The Lahad Datu Imbroglio: The Sabah Claim and Beyond 22 March 2013, 9.30-11.

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Guest Speakers: Mohamad Abu Bakar, University of Malaya Mohamad Abu Bakar was formerly Head of the Department of International and Strategic Studies,University of Malaya, where he currently teaches Malaysia's Foreign Policy. He was Tun Abdul Razak Chairholder with the Centre for International Studies, Ohio University, 2005-2007. His other engagements abroad included: Visiting Professor, La Plata National University, Argentina; Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Enland; Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Washington,U.S.A; and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies; Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand. Mohamed Abu Bakar has made more than 300 presentations and is author of more than 150 publications. His writings and interviews have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Indonesian ,Japanese, Spanish and Filipino Harry Roque Jr., University of the Philippines Harry Roque Jr. was Director of the University of the Philippines Law Centre Institute of International Legal Studies. He is the Chairperson of the Centre for International Law, a nongovernmental organisation that seeks to promote the binding nature of international law to the Philippine legal system, and avail of existing international remedies to enforce and implement Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. Harry is admitted to practice before the International Criminal Court, the first Asian to do so, and the UN War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda. He is also elected to the Governing Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the International Criminal Bar. D.S. Ranjit Singh, University Utara Malaysia D.S. Ranjit Singh is currently serving as Visiting Professor at the College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah. From 1973 to 2004 Ranjit served with the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya in various positions. Since 2006, Ranjit has been attached to the School of International Studies (SoIS), Universiti Utara Malaysia. His areas of specialization include Malaysian History (Sabah and Sarawak); Political History of Southeast Asia especially Brunei; International Relations; and Strategic Studies. He was consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia and was the

leader of the team which prepared the historical evidence for Malaysias case at the International Court of Justice pertaining to its sovereignty over Pulau Sipadan and Pulau Ligitan in which Malaysia was eventually awarded sovereignty over the two islands in 2002. Julkipli Wadi, University of the Philippines Julkipli M. Wadi is Dean at the Institute of Islamic Studies of the University of the Philippines (UP), prior to this he served as College Secretary at the same institution and fellow of the UPCIDS Mindanao Studies Programme He is co-editor of Philippine External Relations: A Centennial Vista and author of several papers and conferences on political relations and Islamic thought. Julkipli has served as resource person for issues relating to the Insurgency in South East Asia and the Bangsamoro Struggle, among others.