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Issue no. 1 | 2021

SHAPE-SEA launches ‘Elevating Critical Voices

on the State of Human Rights and Peace in the

time of Covid-19”

Edited by Joel Mark Barredo, Dr Khoo Ying Hooi, and Dr
BY DR KHOO YING HOOI
Herlambang P. Wiratraman, the book, “Southeast Asia,
Infected and Interrupted: Elevating Critical Voices on the
State of Human Rights and Peace in the Time of Covid-19”
features a total of 72 articles on topics covering all
Southeast Asian countries. Its publication was initiated by
the Strengthening Human Rights and Peace Research in
ASEAN/Southeast Asia Programme (SHAPE-SEA) in its
pursuit of increased knowledge on human rights and
peace and to promote academic-activism.

This project is one of the earliest initiatives by an
organisation to open its doors to anyone living in or
concerned about the situation in Southeast Asia to write
rapid assessments about the impacts of COVID-19 on any
human rights and peace issues. The pieces in this edited
book were selected from more than 100 articles featured
in that digital project. This project did not only allow for
knowledge building from the ground, but also facilitated
the growth of a community of knowledge frontliners. The
72 articles in this book represent voices from all 11
Southeast Asian countries and address issues related to
On 4 February 2021, in light of SHAPE-SEA’s sixth-anniversary
politics and democracy, gender and sexuality, vulnerable theme of “Shaping a Better Normal”, an edited collection of
selected think pieces entitled “Southeast Asia: Infected and
groups, technology and information, and public health
Interrupted: Elevating Critical Voices on the State of Human Rights
and wellbeing
and Peace in the Time of COVID-19”, was launched.

Alternative Solutions in

Facing Covid-19 as a
Systemic Crisis –

A Dialogue Across

Southeast Asia

BY DR KHOO YING HOOI

Co-organised by Fiskom, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana
(Salatiga, Indonesia), SEA-Junction (Bangkok, Thailand)
and Centre Asie du Sud-Est (Paris, France), this event
gathered social science researchers including Dr Khoo
Ying Hooi from the Department of International and
Strategic Studies to contemplate alternative solutions for
Southeast Asia through study cases in Thailand, Malaysia,
and Indonesia.

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