Willy Torres
Wilfredo Magno Torres III is an anthropologist with 12 years of experience in peace and development work. He has managed The Asia Foundation’s conflict management program in the Philippines. In this capacity, he designed, supported, and coordinated conflict management projects in close collaboration with the Foundation’s partners. Prior to his work with the Foundation, he served in Sulu as faculty and director for research and extension of the Notre Dame of Jolo College. He did several studies in Sulu, Philippines and in Sabah, Malaysia, on topics that deal with sea tenure, household adaptive strategies, gender relations, ethnicity, leadership, and conflict resolution mechanisms. He edited and co-authored “Rido: Clan Feuding and Conflict Management in Mindanao.” Recently, he has designed and managed programs that helped improve relations between communities and security forces, and facilitated engagements between the religious sector in Sulu and Basilan with security and development actors. He is a recipient of a Chevening Fellowship and is an Asian Public Intellectual Fellow of the Nippon Foundation. He was trained in people-centered development under the Institute of Philippine Culture and received his M.A. in Anthropology from the Ateneo de Manila University under a fellowship from the Ford Foundation.
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