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Stein Tønnesson is the Director of the Toda Peace Institute. He is research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and associate editor for Asia in the Journal of Peace Research.

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Dr. Kevin Clements is Honorary Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Toda Peace Institute. He is focused on the thematic area of “Managing Nuclear Risk in North East Asia". He was Director of Toda Peace Institute from 2017 to 2025.

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Dr. Keith Krause is Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute, where he is responsible for the programme on cooperative security and disarmament. He is Professor of International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Director of its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP). He is also...

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Kai He is Professor of International Relations at the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia. He served as a non-resident Senior Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (2022-2023), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017-2020), and a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009-2010)

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Dr. Lisa Schirch is Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute where she directs the Institute’s “Social Media, Technology and Peacebuilding” programme. Dr. Schirch is Richard G. Starmann Sr. Chair and Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

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Olivia Stokes Dreier is a Senior Research Fellow for Toda Peace Institute on Global Challenges to Democracy. She is currently a Senior Peacebuilding Advisor to Karuna Center for Peacebuilding where she served for many years as Executive Director...

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Janani Vivekananda is Toda Peace Institute’s Senior Research Fellow for Climate Change and Conflict. She is also the Head of Programme, Climate Diplomacy and Security at adelphi, Berlin. Her work involves leading participatory field research on community-level resilience to conflict and climate change, developing conflict-sensitive approaches to climate change risks, and increasing the capacity of...

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Carol Farbotko is cultural geographer who conducts research on Pacific places, mobilities and cultures in a changing climate. She is currently Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, leading a four-year project on Indigenous Solutions to Global Challenges in the Pacific...

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Dr. Volker Boege was Toda Peace Institute's Senior Research Fellow for Climate Change and Conflict until September 2024. Dr. Boege has worked extensively in the areas of peacebuilding and resilience in the Pacific region.

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Dr. Sverre Lodgaard has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) since 2007, after serving 10 years as director.

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Dr. Hugh Miall is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent, and Chair of the Conflict Research Society. He has been Research Director of the Oxford Research Group, Director of the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, a Research Fellow in the ...

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Dr. Ramesh Thakur is a former Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute where he was responsible for the programme on cooperative security and disarmament. Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy in Canberra, he has previously served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Senior Vice Rector of the UN University in charge of its Peace and Governance Programme; and Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the Australian National University.

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