Victor’s justice or restorative justice: exploring the value of participation for Bangladesh’s future reconciliation process

Participation is a widely accepted process value in restorative justice, but its nature varies from context to context. This study explores the nature of participation in the context of Bangladesh’s future reconciliation process. Case study and qualitative interviews are employed to understand the phenomenon; the deductive and inductive data are analyzed with NVivo 10 software. On the basis of findings from three in-depth qualitative interviews, and examples from Rwanda’s gacaca courts and the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia, this study argues that engaging and inclusive participation from all stakeholders is essential for a future reconciliation process in Bangladesh. It contends that the involvement of the United Nations would ensure rule of law, due process, and safety and security of the victims and perpetrators. Four inductive themes of participation – engagement, inclusiveness, stakeholders, and safety and security – are particularly highlighted.     

Lost in Translation: The Problem of Perceptual Limitations in Civil War Peace Negotiation

This article examines the negative role that actors' perceptual limitations play in civil war peace negotiation by reviewing the Sino-Khmer Rouge interplay during the Cambodian peace negotiations (1987–1993). The study contends that China continually failed to challenge the Khmer Rouge's negotiation strategies, which were founded on the faction's flawed understanding of its situation. Moreover, the inadequate communication between China and its client faction and the Khmer Rouge's lack of institutions for obtaining and analyzing information are identified as the two main reasons for the failure of Chinese intervention.     

基于GMS的中国—柬埔寨会计比较

本文基于大湄公河次区域(GMS)经济合作,探讨中国与柬埔寨在会计法规制定背景、制定机构、会计法规体系、实施情况等方面存在的差异,推动区域各国的会计协调,改进区域会计信息的可比性,降低区域交易成本,提高区域贸易与投资合作效率。     

不断加深的中柬友谊 期待完美的交往细节

中国对柬埔寨的援助不附带任何条件,以帮助对方发展经济为目的。本文在对中柬相互帮助、相互支持的论述中,提出关注细节在中国对柬埔寨援助中的重要性。     

1940～1953年间柬埔寨教育的佛教模式

法国殖民时期（1863。1953年）,柬埔寨在人才资源的培养上严重受限,大多数国民的启蒙教育都是在寺庙中进行。本文将通过叙述寺庙学堂的一些情况,例如巴利文预科学校、高级巴利文学校、律院、佛教中学、佛教大学,以及各种支持佛教学院和各个佛教协会的活动等,以此来介绍1940。1953年间柬埔寨教育的佛教模式。     

Motivations for local resistance in international peacebuilding

This article discusses the complex motivations underlying local resistance to externally led post-war peacebuilding programmes. In examining the land distribution process in post-war Cambodia it proposes a five-part typology of motivations for the resistance that frequently appears in the context of international post-conflict peacebuilding processes. The article also argues that a single campaign of resistance is likely to involve multiple actors with multiple motivations.     

The evolution of rule of law in Cambodia

Cambodian leaders have confounded the efforts of the international community to promote rule of law. Over the past decade the Cambodian government has introduced a series of legal reforms and overseen an increase in the use of legal proceedings including defamation lawsuits against opposition politicians and members of civil society. These reforms and practices, as well as the role of the judiciary in relation to each, may be better understood through elite perceptions of the rule of law in Cambodia. Comprehending the rule of law as it is understood by the ruling elites offers better insight into the trajectory of legal development and the obstacles to Western ideals for legal reform. This article situates Cambodia within the context of illiberal democracy and examines how a thin rule of law has evolved, focusing on defamation law as a legal and political strategy of control. While the international community has pressed Cambodia to carry out liberal legal reforms for some time, the article will outline the obstacles facing reformers and the competing desires of Cambodian leaders embedded in the patronage based political order.     

The revitalisation of Buddhist peace activism in post-war Cambodia

This article examines the Buddhist peace movements in Cambodia, which are being revitalised after a long silence since the late 1990s. Specifically, it explains how Cambodian Buddhist monks develop and maintain their normative legitimacy and connection with civilian followers by focusing on their approaches to four types of resources: religious authority, cultural knowledge, social networks, and new communication technology. Through the analysis, the study aims to offer empirical examples of religious leaders’ strategies for promoting peace activism and to demonstrate an ideal type of locally owned peace-building promoted in post-conflict contexts, both of which are rarely available in the existing literature.     

Overlapping zones of exclusion: carbon markets,corporate hydropower enclaves and timber extraction in Cambodia

ABSTRACT

This contribution looks at the interplay of different logics of governing the environment, resources and people in Cambodia that materialise in overlapping zones of exclusion, thereby co-producing new relations of resource control in a complex frontier constellation: a frontier for water, forest and carbon commodities and also for state control. Focusing on three Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) hydropower dams, the paper analyses a partly unintentional, but significantly consequential coalescence of distinct spaces of governing located in the Cardamom Mountains: a forest conservation zone, the CDM technological zone, an enclaved corporate hydropower zone and a semi-official timber logging zone. While the CDM element has exposed the projects internationally, it has obscured several problematic aspects and dynamics of resource politics connected to the dams that are revealed in this paper. These include the vulnerabilisation of local fisher communities, incarceral labour practices on the dams’ construction sites and accelerated logging in the conservation zone. The paper also shows how the interaction of the studied zones takes place through their distinct mechanisms of exclusion with the effects of more centralised resource control and the bracketing of the associated dispossessions.     

柬埔寨与泰国领土争端的历史和现实——以柏威夏寺争端为焦点

边界与领土争端是柬泰关系中的未愈伤口.历史上,柬埔寨与泰国之间,国界与疆域曾多次互有伸缩进退,为此结下了历史宿怨.现实中的柬泰边界与领土争端的核心问题之一,是对位于柬泰边界上的柏威夏寺归属的争端.边界问题动辄在柬泰两国关系中掀起轩然大波,甚至流血冲突,严重影响双边和睦,破坏地区稳定,危害和平建设.在全球化背景下构建和谐世界的今天,和平解决边界与领土争端应该成为柬泰两国与国际社会的共识.