Think Tank 2022 Public Lecture Series

Think Tank 2022 Public Lecture Series: The Contribution of International Humanitarian Law to Peace and Reconciliation of Conflicts: Prospects and Challenges

Guest Speaker: Dr. Neth Thida Chanthima, Research Fellow, MCSS/AVI
Moderator: Dr. Chheang Vannarith, President of AVI

Date: Friday, 15 September 2022,
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 (Time in Phnom Penh, GTM+7)

Think Tank 2022 Public Lecture Series on “Geopolitics on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for ASEAN”

Do you want to know more about the implications on the Korean Peninsula? Come join us on the 26th April 2022 from 9 am to 11 am (Phnom Penh Time).

On 9 March 2022, Think Tank 2022 Asia-Pacific Secretariat organized a Public Lecture Series on “Present Situation and Peace-building in Myanmar”. The program joined by Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn, Regional Affairs Columnist for the Bangkok Post, and moderated by Dr. Chheang Vannarith, President of AVI. The lecture highlighted four main points: current situation and prevailing trends in Myanmar; Asean’s role in resolving the conflict in Myanmar; reactions from neighboring countries; the significances of Cambodia’s Asean chair.

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is the newborn Country in the 21st Century. It lies 400 km North of Australia across the Timor Sea, and in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the Eastern and of the Indonesian archipelago. Timor-Leste comprises the eastern half of Timor Island, the separate Enclave of Oecussi, situated in West Timor and the small Offshore Islands Atauro and Jaco.
On May 20, 2002, the Independence of Timor-Leste was restored and power was handed by the UN to the first Constitutional Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. Although the independence was restored, the country went through several phases of both internal and external reconciliation. Until December 2012, Timor-Leste, as the members of the community of states, has entered a new stage of nation-building following the withdrawal of the United Nations.

After the Taliban regime collapsed in 2001, neo-liberal peace was planted and nurtured through peace negotiations and national reconciliation (peace-making, peacekeeping and peacebuilding). However, the neo-liberal peace has never been recognized as “truth” or “reality” by extremists like the Taliban and other insurgent groups. As a result, multi-ethnic Afghanistan has faced challenges in achieving a unified state. The country has experienced a worsening domestic struggle for political power and colliding views of civilization between radical Islamic minorities and moderate Islamic majorities.

Should you want to know more about the game of truth of neo-liberal peace and the complexity of state-building in Afghanistan, join our event and meet our Speakers and Discussant.