Datu Mussolini Sinsuat Lidasan is the founder and currently the Executive Director of the Al Qalam Institute of Islamic Identities and Dialogue in Southeast Asia at Ateneo de Davao University; and a facilitator in intra-faith and interfaith dialogue (worked as a United Nations Volunteer - Community Development Specialist from 1998 - 2003). He is a post graduate candidate of Master of Arts in Anthropology focusing on Islam, identities, and political anthropology. He is a former Provincial Board Member of the 1st District of Maguindanao Province (Shariff Kabunsuan). He is a conflict transformation and socio-political landscape consultant to local and international agencies in Muslim areas of Mindanao. He is a group facilitator in dialogue, non-violence training and conflict analysis and management. He is interested in interreligious dialogue, conflict transformation and violence mitigation, especially in the South - Central Mindanao and conflict prone areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).