Primitivo III “Prime” Cabanes Ragandang is a PhD candidate in International, Political and Strategic Studies, Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University.  Prime’s PhD research explores the intergenerational intersect of collective memory and community resilience in (post) conflict. His regional expertise is the Bangsamoro region of the Philippines. He is the founder of BHOLI Youth Centre in Northern Mindanao in the Philippines, a youth-led organisation that offers after school programs to students Pre-K-12. In 2021, the United States Mission to ASEAN awarded his youth-based project of crafting an online short course on youth peacebuilding sustainability. From 2016 to 2019, he served as an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Mindanao State University-Iligan, where he also earned a doctorate in Sustainable Development Studies.  Prime’s research is focused on Mindanao and the confluence of memory, intergenerationality, and community resilience. His book chapter, “Through the ballads: peace formation as remembering the past” is currently under review with the Edinburg University Press. His first book, “Duladula ug Pakigsandurot” (Games and Interaction), has been piloted in some public schools in Northern Mindanao. In January 2022, he completed his co-edited book on youth, peacebuilding, and sustainability, published through the Young Southeast Asia Leaders Program of the UN Mission to ASEAN.