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 viii Andrew T.H. Tan - 9781847207180 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 05:16:49PM via free access Contributors ix 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 Andrew T.H. Tan - 9781847207180 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 05:16:49PM via free access x A handbook of terrorism and insurgency in Southeast Asia 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