TFF Associate, Professor Chaiwat Satha-Anand has died at 69: Professor of nonviolence who opened path to peace in Thailand
Noblest and kindest among – and for – humanity. TFF Associate since 1991 and a dear friend of Christina and me since before that, a great scholar of nonviolence, a mediator and a Muslim in the 94% Buddhist Thailand.
We worked together for decades in IPRA, the International Peace Research Association, as teachers in Italy at IUPIP and throughout the decades at TFF, where we have published many of Chaiwat’s deeply insightful peace research analyses.
His death is a great loss to true peace research, but his legacy will remain with all of us in this academic field.
Years ago, Chaiwat invited me to a conference in Bangkok, but not only that. He told me that he thought I worked too hard and needed to relax a bit, so, consequently, he had reserved a room for me at a resort place on the coast for a few days (everything paid for). Such was he, the warm-hearted man.
We last corresponded when he signed the TFF statement on the genocide in Gaza in December 2023 – at the time he knew that his death was approaching.
We offer our love and hearty support to his beloved Suwanna in these difficult times.
Here are some of his writings for TFF:
And here are some obituaries:
Institute for Integrated Transitions
International Movement for a Just World
