Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan

After refusing military conscription as a youth, Yeshua has followed a life-long vocation of nonviolent activism. He has lived and worked in a dozen countries and resided most of his adult life in southeast Asia. In 1995 he was a co-founder of the Thailand Campaign to Ban Landmines, was invited to become an advisor to the Royal Thai Government's Mine Action Center, and has been involved in the Landmine Monitor since its inception in 1998. He has consistently been the country researcher for Burma/Myanmar.
Outside of his work with the ICBL, Yeshua serves on the International Program Council of the Small Arms Survey- a global research initiative which reveals the scope and nature of human mobilized armed violence involving small arms and light weapons; an International Council member of Nonviolence International- an NGO which promotes the understanding and use of nonviolent methods, and a counsultant to the International Peace Bureau- a global civil society network which seeks to elevate the status of peace on the international agenda. Yeshua lectures in Peace, Conflict Management & Human Rights, and taught at the Graduate studies program at Mahidol University in Thailand in 2004 and 2005.
He resides in Victoria, British Colombia with his wife, Anita, who is a literary translator. Yeshua can be contacted at yeshua@icbl.org