Dispute Resolution in Cambodia: A Bibliography

Compiled by Catherine Morris, BA, JD, LLM

Last updated September 2016. Suggestions and corrections welcome.

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Austermiller, Steven M. Alternative Dispute Resolution: Cambodia. A Textbook of Essential Concepts. Washington, DC: American Bar Association, January 2010. Available at https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/roli/cambodia/cambodia_adr_book_english_01_19_09.authcheckdam.pdf.

Austermiller,, Steven. "Cambodian Alternative Dispute Resolution." Chapter 7 in Introduction to Cambodian Law, edited by Hor Peng, Kong Pallack, and Jorg Menzel. Phnom Penh: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2012. Available at http://www.khmerlex.com/Site/images/library_file/14-kas_31083-1522-2-30.pdf.

Bagshaw, Dale, and Damien Coghlan. "Discourses on violence: Constraints and Challenges for Mediators in Asia." Chapter 8 in Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention, edited by Deborah Mayersen, and Annie Pohlman, 158-176. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Coghlan, Damien. "Religion and power. The cultural context of mediation in rural Cambodia."

Coghlan, Damien. "Transforming Conflict and Building Peace in Cambodia." In Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Transforming Conflicts and Building Peace, edited by Dale Bagshaw. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Coghlan, Damien. "Transforming Approaches to Conflicts and Disputes in Cambodia: The United Nations Intervention and Beyond." PhD diss., University of South Australia, 2014.

Chor, Chanthyda. An Analysis of the Trickster Archetype as Represented by the Rabbit Character in Khmer Folktales. Masters thesis. Phnom Penh: Buddhist Institute, 2004, available http://www.budinst.gov.kh/main_research.html.

Coletta, Craig. Initial Observations on Conflict Resolution Processes and Cambodian Culture: Mediation Won't Work, Conciliation Has, Does, and Will. Report prepared for East West Management Institute Land Law Implementation Project, ADB TA 3577-CAM. Phnom Penh: East West Management Institute, January 8, 2002.

Collins, William A. Dynamics of Dispute Resolution and Administration of Justice for Cambodian Villagers. Phnom Penh: USAID Project Number 442-0111, unpublished manuscript, 1997.

Collins, William A. Evaluation of the Impact of CIHR Training for SEILA Participants in Principles of Management and Good Governance: A Report to UNDP/CARERE. Phnom Penh: Center for Advanced Study, 1999.

Collins, William A., Grassroots Civil Society in Cambodia, a discussion paper prepared for a workshop organized by Forum Syd and Diahonia, September, 1998. Final Report, November, 1998. Phnom Penh: Center for Advanced Study, 1998.

Condliffe, Peter. "Mediating Public Issue Disputes: Managing Land Disputes in Cambodia." Phnom Penh: Field Office of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, 1993.

Dhiaulhaq, Ahmad, Toon De Bruyn, and David Gritten. "The use and effectiveness of mediation in forest and land conflict transformation in Southeast Asia: Case studies from Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand." Environmental Science & Policy 45 (2015): 132-145.

Donovan, D. "The Cambodian Legal System: An Overview." In Rebuilding Cambodia: Human Resources, Human Rights and Law: Three Essays, ed. F.Z. Brown, 69. Arlington, VA: Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute and Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, 1993.

Doung, Voroth. "Cambodian Community Peace Building." In Visioning Alternatives to Violence: 2003 Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA) Conference, 46-53. Phnom Penh: SILAKA, 2003.

Gellman, Mneesha. "No justice, no peace? National reconciliation and local conflict resolution in Cambodia." Asian Perspective (2008): 37-57.

Gellman, Mneesha Ilanya. "Powerful cultures: indigenous and Western conflict resolution processes in Cambodian peacebuilding." Journal of Peace Conflict & Development 11 (2007): 25-26.

Heng, Monychenda. "Non-Violence and Conflict Resolution: Buddhism and Conflict Resolution in the Community." Paper presented at the Dispute Resolution in Cambodia: A Road to Peace and Reconciliation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 28-30 November 1995. Victoria, BC: UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution and Cambodia Development Resource Institute, 1997

Kao Kim Hourn, and S.K. Kamsan. Cambodian Approach to Peace and Conflict Resolution. Phnom Penh: Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 1998. (Khmer only).

Hughes, C. & R. Sopheap. Nature and Causes of Conflict Escalation in the 1998 National Election. Phnom Penh: Cambodia Development Resource Institute and Cambodian Centre for Conflict Resolution, 2000.

Ledgerwood, Judy. "Rural Development in Cambodia: The View from the Village." In Cambodia and the International Community: The Quest for Peace, Development, and Democracy, edited by Frederick Z. Brown and David G. Timberman, 127-47. Singapore: Asia Society, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998.

Lim, Jo-Ann. Out of Court Resolutions of Violence Against Women: Practices and Issues in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: DanChurchAid, 2009.

Luco, Fabienne, ed. Between a tiger and a crocodile. Management of local conflicts in Cambodia. An anthropological approach to traditional and new practices. Phnom Penh: UNESCO, 2002. (Entre le tigre et le crocodile: Approche anthropologique sur les nouvelles pratiques traditionnelles et nouvelles de traitement des conflits au Cambodge.)

Mao, Thora; Horn, Michael. 2005. "Alternative Dispute Resolution: what it is, and why it is relevant to Cambodia." Business issues bulletin Cambodia, No. 9. Washington, DC: World Bank. Available at https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/815321468231847217/alternative-dispute-resolution-what-it-is-and-why-it-is-relevant-to-cambodia.

McConnell, John. "Buddhism and Peacemaking: Western Conflict Resolution and Buddhist Wisdom." Paper presented at the Dispute Resolution in Cambodia: A Road to Peace and Reconciliation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 28-30 November 1995. Victoria, BC: UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution and Cambodia Development Resource Institute, 1997

McConnell, John A. Mindful Mediation: A Handbook for Buddhist Mediators. Bangkok: Buddhist Research Institute and others, 1995. (Also available in Khmer from Cambodia Development Research Institute, Phnom Penh)

McGrew, Laura, and Duong Virorth. Access to Justice Project in Cambodia: Final Evaluation Report. Phnom Penh: UNDP, Council on Legal and Judicial Reform, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, 2010.

Mysliwiec, Eva, and Catherine Morris, eds. Dispute Resolution in Cambodia: A Road to Peace and Reconciliation, Proceedings of a Workshop Held November 28-30, 1995, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Victoria, BC: UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution and Cambodia Development Resource Institute, 1997.

Neam, Koy. Introduction to the Cambodian Judicial Process. Phnom Penh: Asia Foundation, 1998.

Neilson, K.E. They Killed All the Lawyers: Rebuilding the Judicial System in Cambodia. Victoria, B.C.: Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 1996.

Ninh, Kim, and Roger Henke. Commune Councils in Cambodia: A National Survey on Their Functions and Performance, with a Special Focus on Conflict Resolution. The Asia Foundation in collaboration with Center for Advanced Study, 2005.

OXFAM. National Workshop on Institutional Cooperation About Resolving Land Disputes in Cambodia, July 15-16, 1999. Phnom Penh, OXFAM, 1999.

Pong, Pheakdey Boramy. The practice of Cambodian Buddhism before the 1970s and Today: A Comparative Case Study of Wat Tep Pranam. Masters thesis. Phnom Penh: Buddhist Institute, 2004, available http://www.budinst.gov.kh/main_research.html.

Sok, S. and D. Sarin. Legal System of Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Cambodian Legal Resources Development Center, 1998.

Vasquez, Carmen Maria Lopez. Pre-Trial Dispute Resolution Processes. Phnom Penh: Cambodian Court Training Program, International Human Rights Law Group, 1996.

Wiebe, William R. Alternative Dispute Resolution and Commercial Arbitration in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Iv Thong, Director, Faculty of Business, Phnom Penh, 1996.

Williams, Shaun. Land Ownership Disputes in Cambodia: A Study of the Capacity of Five Provinces to Resolve Conflicts over Land. Phnom Penh: Oxfam, February 2000).

Williams, Shaun. Where Has All the Land Gone? Land Rights and Access in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Oxfam, 1999.

Zack, Arnold M. "Labor: How Labor Arbitration Has Changed the Workplace Lands-cape in Cambodia." Journal of Dispute Resolution 64 (2009): 76-82.

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