International Roundtable

"The 'Global War on Terror' and its Implications for Muslim-Western Relations"

organized by the International Progress Organization in co-operation with the Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS)

at Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia Science University)

Penang, Malaysia, 13-14 December 2007

Speakers, from left to right:

Seated: Dr.  Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Director, Peace Information Center, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand; Lieutenant General (rtd) Jaime de los Santos (Philippines), Former Supreme Commander of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor;  Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President, International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Noordin Sopiee Professor of Global of Global Studies at Malaysia Science University, Penang, Malaysia; Dr. Hans Köchler (Austria), President of the International Progress Organization; Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv, emeritus Professor of International Relations and former Director of the Dept. of International Relations at the University of Ankara, Turkey; Dr. Joseph Camilleri, Professor and Director, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia.

Standing: Dr. Abdul Rashid Moten, Professor of Political Science and Editor, "Intellectual Discourse," at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM); Dr. Syed Farid Alatas, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore; Dr. Osman Bakar, emeritus Professor, Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Dr. Abdulhussein M. Kashim, Secretary-General, Philippine Muslim Solidarity Council, Mindanao, Philippines.

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