Interfaith Buddy for Peace: The Weavers of Peace and Harmony in Thai Society project applies dialogues as the start to bring trust and harmony and to ultimately bring peace to the three southern border provinces of Thailand where there are still deep-rooted conflicts in with different thoughts, beliefs, ideology, and culture. This is one of the projects receiving Mahidol University’s social guiding policy driving fund to promote research which leads to social guiding by applying healthcare to build trust and lead to concrete relationship weaving. Lessons learned were extracted and offered as peace and harmony policies in Thai society by applying 40 sub-seminar field tools in six southern border provinces. There were 170 people in attendance. The researcher used interview techniques and created sub-discussions in the areas to build understanding, to weave relationships and trust. Discussions were used to add trust and initiate a cross-religion relationship. Public stages were used to create more empathy, more understanding, and bonding across the communities, expanding network for people to take care of one another, as well as design the communities to exchange their experiences through their suffering and loss before becoming friends who support each other in aspects, including healthcare, especially during COVID-19 pandemic. This could bring mobilization opportunities for friends of different religions to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

The policies resulting from the project comprise of facilitating environmental support and unlocking structural conditions that are obstacles of horizontal safe zone creation which creates a relationship between religious and social members. Other policies are providing freedom and ensuring safety in exchanging, discussing to find the truth that could bring solutions of problems and conflicts sustainably by resolving right at the deep-rooted issues. Further policies include facilitating the environmental promotion and unlocking obstacles of developing facilitative social leadership skills, taking time on trust-building and conflict-clearing progress before creating a new agreement to shape the future where people can live together harmoniously, and preventing reoccurring conflicts that could damage their friendship. 

Educational institutes related to peace creation who have an understanding and knowledge in the progress of harmony creation should conduct continuous studies and workshops to create Thai society understanding toward this harmony creating progress, as well as apply such knowledge and skills of conflict resolving in peaceful means, especially in the skills of truth management by  revitalizing the relationship together.

Media institutes should create content and apply peace journalism and conflict transformation to support the knowledge, progress, and example of the action in model communities to bring peace and harmony.

Other social institutes should study and try to understand the progress while systematically adapting their concepts related to harmony-building progress which consist of, but is not limited to the following steps; truth-finding, being ready to admit their own faults, bringing the convicted party to a punishment process, restoring relationships to finally bring reconciliation as well as driving and creating a culture to prevent other deep-rooted conflicts in the future. 

Pilot Community of Wisdom Practices would require an in-depth democratic principles and guidelines to fairly discover the truth with an empathetic process, even though it is in conflict with their ideas. Create an atmosphere that encourages democratic reconciliation that guarantees our rights, liberties, and equality to promote higher possibility for of the transitional process when compared to other systems, as it is transparent for inspection. Processes and methods applied must be fair and involve different sectors. Lesson records and extraction, as well as communication with society must be available to expand the network and together make this difference, to be driven and supported by necessary funds and facilities, to eventually create harmony and reconciliation.