The Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

"Cambodia: Truth, Justice, National Reconciliation and the Khmer Rouge Trial"

by

His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sirivudh
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace

Dr. Kao Kim Hourn
Executive Director
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace

Discussants:

Mr. Frederick Z. Brown
Associate Director, Southeast Asia Studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Thursday, 14 December 2000
12:00 to 2:30 PM

at

Jury's Washington Hotel - Burlington Room,
1500 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC

For information on this event please contact Seminar Program
at 202 296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia"
Seminar Program is supported by a grant from
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About This Seminar

His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sirivudh will focus, in his talk, on the process of the Khmer Rouge trial, which will highlight key issues such as truth, justice, national reconciliation. The talk will also discuss the challenges facing Cambodia over the debate between national sovereignty and the need for a constructive role of the United Nations in the Khmer Rouge trial. The talk will raise the various critical issues surrounding the Khmer Rouge trial.

Kao Kim Hourn will supplement Prince Sirivudh's presentation. He will also provide the contending views on the Khmer Rouge trial, especially the need to look at both the consequences of having a trial or of not having a trial. Kao Kim Hourn will also provide a view from a younger generation of Cambodia.

This seminar was also covered by IPS (www.ips.org

About the Panelists

Main Speaker

His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sirivudh is the son of His Majesty King NORODOM SURAMARIT. Prince Sirivudh serves by appointment as Supreme Privy Counselor to His Majesty King NORODOM SIHNOUK, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (C.I.C.P.), which he founded in 1994. HRH holds a degree in Mathematics and a Masters in Economics. The Prince has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-Deputy Prime Minister of CambodiaÕs provisional government and also actively taken part in numerous organizations including the GRUNCFUNK (Gouvernement Royale DÕUnion Nationale de Cambodge: United National Front of Kampuchea); and the National, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC), where he has been Chief Representative of HRH Prince Norodom Ranaridh in Paris, Chief of Humanitarian Department, and Secretary-General. HRH Prince Norodom Sirivudh, despite spending many years in exile, most recently from 1995-1999, plays a dedicated and active role in promoting collaboration, peace, cooperation, understanding, appreciation of human-rights and democracy for the development of the Kingdom of Cambodia. He is a very staunch supporter of democratic reforms and an active participant in the forums of ASEAN and through CICP, instigates and promotes the Distinguished Lecture series, focusing on the many issues concerning Cambodia and the Region.

Dr. Kao Kim Hourn is currently Executive Director of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace. He serves concurrently as a member, with the rank of Minister, of the Supreme National Economic Council (SNEC) of Cambodia; as Secretary General of Cambodia Committee for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP Cambodia); on the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Vigilance of Cambodia; and as an advisor to the Institute of Technology and Management. He was advisor to CambodiaÕs Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs in charge of ASEAN affairs. He hold degrees from the United States in Asian Studies, International Affairs and Political Science. Among his recent publications are The Greater Mekong Subregion and ASEAN: From Backwaters to Headwaters (Phnom Penh:CICP, 2000), Grassroots Democracy in Cambodia: Opportunities and Prospects (Phnom Penh:CICP, 1999), and ASEAN's Non-Interference Policy: Principles under Pressure? (London: ASEAN Academic Press, 2000). He is also published as a contributor to numerous compilations.

Discussants

Mr. Frederick Z. Brown founded the Southeast Asia Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in 1991 and has been associate director since 1995. He was a State Department foreign service officer from 1958 to 1984 with postings in France, Thailand, the Soviet Union, Vietnam (twice) and Cyprus. He was professional staff member for East Asia and the Pacific on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1984-1987. He is author of Second Chance; The United StatesÐand Indochina in the 1990s (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1989) and other publications.

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.

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