Raihan A. Yusoph is a faculty member of the History Department at Mindanao State University–Marawi City and the former Peace Education Program Officer of the Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao (IPDM). He earned his BA and MA in History, specialising in Mindanao Studies, from MSU–Marawi and is currently pursuing his PhD under International Peace and Co-existence Program at Hiroshima University, Japan, as a MEXT Scholar.