangsamoro)

1500 – 1515 -­ Break (Leong Hall Roof Deck)

1515 – 1645 -­ Fourth SessionTowards Solutions: International Engagement in Peace-­BuildingModerator: Dr. Alma O. Salvador

Chairperson, Political Science Department, Ateneo de Manila UniversityRapporteur: Ms. Cathy Pabalan-­Frideres

Director, Rosetta Translation LimitedVice-­President, ASEFUAN

Responsibility to Protect: The Role of Communities in Preventing AtrocitiesProf. Moner BajunaidCo-­Convenor, Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy

Bi-­regional Cooperation in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Aceh MonitoringMissionH.E. Ambassador Karel KovandaGovernor for the European UnionASEF Board of Governors

Third Party Mediation in the Mindanao Peace ProcessProf. Miriam Coronel-­FerrerMember, Government of the Philippines Peace Panel with the Moro IslamicLiberation Front (MILF), Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace ProcessRepublic of the Philippines

1700 – 1900 -­ Launch of “Bahagian”Shared Heritage: As We See It – A Traveling ExhibitionPhilippine LegVenue: Manuel V. Pangilinan (MVP) Hall

With the special performance of Dr. Jaime Reis and Ms. Joana Guerra (Portugal)ASEFUAN

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0800 – 0900 -­ Registration

0900 – 1100 -­ Fifth SessionInnovative Approaches To Non-­Violent ChangeModerator: Dr. Luis F. Dumlao

Chairperson, Department of Economics, Ateneo de Manila UniversityRapporteur: Ms. Krystle Wong, Executive Committee, ASEFUAN

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

Arts for Conflict Transformation and Peace-­buildingMs. Sarah QueblatinArt Facilitator, Community Artist

Civil Resistance in Promoting Social Change: The Example of the Sumilao FarmersAtty. Marlon ManuelNational Coordinator, Alternative Law Groups, Inc.

Dealing with Company-­Community Conflicts Involving Indigenous PeoplesMs. Mia Theresa Quiaoit-­CorpusExecutive Director, Conflict Resolution Group Foundation, Inc.

1100 – 1115 -­ Break (Leong Hall Roof Deck)

1115 – 1215 -­ Sixth SessionAnother World is Possible: The Way to PeaceModerator: Dr. Cristina J. Montiel, Professor, Psychology Department

Ateneo de Manila UniversityEditor, Peace Psychology in Asia

Rapporteur: Mr. Nick McIlroy, ASEFUANShanghai Office, Bord Bia-­Irish Food Board

Solidarity Economics: A World of Cooperation, a World Beyond Capitalism?Prof. Nathalie VercelesUniversity of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development

Sustainable Development: PeaceworkProf. Virginia Bonoan-­DandanUnited Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity

DAY 21 August 2012 (Wednesday)

Venue: Leong Hall

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1215 – 1315 -­ Lunch (Leong Hall Roof Deck)

1315 – 1445 -­ Paper presentationsModerator: Mr. Andreas Wiese

Executive Committee, ASEFUANUniversity of Oxford

Conflict transformation through Dialogue: A Model Proposed to Address the ConflictBetween the Government of Indonesia and the Indigenous PapuansMs. Neles TebayRector, Fajar Timur School of Philosophy and Theology, Papua, IndonesiaCoordinator, Papua Peace Network

Weaving Tongtongan and Lupon: Exploring the Integration of Customary andModern Practices of Conflict Resolution among the Ibaloi of BenguetAngela L. Chamos, Faye W. Alipio, Kayser Clair V. Dodon, Cherry Ann C. Egsan,Clara Mae V. Manzano, John PalmaPresenter: Angela L. ChamosAssociate Professor for the Department of Legal Studies, Political and SocialSciences;; Associate Professor for the Department of Business EconomicsSaint Louis University, Baguio City

Tongtongan: An Exploratory Study on the Indigenous Alternative DisputeResolution Mechanism in La Trinidad, BenguetRyan Israel Torres AdvinculaResearcher, Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration

1445 – 1500 -­ Break (Leong Hall Roof Deck)

1500 – 1730 -­ Workshop on Conflict Resolution for LeadersFacilitator: Conflict Resolution Group (CoRe Group) Foundation, Inc.

1730 – 1745 -­ Closing Ceremonies of the Academic ConferenceFr. Jose M. Cruz, S.J.Vice President for University and Global RelationsAteneo de Manila University

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0800 – 1200 -­ Annual General Meeting;; Election of Executive Committee members(for ASEFUAN members only)

1200 – 1300 Lunch (CTC 201)

1300 – 1330 Continuation-­ Annual General Meeting;; Election of Executive Committee members(for ASEFUAN members only)

1330 – 1745 -­ Cultural TourWalled City: Intramuros

1800 – 2000 -­ Dinner and Cultural ShowIntramuros

Day 32 August 2012 (Thursday)

Venue: Faura AVR

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PROFILES

WELCOME REMARKS

Dr. John Paul C. VergaraVice President for the Loyola SchoolsAteneo de Manila University

Dr. John Paul C. Vergara is the current Vice President for the Loyola Schoolsof the Ateneo de Manila University. The Loyola Schools is the university’shigher education unit. He is a computer scientist with an undergraduate degreefrom the Ateneo de Manila University, and graduate and doctoral degrees fromthe Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Apart from hisadministrative duties, he is a professor with the Department of InformationSystems and Computer Science at the Ateneo de Manila’s School of Scienceand Engineering.

Mr. Lubomir FrebortChargé d'AffairesDelegation of the European Union to the Philippines

SPEAKERS

Dr. Clarita R. CarlosPresident, Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Inc.European Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University

Clarita Carlos is professor of political science at University of the Philippinesand is also a member of the faculty of the Ateneo European Studies Program.She was the first female, civilian President of the National Defense College ofthe Philippines. She has written on political parties, elections, bureaucraticreform and democratic deficits, among others. Her recent books are onpopulation ageing and disaster management. Dr. Carlos continues to teach andis doing consultancy work with the Congress and other government agencies.She heads the Center for Political and Democratic Reform, Inc, a think tank.

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H.E. Ambassador Rosario G. ManaloGovernor for the Philippines, Asia-­Europe Foundation Board of GovernorsEuropean Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University

Ambassador Rosario Manalo is the Representative of the Republic of thePhilippines to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.She is the former Chairperson of the High Level Task Force for the ASEANHuman Rights Charter. She was also appointed as Special Envoy of thePresident of the Philippines to the ASEAN High Level Panel to negotiate theTerms of Reference (TOR) of the ASEAN Human Rights Body.

She was previously a Presidential Advisor and Special Envoy to Latin America.She was also appointed Undersecretary for International Economic Relationsfor the Department of Foreign Affairs and was variously the Ambassador toFrance, Portugal, Belgium & Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the European Economic Community. APermanent Delegate of the Philippines to UNESCO, she was later appointedChairwoman for of the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines. Shehas been serving as Philippine Representative to the Board of Governors of theAsia-­Europe Foundation (ASEF).

Ambassador Manalo has held the post of Chairwoman for the UN Committeefor the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the UN Commissionon the Status of Women in New York. Amb. Manalo is the first and only Filipinaso far to have chaired these two significant UN bodies dealing on women’sissues and concerns. Prior to this, she served as Commissioner of the NationalCommission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) in the Philippines.

She was the Chairperson of the European Studies Program in the Ateneo deManila University where she continues to teach. She has been lecturing atvarious universities in the Philippines for over 40 years. She has two Master ofArts degrees, in International Relations & Diplomacy and Public Administration,and three Bachelor of Arts degrees in Foreign Service, Law, and Science inJurisprudence. She is currently taking up her Doctoral Course in Socialdevelopment at the Philippine Women’s University.

Dr. Paul WangDepartment of World HistoryNankai University

Trained in world history, international studies and political science with anemphasis on East Asian Studies and International relations, Dr. Paul Wang hasteaching competence in modern and contemporary diplomacy -­ history andtheory, international relations in East Asia and foreign policy analysis. He hashad teaching experiences in Europe, United States and China. Since 2009, hehas been an adjunct professor teaching China’s foreign/security policy andinternational relations theory at the Institute of International Studies, JilinUniversity, China.

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Dr. Wang graduated from Nankai University with BA and MA in the field ofWorld History and International Affairs. He obtained his dual MAs in the field ofinternational studies and Asian studies at the University of Montana, USA andPhD in Political science with an emphasis on international security from theUniversity of Aberdeen, UK. He did a post-­graduate study in US Foreign Policyat the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University through theHarvard-­Yenching Fellowship.

Prof. Dr. David Javier Garcia CantalapiedraDepartment of International Law and International RelationsFaculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense deMadridASEFUAN

Dr. David Javier Garcia Cantalapiedra is an Associate Professor at theDepartment of Internacional Law and International Relations at theUniversidad Complutense de Madrid. He is also a Professo of US ForeignPolicy at the Spanish Foreign Service School, and a Visiting Professor at St.Louis University. Dr. Garcia Cantalapiedra is Co-­director and Professor at thesummer school, ”Asia in the XXI Century” at the Universidad Complutense deMadrid.

Aside from these teaching posts, he also serves as consultant for the SpanishArmy of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. He is served as consultant for NATOin Afghanistan in 2009 and was a member of the NATO informal WorkingGroup on NATO Deterrence Policy created by the US Defense ThreatReduction Agency and NATO Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate from 2007-­2011.

He was a Senior Researcher on US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relationsat the Real Instituto Elcano from 2007 to 2009 and was a UNISCI SeniorResearcher on US Foreign Policy (Unidad de Investigación sobre Seguridad yCooperación Internacional. Currently, he is also an Associate Researcher andDirector of the US Foreign Policy program at Benjamin Franklin Institute onAmerican Studies.

Some of his 2012 publications include Europa y EEUU en el siglo XXI.Psicologia y Política en las Relaciones Transatlánticas (with Ruben Herrero),Spain (with Damon Coletta), en Janne Haaland Matlary and Magnus Petersson(eds) Willing and Able? NATO’s European Allies, and “La Doctrina Obama", lateoría de la Guerra Limitada y la nueva política exterior de EEUU:¿ hacia unapolítica neo-­nixonana?".

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Dr. Mika AaltolaDirector, Global Security Research ProgramThe Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Dr. Mika Aaltola is currently working as the Programme Director of the GlobalSecurity Research Programme at the Finnish Institute of InternationalAffairs. He is also a professor at the University of Tallinn, Estonia. He haspreviously worked as an Academy of Finland Fellow and as a Visiting professorat the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He has worked as a visiting fellowat the Sciences Po (CERI) and Cambridge University.

His previous publications include Understanding the Politics of PandemicScares. An Introduction to Global Politosomatic, Routledge 2011, Spectacles ofGovernance and the Emergence of Humanitarian World Politics, Palgrave2009, Sowing the Seeds of Sacred: Political Religion of the American Era, Brill2008. He has published widely in the areas of crisis management, globalnetworks, U.S. and Finnish foreign policies, humanitarian emergencies,disaster management, and peace mediation. He established a program onPeace Mediation Studies at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

Ms. Hender GercioFormer President, University of the Philippines BabaylanASEFUAN

Hender Gercio is a member of ASEFUAN and participated in the 15th ASEFUniversity session on "Migration and Multicultural Societies." She is a memberand former president of UP Babaylan, the first and largest LGBT (lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender) student organization in the Philippines. She is also amember of the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines, the firsttransgender/transsexual rights advocacy group in the country. She obtainedher bachelors degree in European languages from the University of thePhilippines Diliman, and is currently pursuing a masters degree in philosophyat the same university.

Prof. Amparita Sta. MariaDirector, Urduja Women’s Rights DeskAteneo Human Rights Center, Ateneo de Manila School of Law

Professor Sta. Maria is the Director of the Women and Migrants Rights Deskand of Research, Education and Publication at the Ateneo Human RightsCenter. She has also been teaching Family law, Gender and the Law, HumanRights Law and Thesis Writing at the Ateneo de Manila School of Law, whereshe has also been serving as Thesis Director.

In 2004, she joined the Philippine Judicial Academy as Professorial Lecturer inInternational and Human Rights Law. She also served at the Sub-­Committeeon Training and Capacity Building, Committee on Gender Responsiveness inthe Judiciary of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She has been a Special

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Project Consultant for the International Labour Organization in InternalTrafficking in Children for the Worst Forms of Child Labor (ILO-­Manila, 2001);;and in the Study on the Legal Protection of Child Domestic Workers in AsiaPacific (2002, ILO Bangkok). She is listed in the database of the Bureau forGender Equality of the International Labour Office in Geneva as a specialist ingender-­related issues.

She was also a consultant for United Nations Economic and SocialCommission for Asia and the Pacific (2001, UNESCAP, Bangkok) in the use ofLegal and other Instruments to Combat Trafficking in Women and Childrenwithin the Asia-­Pacific Region, and was an Evaluation Consultant for UnitedNations Development Programme (UNDP) Philippines on StrengthenedCapacity of Institutions to Promote and Protect the Right to Development toinclude a Gender Perspective on Development.

Amparita de los Santos-­Sta. Maria graduated with honors from the Ateneo deManila University School of Law with a degree of Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.) in1982. In 2005, she obtained her Master of Laws degree at the University ofToronto where she was awarded a Reproductive Health Fellowship as part ofthe Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health Graduate Scholarships of theFaculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Atty. Raissa JajurieVice-­ChairpersonNisa Ul-­Haqq fi Bangsamoro (Women for Justice in the Bangsamoro)

Raissa has been in development work for most of her life, first as a labororganizer and then as a human rights lawyer. She holds the position ofMindanao Coordinator of the Alternative Legal Assistance Center (locallyknown as SALIGAN), an alternative law group working for the empowerment ofmarginalized groups and identities, including the workers, peasants, the urbanpoor, women and local communities.

Raissa hails from Mindanao, which is the ancestral domain of the Islamizednative inhabitants called the Moros. She is acting chair of a group of womenwho are working on gender issues in Muslim communities. Last year, shebecame a member of the Board of Consultants of the peace panel of the MoroIslamic Liberation Front (MILF), which has been engaged in a decolonizationstruggle for more about 4 decades.

She took up Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the Ateneo de ManilaUniversity, and Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines.

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Prof. Moner BajunaidCo-­Convenor, Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy

Prof. Bajunaid is the current corporate secretary and a co-­convenor of thePhilippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID), a non-­partisan, non-­profitorganization established in 2002 dedicated to the study of Islamic anddemocratic political thought and the search for peace, democracy anddevelopment in Muslim communities.

His previous posts include, among others: Secretary General of the NationalUlama Conference of the Philippines (NUCP), a network of Muslim religiousscholars;; Former Commissioner of the National Commission for MuslimFilipinos (NCMF);; Executive Director of the Mindanao Integrated NetworkDevelopment (MIND) Center in Cotabato;; and Project Coordinator for theEmpowering the Ulama Project of PCID with the UK embassy and TheNetherlands embassy.

Professor Moner holds a Master of Arts in Islamic Studies from theInternational Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan.

H.E. Ambassador Karel KovandaGovernor for the European UnionASEF Board of Governors

Ambassador Kovanda served as Deputy Director General of External Relationsin the European Commission from 2005-­2010, when he retired from theEuropean Union. His areas of responsibility included the European CommonForeign and Security Policy;; multilateral relations and human rights;; andrelations with Japan and Korea, Australia and New Zealand, North America,and other developed countries.

Ambassador Kovanda simultaneously served as the Commission's PoliticalDirector, both bilaterally and in the G8 context. In this role he was frequentlyinvolved in discussions with Asian countries, including China, Indonesia, India,Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

Prior to joining the European Commission, Ambassador Kovanda was a seniordiplomat in the Czech Foreign Service. He served as his country's ambassadorto NATO and the UN, including heading the Czech Delegation during its non-­permanent membership of the UN Security Council.

In the late 1970s, he spent two years in China working for Radio Beijing.

Ambassador Kovanda holds an undergraduate degree from the Prague Schoolof Agriculture, a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, and an MBA from Pepperdine University in California. He is fluentin Czech, English, Spanish, and French, and speaks Russian and German at aconversational level.

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He is married to Noemi, a native of Slovakia, and they have three children. Hisinterests include the theatre, reading, collecting stamps, and languages.

Prof. Miriam Coronel-­FerrerMember, Government of the Philippines Peace Panel with the Moro IslamicLiberation Front (MILF), Office of the Presidential Adviser on the PeaceProcessRepublic of the Philippines

Miriam Coronel Ferrer a professor at the Department of Political Science,University of the Philippines. At UP, she has held various executive positionssuch as Director of the Third World Studies Center and Convener of the UPProgram on Peace, Democratization and Human Rights. Prof. Coronel Ferrer isa member of the government panel appointed by President Aquino III in July2010 to negotiate with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

She has been involved in national and international peace, human rights anddisarmament campaigns such as the International Campaign to BanLandmines, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. She was also amember of the civil society-­led drafting committee for the PhilippineGovernment’s National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 onWomen, Peace and Security, and was one of 27 Filipinas among the 1,000Women for the Nobel Peace Prize nominated in 2005. Prof. Coronel Ferrerhas published journal and book articles on Philippine politics, civil society,armed conflicts, autonomy and peace processes, and served as visitingprofessor at Hiroshima University in Japan and the Hankuk University in SouthKorea. Before joining the government negotiating panel, she wrote a weeklyopinion column for www.abs-­cbnnews.com, the news website of ABS-­CBN.

Ms. Sarah QueblatinArt Facilitator, Community Artist

Sarah Queblatin is a multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of art andadvocacy for the last 11 years. She has co-­created with organizations workingin the fields of cultural heritage, environment, post-­disaster relief, and interfaithdialogue in integrating creative approaches in campaigns, workshops,programs, and events.

She sits in the International Advisory Council of BuildaBridge International, aglobal organization providing transformative arts services in disaster, conflict,and poverty stricken places around the world. Currently, she is taking up herMasters in Expressive Arts for Conflict Transformation at the EuropeanGraduate School in Switzerland specializing in sacred, traditional, and earthbased art forms for psycho social support, peacebuilding, and ecologicalrestoration.

She is currently transitioning from city life to being part of Maia Earth Village,an intentional community based in Palawan, Philippines to learn and practice

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ecovillage living and transition town initiatives. While communing with nature,she will be developing modules based on creation myths, earth basedelements, and the sacred art of circles (mandalas) for interfaith and interculturaldialogue, arts relief, and ecological healing. These modules will be used for anupcoming peace art program for a children's museum and for future arts reliefand community rebuilding projects.

Atty. Marlon J. ManuelNational Coordinator, Alternative Law Groups, Inc.

Marlon Manuel is the Coordinator of the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), acoalition of twenty (20) non-­government organizations in the Philippines thatadhere to the principles and values of alternative or social development-­oriented law practice. These organizations have distinct programs for legalassistance that is focused on the pursuit of public interest, respect for humanrights, and promotion of social justice. He is currently the Vice-­Chairperson forthe Basic Sectors of the National Anti-­Poverty Commission (NAPC).

Atty. Manuel has one and a half decades of experience in social justice andhuman rights lawyering. He has deep involvement in justice and human rightseducation, not only as a law school professor, but also, and more extensively,as a grassroots community educator, continuously practicing and advocatingthe principles of education for people empowerment as he work with farmers,workers, and other vulnerable groups. He has combined his education activitieswith his involvement in strategic litigation on public interest issues. He is alsoactively involved in policy reform work on social justice and human rightslegislation, and in justice system reform work, especially on improving accessto justice by the poor.

Ms. Mia Theresa Quiaoit-­CorpusExecutive Director, Conflict Resolution Group Foundation, Inc.

Mia received her first training in mediation under the CoRe Group in 2004 afterhaving retired at a very early age from the corporate world where she wasPresident of an information technology company. She carries with her over 8years of experience in project management of various Alternative DisputeResolution (ADR) programs from training, research, framework designconsultancy and policy creation. Being one of the most experienced ADRpractitioner in the country, she spearheaded mediation programs at theDepartment of Justice, Office of the Ombudsman, Commission on HumanRights, Department of Trade & Industry, Department of Education and manymore. She served as a consultant for the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman(CAO) of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Previous to this,she worked with the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority as member of thePromotions and Marketing team.

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She received her degree from the Global Masters of Arts Program inInternational Affairs of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of TuftsUniversity. She also completed her MBA from the University of thePhilippines. She served as Executive Director of the CoRe Group since 2006.

Prof. Nathalie VercelesUniversity of the Philippines College of Social Work and CommunityDevelopment

Nathalie A. Verceles, or Natsy, is an Assistant Professor of the Department ofWomen and Development Studies, College of Social Work and CommunityDevelopment, University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches Genderand Economic Development, The History and Perspectives of Gender andDevelopment, Feminist Theories, Women and Work, and supervises field workstudents. She has a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Women and Developmentfrom the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and a BSc (Honours) inEconomics from the University of London. She is a candidate for the degreeDoctor in Social Development at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

Prof. Virginia Bonoan-­DandanUnited Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and InternationalSolidarity

Professor Virginia Bonoan-­Dandan is an internationally recognized expert oneconomic, social and cultural rights. She served as Member of the UnitedNations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the treaty bodythat monitors the International Covenant on Economic, Social and CulturalRights (ICESCR), for 20 years from 1990 to 2010, and as the Chairperson ofthe Committee for eight years from 1999 to 2007. To date, she has been theonly woman to be Chairperson of the Committee. She is now the UnitedNations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity.

Her continuing human rights work as an educator, trainer, researcher andethnographer spanning all levels of engagement from the international to thenational levels, in particular at the grassroots, is marked by her consistentadvocacy for human rights in development. Prof. Dandan is currentlydeveloping conceptual frameworks and planning the groundwork on humanrights and international solidarity, the gender implications of the right tointernational solidarity, human rights and sexual and reproductive health,human rights and climate change, economic, social and cultural rights indisaster situations (including in disaster preparedness and risk reduction,management , and post-­disaster reconstruction), economic, social and culturalrights in development practice, and integrating human rights learning in schoolscurriculum.

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Prof. Dandan obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts, cum laude, and Master ofArts in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines. She is currently takingher Doctoral Studies Social Development. From 2001 to 2007, she served asDean of the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines. Shecontinues her professional activities as an exhibiting artist.

Ms. Neles TebayRector, Fajar Timur School of Philosophy and Theology, Papua, IndonesiaCoordinator, Papua Peace Network

Ms. Angela L. ChamosAssociate Professor for the Department of Legal Studies, Political and SocialSciences;; Associate Professor for the Department of Business EconomicsSaint Louis University, Baguio City

Mr. Ryan Israel Torres AdvinculaResearcher, Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration

Ryan Israel T. Advincula is currently enrolled at the College of Social Work andCommunity Development in the Diliman campus of the University of thePhilippines under the Graduate program Master of Community Development.He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication from the sameuniversity.

He previously worked as a Project Officer for The Forum for Family Planningand Development, a not-­for-­profit organization focused on advancing thereproductive health rights of Filipino women. He also worked as Researcher fora current affairs program which aired on television network TV 5.

Currently, he is connected with Eastern Regional Organization for PublicAdministration (EROPA) as a Researcher. Based in the Philippines, theOrganization is an online regional center of the United Nations.

Believing in the spirit of volunteerism, Ryan has volunteered time and again towork with inmates, farmers, fisher folk, as well as the urban poor. He enjoys

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mountain climbing and kickboxing.

CLOSING REMARKS

Fr. Jose M. Cruz, S.J., PhD.Vice President for University and Global RelationsAteneo de Manila University

Fr. Cruz is the Vice-­President for University and Global Relations of the Ateneode Manila University. Prior to his appointment as Vice-­President early thisyear, he was the Dean of the School of Social Sciences for twelve years. He isalso the current Director of the Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowship Program.He is a historian with an undergraduate degree from the Ateneo de ManilaUniversity, masteral and doctoral degrees from Cornell University.

MODERATORS

Mr. Pim van LoonPresident, ASEFUAN

Pim holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master's degree inInternational Relations, both from the University of Amsterdam. He conductedpart of his studies at the Hong Kong University and he was an associate atGlobal Policy Forum, a research oriented NGO based in New York City. Afterhis studies Pim entered the Dutch National Government where he has beenworking for the Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Ministry ofForeign Affairs. In 2009, Pim participated in the 15th ASEF University at theWoosuk University in Korea. He has been an active member of ASEFUAN eversince.

Dr. Laurent FrideresSenior Consultant, Clustering and Economic Development, PwC LuxembourgAffiliated Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of CambridgeASEFUAN

Laurent Frideres is a consultant for clustering and economic development atPwC Luxembourg. He is currently working on the European ClusterObservatory project for the European Commission Directorate-­General forEnterprise and Industry. Before joining PwC, Laurent was a university lecturerin economic geography at the University of Cambridge, where he remains anaffiliated lecturer at the Department of Geography and a Bye-­Fellow of Girton

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College. His research interests include regional economic development,industrial clusters and transnational knowledge networks. From 2001 to 2003Laurent was based at the Asia-­Europe Foundation in Singapore, where he wasin charge of educational exchanges including the ASEM Education Hub andthe ASEF University programme. He organised the first meetings of the ASEFUniversity Alumni Network in 2002, served as the network’s president afterleaving ASEF and remains actively involved in the network and its projects. Inthe aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2005, Laurent worked as a GISOfficer for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of HumanitarianAffairs in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. He was a Director of London-­based RosettaTranslation from 2007-­2010.

Laurent obtained his PhD in economic geography from the University ofCambridge. He also has an MA in Pacific Asian Studies from the School ofOriental and African Studies in London and an MPhil in GeographicalInformation Systems and Remote Sensing from the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Marissa Maricosa A. PaderonDirectorEuropean Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University

Marissa Maricosa A. Paderon is currently the Director of the European StudiesProgram. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of thePhilippines at Los Banos;; and completed her Master's and Doctoral degree inEconomics at the Ateneo de Manila University. She is a trade economist andhas been teaching with the Department of Economics and the EuropeanStudies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University for 15 years. Prior to herteaching, she was a Supervising Tariff Specialist at the Philippine TariffCommission, where she worked for almost eleven years.

Dr. Marita Concepcion C. GuevaraProfessorDepartment of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ateneo de Manila University

Marita Concepcion Guevara or Marichi, for short – teaches gender studies andresearch methods with the Ateneo de Manila University's Department ofInterdisciplinary Studies, where she is an assistant professor. With anundergraduate degree in Literature (in English) from the Ateneo, and masteraland doctoral degrees in Sociology from the Ateneo and the University of thePhilippines-­Diliman, she straddles the Humanities and Social Sciences, andhas taught with the English, Filipino, Interdisciplinary Studies, and SociologyDepartments, as well as with the Development Studies and Health SciencesPrograms of the Ateneo. As a social researcher, she has been affiliated withthe Ateneo's Institute of Philippine Culture where she has conducted researchfor the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Ford Foundation, and UNICEF.Her research interests include popular culture, urban poverty and informalsettlements, children and youth, and women and gender. Her main advocacyfor many years now has been getting the Reproductive Health Bill passed in

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Congress and signed into law;; hopefully, that will happen this 2012.

Dr. Alma O. SalvadorChairpersonPolitical Science Department, Ateneo de Manila University

Alma Maria O. Salvador is an Assistant Professor of political science andinternational relations at Ateneo de Manila. Her research specialization isin environmental security, security sector reform and participatory governance.She has a masters degree in international studies which she obtained from thePolitical Science Department of the University of the Philippines and adoctorate in development studies awarded by the Political Science Departmentof De La Salle University in Manila. As a co-­convenor of the Working Group inSecurity Sector Reform of ADMU Department of Political Science, shehas worked with her colleagues in addressing issues of defense modernizationand reforms of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Dr. Luis F. DumlaoChairpersonDepartment of Economics, Ateneo de Manila University

Luis Dumlao is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department ofEconomics, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University. Hereceived his PhD in Economics from Fordham University. He is an alumnus ofCAPORDE (Cambridge Advanced Program on Rethinking DevelopmentEconomics) and was recipient of Erasmus Mundus Mobility with host Universityof Warsaw. His research interest is Macroeconomics and InternationalFinancial Economics.

Dr. Cristina J. MontielProfessorPsychology Department, Ateneo de Manila UniversityEditor, Peace Psychology in Asia

Cristina Montiel is a professor of peace/political psychology and has beenteaching at the Ateneo de Manila University for more than 30 years. She is therecipient of the 2010 Ralph White Lifetime Achievement Award from theAmerican Psychological Association’s Division of Peace Psychology. Duringthe Marcos dictatorship, she founded and chaired Lingap Bilanggo (Care forPrisoners), a social movement for the general amnesty of all Filipino politicalprisoners. She likewise coordinated grassroot seminars on structural change,for various prodemocracy movements. Montiel is an internationally-­renownedscholar in peace psychology. She is managing editor of the Encyclopedia ofPeace Psychology (Wiley-­Blackwell), and editor of the volume on PeacePsychology in Asia (Springer). Her recent journal publications includeIntergroup Positioning in the Political Sphere: Contesting the Social Meaning ofa Peace Agreement (2011), and Social Representations of Democratic

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Transition (2010).

Mr. Andreas WieseExecutive Committee, ASEFUANUniversity of Oxford

Andreas Wiese just graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master ofStudies in Global and Imperial History. His main research interest lies in EastAsia. Before, he spent one year on exchange at Peking University in Beijingstudying Mandarin, as part of his undergraduate studies in comparative Asianand European law, economics, history and politics at the Europe-­Asia Campusof Sciences Po Paris. Andreas has been an active member of ASEFUAN andis part of the Executive Committee 2011/12.

RAPPORTEURS

Mr. Dinesh SathisanInternational Defense Policy Officer, Ministry of Defense, SingaporeASEFUAN

Dinesh Sathisan attended the 11th ASEF University (AU11) in Paris in 2005and has since been an active ASEFUAN member. He has interned at the Asia-­Europe Foundation (ASEF) in 2005 and went on to serve in the ASEFUANExCo from 2006 to 2007. Dinesh works in the area of defence diplomacy forthe Singapore government. He holds a Masters in History from the NationalUniversity of Singapore.

Dr. Nikki Briones-­Carsi CruzDepartment of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ateneo de Manila UniversityASEFUAN

Dr. Nikki Briones -­ Carsi Cruz currently teaches Theories of Nonviolence withthe Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Ateneo de Manila University. Priorto this, she was Vice-­Chair of the Political Science Department at De La SalleUniversity Manila. She completed her MA in Peace and Development Studiesat Universitat Jaume I in Spain, and her PhD in Southeast Asian Studies at theNational University of Singapore. Her dissertation, a peace research project onthe Moro-­Moro, a form of theater premised on warring Christians and Muslims,was awarded Best Thesis in the Social Sciences and Humanities at NUS in2011.

Nikki attended the 1st ASEF Summer School in Germany in 1998. She waselected ASEFUAN's first president in 2002. She headed the organization forthree years, until the 3rd AGM in Singapore in 2004. She took a long hiatus

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from ASEFUAN to pursue her doctorate, and to start a family. She marriedOliver Carsi Cruz in 2008 and gave birth to her daughter Narra in 2009, andson Guijo in 2011.

Ms. Catherine CandanoResearch Scholar, Communications and New Media DepartmentNational University of SingaporeASEFUAN

Catherine Candano is responsible for Southeast Asia Strategic PartnershipDevelopment at Google Asia Pacific. In the past three years she has taughtNational University of Singapore students at the Department ofCommunications and New Media, where she was an ASEAN FoundationResearch Scholar for her postgraduate studies. She has also professionallycontributed to regional civil-­society network-­building for over 40 countries withthe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Thailand.

Cathy was trained in Economics-­Honors and Communications from Ateneo deManila University, during which time she participated in the 12th Asia-­EuropeFoundation University. She continues to educate civil society and youth, andpublish her research on new media platforms and sustainability. Most recentlythat includes a chapter in the book, "The Economic, Social, Political Elementsof Climate Change," by Springer Verlag, Berlin, key elements of which hasbecome teaching material in English and Chinese Mandarin for World ClimateTeach-­In Day.

Ms. Cathy Pabalan-­FrideresDirector, Rosetta Translation LimitedVice-­President, ASEFUAN

Cathy Pabalan Frideres is Director of the London-­based RosettaTranslation Limited and currently serves as Vice President of theExecutive Committee of the ASEF University Alumni Network. Cathy beganher career in the public sector at the Philippine Department ofEducation, where she oversaw the Adopt-­a-­School Programme and acted aseducation liaison during negotiations between the Philippinegovernment and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. She joined thePeople-­to-­People Exchange team at the Asia-­Europe Foundation inSingapore in 2000, where she was responsible for education and youthexchanges and leadership development programmes until 2005. Prior toher move to the private sector, she was Project Consultant for theAsia Department at the British Museum, and worked on the firstAsia-­Europe Travelling Exhibition on portraiture.

Cathy has an undergraduate degree in European Studies from De La SalleUniversity and an M.A. in International Studies and Diplomacy from theLondon-­based School of Oriental and African Studies. She served asASEFUAN President in 2005/2006.

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Ms. Krystle WongInstitut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisExecutive Committee, ASEFUAN

Krystle Wong is currently pursuing a Dual Masters Degree in Journalism andInternational Economic Policy at Sciences Po Paris. Before, she completed herundergraduate studies at Sciences Po Paris's Europe-­Asia Campus in LeHavre, where she studied comparative European and Asian history, politicsand economics as well as French and Hindi. She is greatly interested in mediaand writing, with a tender spot for social issues.

Mr. Nick McIlroyShanghai Office, Bord Bia-­Irish Food BoardASEFUAN

FEATURED ARTISTS

Dr. Jaime ReisComposerASEFUAN

He started studying music at five in Seia with ethnomusicologist António Tillyand composing at 12. He concluded his degree in the University of Aveiro,where he studied Composition and Electronic Music with Isabel Soveral andJoão Pedro Oliveira. Finished a doctoral course in Social Sciences in FCSH,Universidade Nova de Lisboa where he's pursuing doctoral studies inEthnomusicology with Professors Salwa Castelo-­Branco and EmmanuelNunes.

Since 2003, he attended regularly the seminars of Gulbenkian Foundation withEmmanuel Nunes and the Stockhausen summer courses (Kürten). He wasgiven compositions prizes and received three prize scholarships at Universityof Aveiro for being one of the 25 top students and the best finishing his degreein that year. Since 2003, he's the artistic director of the Festival Dni MuzykiPortugalskiej w Krakowie and Dias de Música Electroacústica;; he regularly giveconferences in places such as Gulbenkian Foundation, Krakow MusicAcademy, Woosuk University – Korea, Keio University -­ Tokyo, SciencesPo -­

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Le Havre, Stockhausen Courses 2009, Darmstadt 2004;; researcher at INET -­md;; is co-­director and teaches in Conservatório de Música in Seia, InstitutoPiaget (Almada) and FCSH -­ Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

His music has been presented in Portugal, Poland, Turkey, France, Singapore,Germany, Belgium, etc. He was an invited composer in places such as Brasil(UNICAMP, UFBA, UFJF, UFMG);; Austria (Hörfest), etc. He also was residentcomposer at Visby International Centre for Composers (2007) and receivedcommissions from UFT/INATEL (premiered in Hong Kong and Taiwan), Grupode Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Logos Foundation (Belgium) andF.L.S.I. (Paris).

Ms. Joana GuerraViolin playerASEFUAN

Joana Guerra studied in ESART with Augusto Trindade and AlexandraTrindade and at EPABI with João Mendes. She also worked with professorssuch as Daniel Rowland, Ilona Sie Dhian Ho, David Frühwirth, Cármelo De LosSantos, Zofia Kuberska-­Woycicka and conductors like Roberto Perez, MarkTardue, Jan Dobrzelewski, Pedro Carneiro, Maur-­ izio Dini Ciacci and JeanSébastien Béreau. She played in several orchestras such as Lisbon FilmOrquestra, Esart Orchestra, Baroque Orchestra and Early Music Ensemble.

Among other activities, she is the Head Producer of Festival Days ofElectroacoustic Music, Photographer and Violin Professor in Conservatório deMúsica de Seia.