President, International Movement For A Just World (JUST)
DR. CHANDRA MUZAFFAR is a Malaysian who for many years taught at universities in his country, while remaining active in NGO work.
A political scientist, his last academic position was Professor-cum-Director at the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya.
Apart from writings on civilisational dialogue, he has also published extensively on religion, human rights, Malaysian politics and international relations. He has authored or edited 19 books and written numerous articles in English and Malay in various local and international journals. His latest book is entitled "Global Ethic Or Global Hegemony?" (2005).
Dr Chandra also founded a multi-ethnic social reform group in 1977 called Aliran Kesedaran Negara (ALIRAN) (National Consciousness Movement) which sought to raise public awareness of issues pertaining to democracy and ethnic relations in Malaysia. Today, he is the President of an international NGO, the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), which is concerned about challenges to social justice and human dignity in global politics. JUST also attempts to develop guiding ideas on a just and compassionate civilisation based upon shared universal spiritual and moral values. Dr Chandra sits on the Board of a number of other international NGOs concerned with social justice and civilisational dialogue.
Among the academic awards Dr Chandra has received is The Harry J. Benda Prize for distinguished scholarship on Southeast Asia from the Association of Asian Studies, North America.
Dr Chandra is married to Mariam Mohd. Hashim and they have two daughters.
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