Launched in 2010, the ICIRD Knowledge Network is a platform for academic cooperation among five of Thailand’s foremost providers of research and higher education: the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, the Master of Arts program in International Development Studies (MAIDS), Chulalongkorn University, the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP), Mahidol University, the Regional Center for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development (RCSD) of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University and the School of Social Innovation, Mae Fah Luang University.
These five institutions are loosely affiliated in a knowledge sharing network in order to promote Thailand and its universities as a venue for international scholarly exchange and academic networking among renowned scholars around the world. ICIRD International Conference is organized every two years.
The six ICIRD international conferences had been organized by the ICIRD consortium universities and another one to be organized in July 2022 in Chiang Mai as follows:
- 1st International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2011) “Governance, Human Rights and Development in Southeast Asia and beyond ; 19-20 May 2011, Bangkok, Thailand hosted by Thammasat University
- 2nd International Conference Relations and Development (ICIRD 2012), “Towards an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC): Prospects, Challenges and Paradoxes in Development, Governance and Human Security” July 26-27, 2012, Chiang Mai, Thailand, hosted by Chiang Mai University
- 3rd International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2013) “Beyond Borders: Building a Regional Commons in Southeast Asia” 22-23 August 2013, Bangkok, Thailand hosted by Chulalongkorn University
- 4th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2015) “Traversing the Next ASEAN: Challenges and Prospects in Development, Democratization, Human Rights and Peace”, 9-10 July 2015, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand, hosted by Mahidol University
- 5th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2017, “Paradox of Human Security: Democracy, Rights, and Conflict” 23-24 June 2017, Bangkok, Thailand hosted by Thammasat University
- 6th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2019) ‘A New Global Network: What’s Next of ‘The Turns’ in International Relations and Development, 22-23 November 2019, Chiang Rai, Thailand, hosted by Mae Fah Luang University
- 7th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2022): “Disruption, Challenges, and Resilience in Contemporary Southeast Asia”, 22-23 July 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand hosted by Chiang Mai University