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Yayah Khisbiyah is associate professor of Psychology at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, and Founding-Director of the Study Center for Culture and Social Change. She engages in Board of Directors of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Muhammadiyah Central Board’s Bureau of International Relation and Cooperation, and International Network for Peace Psychologists. Previously she served as a Senior Expert at Presidential Working Unit for Pancasila, and Program Director of Center for Dialogue and Cooperation Among Civilisations. She received Fulbright for her Master at the University of Massachusetts, and UNESCO scholarships for conflict and peace studies at European Peace University-Austria and Uppsala University-Sweden. Ms. Khisbiyah is a peacebuilder specialist with over 20 years of experience—with communities, governments (e.g. France, NZAid, DFAT Australia, SIDA, USAid), regional bodies (EU, ASEAN), UN agencies (ILO, UNICEF, WHO), inter/national NGOs (e.g., Ford Foundation, Religions for Peace, KAICIID), and various academic institutions. Her work has engaged her in peacebuilding contexts across many countries in Asia, North and Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Pacific. She is committed to integrating her scholarship and activism in three main fields: psychology of peace, religions for just peace, and ecological holistic wellbeing.

Dr Muhidin joined Macquarie University in January 2011 as a lecturer in Demography at the Faculty of Business and Economics. Previously he was appointed as Postdoctoral and ResTeach Fellows at Queensland Centre for Population Research, the University of Queensland. He was involved in both research and teaching roles, especially with the Department of Human Geography for the last five years. Dr Muhidin came to Australia with a wide-ranging international experience, including placements in North America (Brown University and University de Montreal), Europe (Groningen University and IIASA-Austria), and Asia (University of Indonesia). Dr Muhidin is a demographer by training from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has actively been working on the study of population mobility issues and its consequences in different settings such as Asia (Indonesia), West Africa (Burkina Faso and Ghana) and Australia. Recently, Dr Muhidin involves in the study of international comparative analysis on internal migration. Early results of this study have contributed to the background research papers for the 2009 Human Development Reports, UNDP.

Dr. Mizan Bustanul Fuady Bisri (Mizan) is a JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow at UNU-IAS. He received a PhD and MA in political science from Kobe University (Japan) as well as an MSc and BSc in urban planning from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, Indonesia). Prior to joining UNU-IAS, he served as Disaster Monitoring and Analysis Officer at the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre). His research and professional interests range from disaster management, disaster education, humanitarian studies and humanitarian operations, climate change adaptation, and urban planning. As a young scholar, Dr. Bisri has published more than 15 research papers in academic journals or book chapters, most of which are available through Researchgate. Currently, he is exploring the networked politics of the science and policy nexus on disaster management and climate change adaptation in Southeast Asian countries through social network analysis, discourse network analysis, and various fundamental political science and public administration theories. He is also affiliated with Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) as a young scientist fellow and, in the past, was active in the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN-MGCY), which represents youth constituents in various UN-related processes.

Irfan Budi Pramono obtained his B.S degree in the Faculty of Geography Gadjah Mada University. He obtained MSc degree at College of Forestry and Natural Resource, Colorado State University, USA and Ph D degree at Environmental Science, Sebelas Maret University. He is a Principal Researcher at Watershed Management Technology Center, Solo. He has conducting research on watershed hydrology since 1985. Now, he is coordinating research on Water Resource Conservation under Forestry Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Environmental and Forestry.

Mohamed Seedat is Head of, and Professor in the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. Mohamed was until recently the Director of the South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit. His present research is focused on the social anatomy of public protests, grassroots cultures of peace and safety, and the psychologies underlying South Africa’s ongoing and renewed struggles for a decolonised caring society. As part of a commitment to epistemic justice, Mohamed explores convergences in multiple counter-hegemonic enactments of psychology, including African and Islamic psychologies. He has supported community-engaged research, the capacitation of next generation socially-engaged researchers and academic leaders, and the transformation of writing cultures in the academy. His body of work, inclusive of regional and international collaborations, contributes to cross-disciplinary compassionate emancipatory scholarship for the 21st century. Mohamed also writes about the meanings and enactments of emancipatory community practices and the messiness inherent to resisting exclusionary knowledge practices.

Fuad Nashori is associate professor in psychology based at Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) in Yogyakarta. Together with his colleague, Prof. Dr. Subandi from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Chairman of Islamic Psychology Association of Indonesian Psychological Association (HIMPSI) 2011-2020, Dr. Nashori is acknowledged as locomotive of Islamic psychology of Indonesia. Dr. Nashori is active in being a lecturer, researcher, writer, public speaker, and an organizer—especially related to Islamic psychology, social psychology, and research methods. He attained a doctorate degree from Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung as well as double master degrees from UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta for Faith and Philosophy degree, and from Universitas Gadjah Mada for Psychology degree. He acts as a lecturer, a supervisor, and an examiner in UNPAD, UGM, UIN Walisongo Semarang, UII Yogyakarta, and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. Many books of his that have been published cover psychology, marriage, parenting, and creativity. He actively conducts some research every year related to forgiveness for ethnicity, improving happiness, creative process, and cognitive behavior therapy. He had been involved in international conferences as well held in China, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur. Being so active, he also received some rewards and scholarships from UII, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, and the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education. He is a father of five children.

Lusi Nuryanti is a senior lecturer at Faculty of psychology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. Her topic of interests is in disaster risk reduction, community resilience, qualitative research, well-being, and community mental health. Her focused of research is on the contribution of culture into community resilience and disaster risk reduction.

Benina Gould received her Ph.D. in clinical Psychology from the Fielding Institute, receiving the Annual Social Justice Award. She was awarded a two-year Carnegie Avoiding Nuclear War Fellowship at the Belfer Center for International Studies at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. While at the Kennedy School and as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s center for Slavic and East European Studies she completed a major academic publication “Living in the question? The Berlin Nuclear Crisis Critical Oral History Project.” (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jh8h3qp). This followed many years of leading groups of psychologists to the former Soviet Union with the Track Two Citizens for Diplomacy project. At the present time Dr. Gould practices clinical psychology in Berkeley, California and teaches “Refugee, Trauma and Resiliency” as part of the Transformative Social Change Department at Saybrook University. She serves as a senior board member working with the Euro Center for the Study of Extremism (EuroCSE) in Cambridge, UK and recently presented papers on the “Psychology of Extremism” and “War, Trauma and Reconciliation” among Syrian refugees. Her Current research surveys the attitudes of religious and secular German and Turkish Muslim students in Münster, Germany. She believed that in the contexts of anti-Muslim and major refugee crisis, “voices” from all, especially youth, need to be heard more. Her major interest is in Social Justice, Pluralism and how to go Beyond Tolerance to be more inclusive of all religions.

Nisa Rachmah Nur Anganthi is associate professor in psychology with interests in clinical and forensic psychology, especially those related to the psycho-spiritual dimension. She started teaching at Faculty of Psychology Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta from 1994 until now. She also serves as an expert staff and visiting lecturer in the Study Program of Psychology at Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur (UMKT) Samarinda since 2017. Her research and community service focus on the problem of psycho-spiritual intervention, religious-spiritual diversity, and various themes of health psychology, positive psychology, and deviant or abnormal behavior. In addition, she also practices as professional psychologist and consultant at Kak Seto Homeschooling “Inclusion School” in Surakarta (2010-now), and at the Psychological Assessment and Consultation Bureau in the Faculty of Psychology, UMS (1994-now). She is currently completing a hand book of Personality Psychology based on Spiritual-Ilahiah "Asmaul Husna" as a form of religious as well as scientific responsibilities in education and teaching.