Dahlia Simangan is Associate Professor at Hiroshima University. She is a core member of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability and teaches at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
She was a former Kanagawa University Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow for research in Japan (nominated by the United Nations University – Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) in Tokyo). She received her PhD in International, Political, and Strategic Studies from the Australian National University, MA in International Relations from the International University of Japan, BA in Sociology from the University of the Philippines.
Her research interests include topics on post-conflict peacebuilding, the peace-sustainability nexus, and peace and security in the Anthropocene. She has published her research in Ambio, International Affairs, International Peacekeeping, The Anthropocene Review, and Third World Quarterly, among other journals, and is the author of International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement: A Liberal Renaissance (Routledge, 2019).