About Primitivo

Dr Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang is a researcher and scholar specialising in youth and peacebuilding in (post) conflict. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in International, Political, and Strategic Studies from the Australian National University and a Doctorate in Sustainable Development Studies from Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology. Dr Ragandang’s research focuses on youth inclusion, and historical injustices in the Philippines. His forthcoming book with Palgrave MacMillan, Peacebuilding and Memory in the Philippines: Transgenerational Resilience, and his numerous peer-reviewed articles, such as those in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, highlight his contributions to the field. 

In 2021, he co-edited a book on youth, peacebuilding, and sustainability, published through the Young Southeast Asia Leaders Program of the United States Mission to ASEAN. His forthcoming book chapter titled ‘Through the ballads: peace formation as remembering the past’, is published by Edinburgh University Press. His first book, Duladula ug Pakigsandurot (Games and Interaction), has been implemented in several public schools in Northern Mindanao.