Khamnueng Chamnankit (left), 48, became a community activist after her husband was arbitrarily arrested by military forces in Pattani. In the photo she is with one of the women she helps to, Sitini Chelo, whose husband was also subjected to arbitrary detention and condemned to life sentence. Pattani is one of the three southern provinces of Thailand where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Media Selatan (Media South in English) staff during a live program. The Pattani-based radio station promotes debate between all the parties involved in the conflict. The radio emphasizes information sharing as a key to achieve peace.

Soraya Jamjuree is a Professor at Prince Songkhla University in the southern province of Pattani in Thailand, where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004. She is also the director of Friends of Victimized Families, a group of university students that travel to remote villages across southern Thailand to offer support to women and children who have lost husbands, brothers and sons to violence.

Two women walks at the Pattani Central Mosque. Pattani city is the largest city in the three southern provinces of Thailand where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Students at the Darul Huda Ramung Tadika, near Pattani. Tadikas are Elementary Islamic schools, complementary to the public enrolment. Pattani is the largest city in the three southern provinces of Thailand where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Watthana playing with her students. She is a Muslim teacher and vice-director of the Pakaharang School, a public school in Pattani province that has been attacked several times by the insurgency. Pattani is one of the three southern provinces of Thailand where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Saawalak Chaisuwan, 57, is a Buddhist teacher whose husband, also a teacher, was killed by the insurgency in 2006 in Saiburi district in Pattani province. Teachers are one of the main targets of a Islamic separatist movement that emerged in the three southern provinces of Thailand in 2004.

Rosida Da-oh, 45, is the widow of an Arabic grammar teacher who was killed in Kruze Mosque in April 2004, where insurgents have hidden after an insurgent-led raid into a military camp nearby.

Kholiyoh Hali, 36, lost her father in the Kruze incident, close to Pattani city, where 32 men were killed by soldiers in 2004 after insurgent-led raid into a military camp nearby. Pattani is the largest city in the three southern provinces of Thailand where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Pathinon To-che, 60, lost her husband in the Kruze incident, close to Pattani city, where 32 men were killed by soldiers in 2004 after an insurgent-led raid into a military camp nearby. Pattani is the largest city in the three southern provinces of Thailand where a deadly Muslim insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Samahae Marisa, 49 years-old, lives in Po Ming, a 'red zone' distric (areas considered by the military to be under the sway of armed Islamic separatists). Her husband was a civilian volunteer working with the government. He was killed in February 2005 by the insurgency (comprising separatist ethnic Malay Muslims).

A muslim girl by the beach at Pattani city. Many people people from town and other districts of the province gather there during their free time.