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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohan Saravanamuttu ** Johan Saravanamuttu, Dean for Social Transformation Research Platform, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. Tel.: +604‐653‐3081/2662. Fax: +604‐657‐0918/658‐3752. Email: ⟨johans@usm.my⟩. The editor and writers of this special issue would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research for this Special Issue of Global Change, Peace and Security. The writers are participants in a research project on Political and Civil Islam in Southeast Asia which is part of the Toda Institute's larger project on Globalization, Regionalisation and Democratisation (GRAD). Johan Saravanamuttu in particular would like to thank Toda Institute's director Majid Tehranian for his encouragement and intellectual input in the conceptualisation of the project. * Johan Saravanamuttu, Dean for Social Transformation Research Platform, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. Tel.: +604‐653‐3081/2662. Fax: +604‐657‐0918/658‐3752. Email: ⟨johans@usm.my⟩. The editor and writers of this special issue would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research for this Special Issue of Global Change, Peace and Security. The writers are participants in a research project on Political and Civil Islam in Southeast Asia which is part of the Toda Institute's larger project on Globalization, Regionalisation and Democratisation (GRAD). Johan Saravanamuttu in particular would like to thank Toda Institute's director Majid Tehranian for his encouragement and intellectual input in the conceptualisation of the project.