Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP) has continue carried out the project in supporting the peace dialogue process in the southern border provinces for more than a decade. The project had provided dialogue platforms for the local politicians to exchange thoughts and ideas on conflict transformation and keep them updated on the peace dialogue process. The IHRP have been support local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to form their network, particularly in Narathiwat province, which later join their hand with the other CSOs in the Deep South. In 2019, the general election after the military government step down had opened a window of opportunity for the civil society networks and the politicians to exchanges about political policies and mechanism that would support the peace process in the Deep South. The CSOs and the politicians (across the political parties) agree to push forward parliament mechanism to support and monitor the progress of the peace dialogue process.

           As a result, after the election, IHRP organized a dialogue meeting between the two parties, CSOs and politicians from five political parties, again. The two sides jointly signed a memorandum of collaboration in supporting the peace process on August 31, 2019. This collaboration aims at push forward the peace process monitoring and supporting mechanism annexed to the parliament.  Later, in January 2020, MPs in the Deep South collectively submitted a proposal the chair of the parliament requesting to an endorsement of a commissioner to conduct a study on the peace dialogue process. But the proposal was stalled due to the COVID-19 situation.

         After the COVID situation began to loosen, the person in charge of this project of the institute establishment project Together with the civil society network has held a following up meeting with the MPs from all parties. They agreed to push forward the agenda of forming a commission on the peace dialogue process within the parliament. In 2022, they managed to meet with the president of the parliament, chairman of the government and the opposition to present the proposal on the commission. If the process of forming a commission on the peace process goes as planned, the peace dialogue process will be sustainable and there will be a guarantee of continuity in seeking a peaceful solution to the problem.