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Summary Report of the 2018 Strong Cities Network Global Summit,

in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,

during 10 – 12 July 2018
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Ekachai Pinkaew*

Abstract

The State Government of Victoria, the Commonwealth of Australia and the
Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) have co-organized the 2018 Strong Cities Network Global

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Summit (SCN), during 10 – 12 July 2018, at Melbourne, Victoria, the Commonwealth of
Australia, with Mrs. Angkhana Neelapaijit, Commissioner, the National Human Rights Commis-
sion of Thailand (NHRCT) and Mr. Ekachai Pinkaew, Human Rights Official, the Human Rights

Assessment and Report Unit, Bureau of Research and Technical Support, Office of the NHRCT,
have attended the Summit.
There are more than 250 participants from 33 countries worldwide attending
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the 4 SCN Summit. The Summit is a platform encouraging the global leaders, government
representatives and policy makers including various practitioners from local areas to share
information, knowledge, experiences and practices on the making of social cohesion and

resilience corresponding to the violent extremism in all forms.
The main outputs made within the Summit are : (i) the exchange of management
and operational guidance for dealing with the polarization, hate and violence in both local
and regional levels ; (ii) the making of learning process with inspirations for the application and

undertaking of community-centric approaches, including various actions taken corresponding
to the violent extremism through the strengthening of peer-to-peer networks with sharing
of expertise ; and (iii) the mainstreaming and reiteration of basic principles on promotion

and protection of human rights, liberty and human dignities through various operations
for preventing of violent extremism.

Keywords: Strong Cities Network, social cohesion, resilience, violent extremism and
human rights

Human Rights Official, the Human Rights Assessment and Report Unit, Bureau of
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Research and Technical Support, Office of the National Human Rights Commission