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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- The fact that my home country Cambodia experienced about three decades of civil armed conflict has motivated me to study and work in the field of peace and conflict resolution.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- My background is in language training and curriculum development. I obtained an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics from SEAMEO Regional Language Center, Singapore. I also hold an MA in International Peace Studies (Dual Campus) from the UN-mandated University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica. I am interested in peace education, peacebuilding and conflict transformation. In particular, I'm interested in research, training and evaluation in the field of peace and conflict studies.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Cambodia
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Cambodia
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://vicheth-cambodia.blogspot.com
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Education
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- My main research interest is in social capital and peacebuilding. I did a research focusing on the relationship between higher education and civic engagement in Cambodia. I also did another study focusing on the role of trust in conflict transformation by looking at an ethnic conflict in Indonesia.
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- Sen, V. (2008, Aug). Cambodia's untreated wound. Peace and Conflict Monitor. University for Peace. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/archive.cfm?id_article=537
Chan, R., Ou, S., Sen, V., Sok, S. & Som, R. (2008 Jan). How can young people help the government be more effective and accountable? First Prize Essay. The World Bank-Cambodia. Link: siteresources.worldbank.org/INTCAMBODIA/newsletters/21603973/Essay-Insert.pdf
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USAID, Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world
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Nonviolence In The Context Of War Or Armed Conflict
June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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Training for Urban Planning Practitioners: Managing Conflicts and Urban Development in Multiethnic Communities
June 20, 2010 at 6pm to June 26, 2010 at 7pm – European Youth Center
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my name is Simone, I am a Norwegian PhD student who is going to Cambodia for fieldwork in January and February 2010. I will be researching how the specific Cambodian context has affected the disarmament process. I read some of your publications on the upeace website and it would be interesting to get in touch with you regarding some of our common fields of interest.
Hope to hear from you!
best wishes,
Simone
Hi!
Let me introduce my self before. My name is Dani, 29, Indonesian.
I hope I can pursue my study at UPEACE in 2011, taking International Peace Studies, with scholarship (I have read the info at upeace website, especially scholarship provided by the Nippon Foundation for Asian).
I have double undergraduate degrees in English and Chinese. Right now, I work for student affairs department in a local university, also teach language (Chinese and Indonesian). Yet, I plan to pursue my career on peace studies.
Could you give me some suggestions what I should prepare to be able to get the scholarship? Or maybe you can share your experience about getting the scholarship?
Thank in advance for your attention, time, and help.
Good luck for your thesis, also!
sincerely yours,
dani
Current wars have to be ended and new wars have to be prevented. To achieve this goal the present system of Democratic Governance has to be changed to one that is really democratic in its true sense.
In the present democratic system it is only the powerful - speech, money and thuggery - can join the ruling class to suppress or convert others all others as their subjects and is a fertile ground for "corruption" in various forms to thrive.
In my opinion "Corruption" includes any kind of waste, neglect and every form of malpractice, dishonesty, abuse, misuse, unreasonable exercise of power, failure or refusal to exercise power, anything and everything left undone which results in the right of the people being denied or impaired.
Without a "just society" in existence much talked about "terrorism" cannot be eradicated. For the creation of a "just society" there should be "good governance" in the country. For the creation of "good governance" in the country "corruption" in ALL its forms must be eradicated. And to eradicate "corruption" the present democratic system of governance, where full power to make final decisions ultimately rests in the hands of one person, must be changed.
So the only way to salvage a country is to change the present system of governance to one that is truly democratic where the final decision-making power will NOT be in the hands of ONE person BUT shared by as many people as possible and thus restricting any individual hasty decisions that might lead to trouble everywhere.
To make a country truly democratic, the powers of the Parliament (the decision making supreme body of a country) should be split and separated and each of the separated powers must be handled by different groups of persons selected and elected by the people for the purpose of administering EACH SET OF POWERS or duties as the case may be so that no single group has the full power. All the groups together will make the whole. The country is not divided but the powers of parliament are divided/separated.
Different groups have to be elected for such purposes as administration, fiscal management, planning, implementing, policy and law making, auditing and for any other function that may be deemed necessary.
The group that is entrusted with the power to make laws and regulations shall not be given the duty/power of implementing/administering the laws and regulations.
Particular care should be taken to see that all powers are NOT CONCENTRATED in one place and that they do not overlap and there must not be a secret budget to be handled by a single person.
All transactions should be transparent including Diplomacy which has to be diplomatically transparent.
One set of powers dealing with the development of the country should be given to the set of representatives at the village level. The people of each and every village must be empowered to determine their way of life (lifestyle). The life-style of a village, its lands and resources shall not be disturbed by external forces.
All plans of development of a village that remotely/indirectly affects the village must have the concurrence of the people of that village concerned.
It has to be ensured that people are treated equitably regardless of their gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origins, age, disability, socio-economic background, religious or political beliefs and affiliations, marital status, family responsibilities, sexual orientation or other inappropriate distinction;
The decision-making powers with regard to each and every set of powers must be spread through-out the country.
With such system in practice discrimination, injustice, bribery and corruption, the four pillars of an Evil society might become history.
When the above four pillars of Evil are eradicated, the people would be living under a system that would guarantee sustainable peace, prosperity and a pleasant living to everyone in any country.
Comments on the above views are solicited from everyone with a view to prevent future wars and end current wars.
thanks for being my friend wish you all the best.