IMAN Research

IMAN Research provides reliable, on the ground sentiments and information to a young Malaysia and the region on matters pertaining to society, religion and perception. This is crucial in the domains of peace and security, ethnic relations and religious harmony in multicultural societies. Because Malaysia is ideally situation in the Southeast Asian region, situated right smack in the middle of Asian Tigers such as Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, with neighbours such as Japan and China, its ecosystem allows to test out solutions between orthodoxy and modernity, Muslims and non-Muslims, and indigenous and immigrant populations. We aim to deliver sound policy solutions along with actions and measurable outcomes.

Based in Kuala Lumpur, IMAN Research is a think tank which focuses on the domains of protective security, peacebuilding and sustainable development. Research is spearheaded by experts with extensive local and international experience in the areas of prevention/counter violent extremism, ethnic-religious issues, social policy and community resilience and engagement such as participatory approach in urban policy and research and psycho-social intervention with communities in or from conflict zones.

IMAN seeks to understand a country and a society on a national, regional and global scale, by understanding what makes society tick from the following perspectives of faith, history, social science, psychology, to name a few.