Fellows will regularly meet online before convening in person at Schloss Leopoldskron in June 2023
Salzburg Global Seminar and the Nippon Foundation are excited to welcome 60 new Fellows to the Asia Peace Innovators Forum.
They join after the successful convening of 90 Fellows of the Asia Peace Innovators Forum between 2020 and 2022. The sixty new Fellows, who completed a competitive application process, will meet regularly online between January and June 2023, and convene in person at Salzburg Global's home, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, in June 2023.
Together the group will build their collective leadership capacity by learning from each other and expanding ideas and ways of working to support peacebuilding in their local contexts. As the Asia Peace Innovators Forum progresses, Fellows will collaborate, formally and informally, to create new narratives around peace and conflict and to work towards institutional and societal change for peace.
Fellows from both iterations of the program will have the opportunity to meet and work together, allowing for cumulative impact from the work of the two groups.
The new Asia Peace Innovators Forum Fellows represent 16 countries from five geographic categories: three priority Asian countries (Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines), other south- and east-Asian countries, and relevant countries from the rest of the world.
The sixty new Fellows joining the Forum are:
- Navras Aafreedi, Assistant Professor (History), Presidency University, Kolkata, India
- Kaltumi Inya Abdulazeez, Founder, Ladies Empowerment Goals and Support Initiatives (LEGASI), Nigeria
- Jhabindra Prasad Adhikari, Project Coordinator, Forum for Protection of Public Interest (Pro Public), Nepal
- Kamilas Alexsanthar, Director, Pakalavan Media, Sri Lanka
- Akanchhya Aryal, Consultant, Amnesty International South Asia Regional Office, Nepal
- Ne Lynn Aung Aung, Research Director, Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security, Myanmar
- Garie Briones, National Programme Officer, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Philippines
- Maruf Chebueraheng, Director, Digital for Peace Foundation, Thailand
- Mellisa Dajay, Community Mobilizer, UN-Habitat, Philippines
- Dani Dani, Individual Specialist/International Consultant, Youth, Peace & Education, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development, India
- Quy Thi Ngoc Dinh, Senior Programs Manager CNCF, Vietnam
- Jovanie Espesor, Professor, Mindanao State University General Santos, Philippines
- Gelie Erika Esteban, Attorney V, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippines
- Nukila Evanty, Executive Director & Lecturer, Women Working Group (WWG) & University of Veteran Jakarta, University of Mahendradatta, Bali, Indonesia
- Nur Faridah, Senior Business Operations Manager, Ruangguru, Indonesia
- Byar Myar Gay, Project Manager, ACTED Myanmar, Myanmar
- Heira Hardiyanti, Board of Director, ICDS aka LSP2I, Indonesia
- Fredyl Hernandez, Senior Artist-Teacher Philippine Educational Theater Association, Instructor University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines
- Hang Hybunna, Head of Program, Partnership and Impact, Plan International Cambodia, Cambodia
- Raymond Hyma, Conflict Transformation Adviser, Women Peace Makers, Cambodia
- Ma. Laurice Jamero, Resilience Coordinator, Manila Observatory, Philippines
- Anju Jha, Chairperson, Mandwi, Nepal
- Kamal Kandel, Trustbuilding Program Manager, Initiatives of Change, Nepal
- Rohit Karki, Senior Project Officer, Asia-Pacific Unit, DCAF-Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance, Switzerland
- Surya Karki, Co-founder and Executive Director, United World Schools Nepal, Nepal
- Dana Yudha Kristiawan, Lecturer, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Banyuwangi Indonesia, Indonesia
- Watcharapon (Sia) Kukaewkasem, Founder and Senior clinical social worker, Freedom Restoration Project, Thailand
- Pratik Kunwar, Founder and Managing Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Nepal
- Alex Wen Jie Lew, Digital Marketer, Asia Internet Coalition, Singapore
- Afthon Lubbi, Program Manager, Center for The Study of Religions and Cultures (CSRC) State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Indonesia
- Khuzaimah Maranda, Executive Director, Thuma Ko Kapagingud Service Organization Inc., Philippines
- Melinda Martinus, Lead Researcher, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
- Kara Medina, Gender and Disaster Resilience Specialist, Philippines
- Ahamed Sanoon Meera Mohideen, Executive Director, FrameOut, Sri Lanka
- Wyclife Ong'eta Mose, Lecturer/Executive Director, Kenyatta University/Oasis Peace Web Organization, Kenya
- Rajendra Mulmi, Regional Director, Asia Search for Common Ground, Nepal
- Mochamad Mustafa, Program Director, The Asia Foundation Indonesia, Indonesia
- Yosuke Nagai, Founder and CEO, Accept International, Japan
- Neha Nair, Director, Global Trust & Safety, Radix TLD, India
- Mduduzi Ntuli, Educator & Development head, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, South Africa
- Himanshu Panday, Co-founder, Dignity in Difference, India
- Misni Parjiati, Community Organiser, Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial/Islamic and Social Studies Institute (LKIS), Indonesia
- Rachel Pastores, Managing Counsel, Public Interest Law Center, Philippines
- Kasun Pathiraja, Sri Lanka Country Coordinator, FHI 360, Sri Lanka
- Nirasha Piyawadani, Pinnawala Appuhamilage, Journalist/Programme Officer, Center for Media & Information Literacy, Sri Lanka
- Lihini Ratwatte, National Project Officer, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Sri Lanka
- Razcel Jan Salvarita, Founder – Director, Baryo Balangaw Creative Initiatives, Philippines
- Uthpala Dishani Senaratne, Founder/Project Director, Writing Doves, Sri Lanka
- Rina Shahrullah, Universitas Internasional Batam, Indonesia
- Bijay Shrestha, Head of Program, Japan International Support Program, Nepal
- Biplabi Shrestha, Programme Director, The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Malaysia
- Annu Singh, Consultant, TRI, India
- Sinath Sous, Grants Manager, Cambodian Living Arts, Cambodia
- Anna Christi Suwardi, Lecturer, General Education, School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
- Gaurav Thapa, Co-Founder & Managing Director, FINLIT Nepal, Nepal
- Trishna Thapa, Senior Program Officer, Nagarik Aawaz, Nepal
- Ayessa Tin, Programme Analyst, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Philippines
- Isti Toq'ah, Founder and Chairperson, PANDAI (Indonesia's Peace Education), Indonesia
- Nirmal Kumar Upreti, President, Forum for Nation Building Nepal, Nepal
- Kaush Weerakoon, Program Lead, Center for Development Research and Interventions, Sri Lanka
