Parichart Suwanbubbha (THA)

is Professor for Buddhist Ethics and Vice Director of the Mahidol University Research Center for Peace Studies in Bangkok. As a Theravada Buddhist scholar she has developed concepts for education to peace and contemplation. Besides many aspects of Buddhist Ethics, her scientific work is on reconciliation processes in Bangkok, Indochina, in the South of Thailand and Myanmar. She received her PhD in Chicago and has been visiting scholar in many European Universities like Birmingham, Le Havre and Hamburg. Her most relevant publications are: Grace and Karma: A Case Study of Religio-Cultural Encounters in Protestant and Buddhist Communities in Bangkok and its relevant environs (Chicago 1994); Towards the Culture of Diversity and Communal Harmony (Bangkok 2004); Is Inter-religious Dialogue a Peace resolution? (Bangkok 2005); A Handbook on Dialog (Bangkok 2005); L’engagement du bouddhisme en Thailande (Paris-Geneva 2007); Religions and Modernization (Bangkok 2007).