Reconciliation as Process and Practice course
Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden
October 2011
FBA staff (the visionary Ambassador Ragnar Angeby, dynamic Therese Jonsson), resource persons (Graeme Simpson, Sierre Leone's John Caulker, Cambodia's Theary Seng, Dr. Ervin Staub, Dr. Laurie Anne Pearlman) and participants (from Iran, Iraq, Italy, Switzerland, Kenya, South Africa, Colombia, Rwanda, Tunisia, Zimbabwe etc.) taking time out from their week-long intensive course to enjoy beautiful central Sweden in the autumnal mountain air.
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| Participants at Folke Bernadotte Academy, Oct. 2011. |
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| Nora Refaeil (Iranian-Swiss lawyer who is Special Adviser on Dealing with the Past in Kosovo for the International Civilian Office), Mazin Mahdi Habeeb (chair of Iraqi's Committee on National Reconciliation), Dr. Zouheir Jerbi (a physician who is Tunisia's Commissioner for one of 3 Commissions (his focuses on investigations abuses during the Arab Spring), etc. |
"Reconciliation is the re-stitching of relationships in a very broken society like Cambodia - individuals with individuals, groups with groups, citizens with the state, citizens with institutions (the building of civic trust). It necessitates a very comprehensive process of not only prosecution (e.g. Khmer Rouge Tribunal) but dialogue (e.g. forums we conducted all over Cambodia on "Justice and Reconciliation", deemed Cambodia's informal truth and reconciliation commission, which give voice to victims, survivors, perpetrators with the line between "victim" and "perpetrator" oftentimes indistinguishable), truth telling (as truth is a pre-condition of justice and peace a dividend), memorialization (with honor and diverse stakeholders), reparations (that is genuine and practicable) etc."
- CIVICUS Cambodia president Theary Seng
- CIVICUS Cambodia president Theary Seng
Theary Seng's Notes on FORGIVENESS
2 comments:
Everyone, please, don't mention or say just Yuon.
Please mention Vietcong/Vietnamese/Yuon so that the world need to know what Yuon is.
I have many American friends and friend around the worlds did not know what Yuon is.
You can mention both Yuon/Vietnamese or Yuon/Vietnamese/Vietcong so that the people around the world will understand.
All Khmer United
Theary, honey, that outfit made you look so dated! i think you'd look best in a black mini skirt or pair of leather pants, a nice white cotton blouse and a cream or red color outer coat...
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