Contributors

Kamarulzaman Askandar Kamarulzaman Askandar is the Coordinator of the Research and Education for Peace at Universiti Sains Malaysia, where he is also an Associate Professor. He has been the Regional Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network (www.seacsn.net) since 2001. He received his PhD from the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He has written on issues of peace and conflict in the region including Our Culture of Peace (Penang: REPUSM & SEACSN, 2006), and ‘A r egional perspective of UN peacekeeping operations in Southeast Asia’, published in the Journal of International Peacekeeping (Spring 2005). He has also edited or co-edited a number of books including Understanding and Managing Militant Movements in Southeast Asia (Penang: SEACSN, 2005), The Mindanao Conflict (with Ayesah Abubakar; Penang: SEACSN, 2005), and Peacebuilding in Aceh: Lessons Learnt from Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland (with Ang Ming Chee; Bangkok: Forum Asia, 2005). He has been involved as an invited speaker or workshop facilitator in many peace- and conflict resolution-related programmes in the region. He is also interested in peace-building activities in the region, especially in Aceh, the southern Philippines and Southern Thailand. Rommel C. Banlaoi Rommel C. Banlaoi is the Executive Director of the Strategic and Integrative Studies Center (SISC). He was previously Professor of Political Science at the National Defense College of the Philippines where he served as Vice-President for Administrative Affairs and Assistant Vice-President for Research and Special Studies. He is the author and co-author of seven books to date, which include War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia (Manila: Rex Book Store International, 2004). His articles and book reviews have appeared in various book chapters and internationally refereed journals such as Contemporary Southeast Asia, Parameters, Naval War College Review, Asian Affairs, Southeast Asian Affairs, Indian Ocean Survey, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Intelligence and National Security. Peter Carey Peter Carey is Laithwaite Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Trinity College, University of Oxford, specializing in the modern history and pol- itics of contemporary Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia and East Timor. He is currently writing a biography of the Javanese prince, Pangéran

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Diponegoro (1785–1855), who led the last great revolt against the Dutch in Java known as the Java War (1825–30).This will be published by the Royal Institute for Anthropology and Linguistics in Leiden in 2007 under the title: Born Leader in Changed Times: Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855. Since 1999, he has been researching an oral history of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975–99) entitled ‘Survivors: East Timorese experiences of the Indonesian occupation’, which focuses on the Geração Foun (‘New Generation’), Timorese now in their late twenties and thirties who came of age in the 1975–99 period and for whom Bahasa Indonesia rather than Portuguese is their principal non- Timorese language. Peter is the author of East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation (London: Cassell, 1995). Renato Cruz De Castro Renato Cruz De Castro is a faculty of the International Studies Department, De La Salle University and the holder of the Dr Aurelio Calderon Professorial Chair of Philippine–American Relations. He earned his PhD from the Government and International Studies Department of the University of South Carolina as a Fulbright Scholar in 2001. He obtained his BA and two Masters degrees from the University of the Philippines. He has also worked as aResearch Fellow in the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1991 and 1995) and in the European Institute of Public Administration in the Netherlands(1989).Since1994,hehaswrittenseveralarticlesoninternational relations and security that have been published in a number of scholarly jour- nals and edited works in the Philippines, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. He is a colum- nist in the Manila Bulletin, contributing his insights on US foreign and defence policies as well as general strategic issues that affect the Philippines. He also conducts courses and delivers lectures in the Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines and in the National Defense College of the Philippines. Adam Dolnik Adam Dolnik is Senior Fellow and Director of Research Programs at the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Previously, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore, and as a researcher at the WMD Terrorism Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California and at the United Nations Terrorism Prevention Branch in Vienna. Dolnik regularly lectures for various governmental and non-governmental organizations and agencies around the world, and has also conducted field research on terrorist networks in conflict zones such as Afghanistan and the North Caucasus. His work has been published in a number of books and a variety of international journals, including

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Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, International Negotiation: Journal of Theory and Practice, Perspectives: Central European Review of International Affairs, Yaderny Kontrol. Greg Fealy Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian politics at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and the Faculty of Asian Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra. He gained his PhD from Monash University in 1998 with a study of the history of Indonesia’s largest Islamic party, recently published in Indonesian under the title Ijtihad Politik Ulama: Sejarah NU, 1952–67. He is the co-author of Joining the Caravan? The Middle East, Islamism and Indonesia (2005), and Radical Islam and Terrorism in Indonesia (2005). He is also co-editor of Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2006), Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation (2003) and Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditionalism and Modernity in Indonesia (1995). He was the C.V. Starr Visiting Professor in Indonesian Politics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, in 2003. Miriam Coronel Ferrer Miriam Coronel Ferrer is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines (UP), and Convener of the Program on Peace, Democratization and Human Rights of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies. She has written various articles on the Philippine armed conflicts (Moro and communist insurgencies), peace processes and peace-building. She is also involved in various peace, dis- armament and humanitarian law campaigns nationally and internationally. Rohan Gunaratna Rohan Gunaratna is Head, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore; Senior Fellow Alumnus, Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and Honorary Fellow, International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Israel. He designed the UN Database on the Mobility, Weapons and Finances of Al Qaeda, Taliban and its Associates. He is author of ten books including Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press, New York). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK, he is a former Chair of the NATO-PfP (Partnership for peace) Working Group on Counter Terrorism. Syed Serajul Islam Syed Serajul Islam is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He

Andrew T.H. Tan - 9781847207180 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 05:16:49PM via free access Contributors xi received his PhD from McGill University and taught at McGill University, International University in Malaysia, and the University of Dhaka. He was a visiting Fulbright Scholar in 1988 at the University of Iowa. He has pub- lished eight books and nearly 70 articles in internationally refereed jour- nals. His recent book, The Politics of Islamic Identity in Southeast Asia published in 2004, has drawn worldwide attention. Gary Yia Lee Gary is a Hmong born in Laos, but has lived in Australia since 1976. He obtained his PhD in social anthropology from Sydney University in 1981, following undergraduate and graduate studies in social work from the University of New South Wales. He has worked for Indochinese refugees since their resettlement in Australia in 1976 and taught for a number of years in various Australian tertiary institutions. He was most recently a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 2006, he was a Visiting Professor to the Center for Hmong Studies, Corcordia University, St Paul, Minnesota. He currently works as a multilingual welfare coordinator with the Cabramatta Community Center in Sydney. Gary has researched the Hmong for the past 25 years and has published books and papers on various aspects of the global Hmong community, including their involvement in the civil war in Laos and their ongoing resistance against the government there. Elina Noor Elina Noor graduated in law from Oxford University and obtained an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science with distinction, winning the Georg Swarzenberger Prize as well as the Higgins Prize in Public International Law. She also holds an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University. She has vol- unteered at Interights, a legal human rights NGO based in London, and worked on WMD terrorism at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Washington, DC. After a stint as a Research Assistant for the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World within the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, she is back as an Analyst with the Bureau of Foreign Policy and Security at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia where she started out. Elina’s work includes published chapters in the Asia-Pacific Security Outlook series (2002–2005) and in Terrorism in the Asia-Pacific: Threat and Response, edited by Rohan Gunaratna. Elena Pavlova Elena Pavlova is a graduate of Harvard University. She worked as a ter- rorism research analyst at the Investigative Project, Washington, DC, where

Andrew T.H. Tan - 9781847207180 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 05:16:49PM via free access xii A handbook of terrorism and insurgency in Southeast Asia she focused on analysing the emerging traits among Middle East terrorist groups. She joined the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she worked as Research Manager for the Asia-Pacific terrorism database programme and the Ideological Response to Terrorism project at the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. She is now Associate Research Fellow on the Political Islam programme. She is a specialist in radical ideo- logy and has written numerous articles, including a chapter contribution in The Changing Face of Terrorism, edited by Rohan Gunaratna. Thitinan Pongsudhirak Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. Currently Director of its Institute of Security and International Studies and a former Deputy Dean of the Political Science Faculty at Chulalongkorn, he has authored a number of articles and book chapters on Thailand’s pol- itics, political economy, foreign policy, and the role of the media in democ- ratization, as well as ASEAN security and economic cooperation. He was educated at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His PhD thesis at the London School of Economics, which focused on the political economy of Thailand’s economic crisis in 1997, was awarded the United Kingdom’s Best Dissertation Prize in Comparative and International Politics and Thailand’s National Research Council Dissertation Prize in Political Science. Paul A. Rodell Paul A. Rodell is Associate Professor of Southeast and East Asian History at Georgia Southern University. He served in the Philippines with the US Peace Corps and did MA work at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines. He has published relevant articles and chapters in Southeast Asian Affairs (2002 and 2004), Terrorism and Transnational Violence in Southeast Asia (2005), Bulletin of the American Historical Collection (January 2004), Revolutionary Movements in World History (2006) and The Encyclopedia of Modern Revolutions (forthcoming). In 2002, he authored Culture and Customs of the Philippines (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press) and in 2000, he edited a special issue on Southeast Asia for the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.From 1996 to 2002, he served as Executive Director of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Badrus Sholeh Badrus Sholeh is Head of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Deputy Director of the Study Program of International Relations, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

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(ANU) Canberra and wrote his thesis entitled Ethno-Religious Conflict and Reconciliation: Muslim and Christian Relationship in Ambon (March, 2003). He has published research papers on conflict, peace-building and political Islam in academic journals and national newspapers, and partici- pates actively in international conferences. Martin Smith Martin Smith is a political analyst specializing in Burmese and ethnic minor- ity affairs. He is author of Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity (Zed Books, 1991 and 1999), Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights (ASI, 1994) and Burma (Myanmar): The Time for Change (Minority Rights Group International, 2002). Other recent publications include ‘Army politics as a historical legacy: the experience of Burma’, in K. Koonings and D. Kruijt (eds), Political Armies: The Military and Nation Building in the Age of Democracy (Zed Books, 2002), and ‘Burma: the Karen conflict’, in J. Rudolph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts (Greenwood Press, 2003). Andrew T.H. Tan Andrew T.H. Tan is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales – Asia. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield, UK, and was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore. He was educated in Singapore, Cambridge and Sydney. His advice on regional security issues is much sought after by governments, corporations, universities, research institutes and the media. His many monographs, book chapters, journal articles and book reviews have appeared in leading refereed academic journals such as Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Contemporary Security Policy, Panorama, Contemporary Southeast Asia, International Affairs, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Harvard Asia Quarterly and Asia-Pacific Review. He has also written, edited or co-edited nine books. His recent sole-authored book, Security Perspectives of the Malay Archipelago: Security Linkages in the Second Front in the War on Terrorism, published by Edward Elgar publishing, has been described by Professor Stephen Walt, Dean of Harvard’s JFK School, as ‘a major contribution to our understanding of regional security’, and by Shigekatsu Kondo, Executive Director, National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, as ‘a superb navigator for us to cope with this turbulent region’. Another of his sole-authored books, A Political and Economic Dictionary of South-East Asia, published by Europa – Taylor & Francis, UK, is a definitive guide to the region. He is also editor of The Politics of Terrorism (London: Europa

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/ Routledge, 2006), which contains contributions by some of the world’s leading terrorism experts, as well as his own substantive study (which occu- pies half the volume) of major terrorism incidences and groups. His sole- authored book, Southeast Asia: Threats in the Security Environment, published by Marshall Cavendish, contains his collected papers and arti- cles on this subject. His edited volume, The Politics of Maritime Power (Routledge), which contains contributions by some of the world’s leading maritime experts, is forthcoming in 2007.

James Veitch James Veitch is Associate Professor in the Strategic Studies Program in the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where he coordinates the teaching of courses in counter-terrorism, intelli- gence studies and transnational crime, and teaches a course on diplomacy and religion. Concurrently he is establishing a specialist research programme in security and intelligence studies. Prior to taking up this appointment in the School of Government he taught for many years in the Religious Studies Program at the same university.He has also lived and taught in both Indonesia and Singapore. He specializes in the study of religious conflict, particularly in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and is involved in studies of religion and terrorism. He has taught courses on the interface between human vio- lence (including terrorism and revolution) and religion, and on Islam and Christianity in contemporary culture. He keeps up his long-time interest in the origins and early history of Christianity and is a fellow of the California- based Jesus Seminar. He is also the New Zealand Co-Chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) and is the New Zealand Co-Chair on the Steering Committee of CSCAP International for 2006–2008.

Philips J. Vermonte Philips J. Vermonte is a Researcher at the Department of International Relations, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta since 2001. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Paramadina University, Jakarta, and teaches international rela- tions theory and military issues in developing countries. He received his Masters degree in international studies from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2001. The title of his thesis is Democratisation and Foreign Policy: The Case of Indonesia. He has written numerous articles in various newspapers and academic journals, and presented papers in many confer- ences. He is also actively involved in Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Transnational Crime. He is also currently a member of Working Group on Papua.

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