Name:
Vannath Chea

Title:
Former president of the Center for Social Development

Email:
vannathonline.com.kh
cheavannathyahoo.com.

Phone:
+855 16-831-905

Areas of Professional Interest: I am interested in the process of implementing sustainable reintegration, reconciliation and peace based on social justice, harmony and dignity, at the policy level down to the grass-roots. Public and democratic participation, open dialogues and forums help to prevent any major crisis to happen. Strengthening moral and ethical values based on Buddhist principles of eight-fold-paths of righteousness.

Publications: (not limited to):

• Currently working on “Political Space for Advocacy in the South East Region” – Cambodia, for the South East Asian Committee for Advocacy;
• ‘Reconciliation in Cambodia: Politics, Culture and Religion’ in Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook, International Institute for Democracy & Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, 2003;
• Peace Review: Khmer Rouge and National Reconciliation, Journal of Social Justice 2002;
• ‘A Cambodian Renaissance: Prospects for Rebuilding a Nation-State’, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Winter 2001, USA;
• Asian Perspectives: The Dynamics of Change in Cambodia, April 2000: Civil Society and National Reconciliation;
• ‘The Monarchy’s Future Public Role: To Reign, but not to Rule?, in Accord: An International Review of Peace Initiatives’, Issue 5, November 1998, London;
• ‘Civil Society and National Reconciliation’ in The Dynamics of Change in Cambodia, Asian Perspectives Series, The Asia Foundation, April 2000, Washington, D.C.;
• Editor and contributor of the Monthly Research Bulletin, Center for Social Development, 1996-2006.

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