Sorpong Peou

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Professor Faculty of Arts Department of Politics and Public Administration Toronto, Ontario speou@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 556602

Bio/Research

Dr. Sorpong Peou is a Full Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies. In addition to a PhD in International Relations and Comparative Politics from York University (Canada), he holds a...

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Bio/Research

Dr. Sorpong Peou is a Full Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies. In addition to a PhD in International Relations and Comparative Politics from York University (Canada), he holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Political Science from York University and a Bachelor of Arts - Honours (BA - Hon) in Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Waterloo (Canada).

Dr. Peou is also a Member of the Eminent Persons Group at the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA); a College Fellow at McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto; a non-resident Senior Fellow, Hong Kong Research Center for Asian Studies (RCAS), Hong Kong; Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cambodian Institute for Peace and Cooperation and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Cambodian Development Research Institute, Phnom Penh (Cambodia) Other current affiliations include Director at Large, Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) and Member; Advisory Board, the Center for Applied Research in Conflict Transformation (CARiCT), The Nordic Centre, Morocco.

Previously, Dr. Peou served as a President of Science for Peace (based at the University of Toronto, Canada); Department Chair of the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada), and the Department of Political Science, the University of Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada); Chair of the Advisory and Recruitment Committee for The Manitoba Chair of Global Governance Studies – a joint program between the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. Prior to his appointment in Winnipeg, he was a Full Professor of International Security at Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), Canada-ASEAN Fellow, and Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore).

Dr Peou’s research and teaching interests are generally in the fields of Global Peace and Security Studies and Comparative Politics, with specialization in Global Governance, Security and Democracy Studies with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region.


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