Fareeda Panjor is a researcher and lecturer at the Center for Conflict Studies and Cultural Diversity at the Prince of Songkla University's Pattani Campus. She is a co-researcher on the Peace Survey in Thailand’s Deep South and is conducting research supported by European Commission on inclusive peace-building in the southern provinces. Fareeda also works with women's civil society groups to empower women's peace and security agenda in Thailand’s Deep South. She previously worked with the Asian Muslim Action Network to promote inter-faith and peace through the media. She holds a master’s degree from Chulalongkorn University of Thailand. 

IVLP Impact Award Project: Training Local Women on Data Collection and Documentation in Southern Thailand’s Conflict

This project brought together 60 women from local organizations in the Pattani, Yala, Narathiwas and Songkla provinces to address how conflict analysis and research methodologies provide the evidence necessary for advocating and promoting the rights of marginalized communities in conflict areas. The training was designed in collaboration with experts chosen by the Conflict Studies and Cultural Diversity Institute for Peace Studies at the Prince of Songkla University. Participants learned about research methodologies, data collection and documentation. The training taught women the skills of conducting target-group interviews and initial statistical  and provided the women with skills to research issues that have not received significant local, national or international attention, using a human-rights lens, with anti-discrimination, gender equality and sexual equality as a framework for analysis.

"This project opened an opportunity for women to come out and speak the truth." - Project Participant

IVLP Exchange Experience

Fareeda participated in the IVLP Project A Global Moment in Time: Peace and Justice, organized by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State Office of International Visitors program branch in New York City, WorldBoston, Georgia Council for International Visitors, Global Ties Detroit, International Citizen Diplomacy of Los Angeles, Global Minnesota, San Diego Diplomacy Council, Tulsa Global Alliance, World Affairs Council of Kentucky & Southern Indiana, and World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.

Fareeda's exchange experience led to the development of her IVLP Impact Award Project: "IVLP is the best program for global peace activists to learn, share and implement peacebuilding."

U.S. Communities Visited Virtually 

Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; Louisville, KY; Boston, MA; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; New York City, NY; Tulsa, OK; Philadelphia, PA

Country: Thailand

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