Volume 3 – December 2014

The Boeung Kak Development Project: For Whom and For What? Poor Land Development Practices as a Challenge for Building Sustainable Peace in Cambodia

Download PDF: English Using the Boeung Kak Lake development project (BKDP) as a case study, this paper explores how poor land development practices in Cambodia impede positive peace building. Viewed within the context of the country’s unfinished and prolonged land registration and legal reform efforts, the paper argues that there are

Cambodia Between the End of History and the End Times of Human Rights

Download PDF: English 1. 2013 — A CAMBODIAN SPRING? On July 28, 2013, Cambodians went to the polls for the fifth time in 20 years and loudly voiced their desire for change. The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), which has ruled the country in various guises since 1979, reeled as its share

“This Is Now the Most Important Trial In the World”: A New Reading of Code #6, the Rule Against Immoral Offenses Under the Khmer Rouge Regime

Download PDF: English This paper provides a gender analysis[2] of Code #6, the official policy of the Khmer Rouge regime on sexual relations. It argues that Code #6 was not primarily, if at all, an anti-rape policy and therefore does not exonerate senior Khmer Rouge cadre from the sexualized violence committed under their

Affirming Cambodia’s Sovereignty Over “Stones” That “Express” “Our Essence”: ICJ’S Interpretation of Its Judgment in the Temple of Preah Vihear Case

Download PDF: English The eleventh-century Preah Vihear Temple is a key monument of the Khmer Empire. It mainly represents the home of Shiva, a key Hindu god. It gives its name to Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province and, as a listed UNESCO World Heritage site, is an important source of tourist income for Cambodia. But the

On the Path to Sustainable Development: An Assessment of Cambodia’s Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Law

Download PDF: English 1. INTRODUCTION The Kingdom of Cambodia is currently undertaking a process to overhaul its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) laws and regulations. In the two decades since Cambodia emerged from years of conflict and civil war after the establishment of the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC), it has achieved

How Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programs Could Have Facilitated the Establishment of Long-term Conflict Prevention in Post-Conflict Cambodia

Download PDF: English Since the mid-1990s, the international community, members of Cambodian civil society, and the Cambodian Ministry of Defense have stressed the importance of reducing the number of soldiers in the Cambodian army.[2] According to data collected by the London-based International Institute for Security Studies, in 2014 Cambodia had a civil-military