Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in Cambodia:
A Bibliography

edited by Catherine Morris, BA, LLB, LLM.


See also a general bibliography on reconciliation and transitional justice. Also see the links to resources on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).

Links to other bibliographies on Cambodia
Dispute Resolution in Cambodia: A Bibliography on ADR
Peacebuilding in Cambodia: A Bibliography
Links to Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, and Good Governance Organizations in Cambodia
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Ablin, David A. and Marlowe Hood, eds. The Cambodian Agony. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1990.

Abrams, J. "The Atrocities in Cambodia and Kosovo: Observations on the Codification of Genocide." New England Law Review 35(2)(Winter 2001): 303.

Beauvais, Joel C., "Cambodia, East Timor and Sierra Leone: Experiments in International Justice", Criminal Law Forum 12 (2001): 185

Bit, Seanglim. The Warrior Heritage: A Psychological Perspective of Cambodian Trauma. 5210 Gordon Avenue, Le Cerrito, CA: Seanglim Bit, 1991.

Boyden, Jo and Gibbs, Sara. Children of War: Responses to Psycho-Social Distress in Cambodia. Geneva, UNRISD, 1997.

Boyle David. "One More Step - Adoption of the Khmer Rouge Trial Law." Judicial Diplomacy, Revue Internet (August 5, 2001).

Bunyanunda, Mann. "The Khmer Rouge on Trial: Wither the Defense?" 74 Southern California Law Review (2000-2001): 1581

Center for Social Development. The Khmer Rouge and National Reconciliation: Opinions from the Cambodians. Phnom Penh: Center for Social Development, April 2001.

Chandler, David P. "Will There Be a Trial for the Khmer Rouge?" Annual Journal of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs 14: 2000.

Chea, Vannath. "Reconciliation in Cambodia: Politics, Culture and Religion." In Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: A Handbook. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. Available (.pdf file) at http://www.idea.int/publications/reconciliation/upload/reconciliation_full.pdf

Chigas, George. "The Trial of Khmer Rouge: The Role of the Tuol Sleng and Santebal Archives." Harvard Asia Quarterly 2001

Chigas, George. "The Politics of Defining Justice after the Cambodian Genocide", Journal of Genocide Research 2 (2000).

Ciorciari, John D., ed. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Documentation Series No. 10. Phnom Penh, Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2006. Available at http://dccam.org/Publication/Monographs/KR%20Trial.pdf

Cook, Susan E., ed. Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006.

Cortright, David and George A. Lopez, "Cambodia: Isolating the Khmer Rouge." In The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s, ed. David Cortright and George A. Lopez. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

DeNike, Howard J., John Quigley and Kenneth J. Robinson, eds. Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Donovan, Daniel Kemper, "Joint U.N.-Cambodia efforts to establish a Khmer Rouge Tribunal." Harvard International Law Journal 44(2)(2003): 551.

Ea, Meng-Try, and Sorya Sim. Victims and Perpetrators? Testimony of Young Khmer Rouge Comrades. Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2001.

Etcheson, Craig. "Accountability Beckons During a Year of Worries for the Khmer Rouge Leadership." ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 6 (2000): 507.

Etcheson, Craig. "Beyond the Khmer Rouge Tribunal." Phom Penh Post 12 (22) (October 24-November 6, 2003).

Etcheson, Craig. "Faith Traditions and Reconciliation in Cambodia." Paper prepared for the "Settling Accounts? Truth, Justice, and Redress in Post-conflict Societies" Conference, Harvard University. November 1-3, 2004. Available at http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/conferences/truthjustice/Papers/EtchesonFullPaper.pdf

Etcheson, Craig. "From Theory to Facts in the Cambodian Genocide." International Network on Holocaust and Genocide 12:1-2 (1997): 4-7.

Etcheson, Craig. The Number - Quantifying Crimes Against Humanity in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2000.

Etcheson, Craig. Retribution and Reconciliation: Healing What Ails Cambodia. A Project Report to the US Institute of Peace. Washington, DC: USIP, 2002.

Etcheson, Craig.The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea. Boulder: Westview Press, 1984.

Gottesman, Evan R. Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Gunn, Geoffrey C., "Kampuchea: The Case for a Genocide Tribunal?" ARENA 81 (1987): 97-108.

Gyallay-Pap, Peter. "From Conflict to Reconciliation in Cambodia? Toward an Indigenous Approach." Battambang, Cambodia: unpublished paper, July 1993.

Hannum Hurst. "International Law and Cambodian Genocide: The Sounds of Silence." Human Rights Quarterly. 11(1)(February 1989): 82-138.

Hawk, David. "The Cambodian Genocide." In Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review, ed. Israel W. Charny, 137-154. New York: NY: Facts on File Publications, 1988).

Heder, Stephen, and Judy Ledgerwood. Propaganda, Politics and Violence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition under United Nations Peace-Keeping . Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Heder, Stephen, and Brian D. Tittemore. Seven Candidates for the Prosecution: Accountability for the Crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Washington: War Crimes Office of the Washington College of Law, American University and the Coalition for International Justice, June 2001. Available at http://www.wcl.american.edu/warcrimes/khmerrouge.cfm

Kiernan, Ben. "The Cambodian Genocide." In Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions, ed. George Andrepolous, 191-228. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997.

Kiernan, Ben. The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1996.

Kiernan, Ben, ed. Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the U.N., and the International Community. Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Number 41. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1993.

Kiernan, Ben. How Pol Pot Came to Power: A History of Communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975. London: Verso, 1986.

Kiernan, Ben. Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor. Piscataway, NJ: : Transaction Publishers, 2008.

Klosterman, Theresa. "The Feasibility and Propriety of a Truth Commission in Cambodia: Too Little? Too late?" Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law15 (Fall 1998): 833.

Lambourne, Wendy. "Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Meeting Human Needs for Justice and Reconciliation." Peace, Conflict and Development 4 (April 2004) 1-24. Available (pdf) at http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/dl/PostConflictPeacebuilding.PDF.

Linton, Suzannah. "New Approaches to International Justice in Cambodia and East Timor." International Review of the Red Cross 93 (2002). Available at http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList74/7B6428D7E40DD0D3C1256BA7003477CE.

Linton, Suzannah. "Cambodia, East Timor and Sierra Leone: Experiments in International Justice." Criminal Law Forum 12 (2001):185.

Linton, Suzannah. Reconciliation in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2004.

Marks, Stephen. "Elusive Justice for the Victims of the Khmer Rouge",Journal of International Affairs 52 (1999): 691

Marks, Stephen. "Forgetting - The Policies and Practices of the Past: Impunity in Cambodia", Fletcher Forum for World Affairs 18 (Summer-Fall 1994): 17

McGrew, Laura. "Leaders of Civil Society Speak Out," Phnom Penh Post 9(3) (February 4-17, 2000): 12-15.

McGrew, Laura. "The Thorny Debate on Justice for Pol Pot's Madness," Phnom Penh Post 9(4) (February 17-March 2, 2000): 6-7, 12.

McGrew, Laura. Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Peace in Cambodia: 20 Years After the Khmer Rouge. Unpublished paper reporting research December 1999 to February 2000, funded by the Canadian Embassy (Phnom Penh) March 21, 2000.

Metzl, Jamie Fredreric. "The U.N. Commission on Human Rights and Cambodia, 1975-1980." Buffalo Journal of International Law 3(Summer 1996):67.

Ok, Serei Sopheak. "Towards True Reconciliation in Cambodia," Cambodia Development Review 3(4) (1999): 1-4.

Railsback, Kathryn. "A Genocide Convention Action against the Khmer Rouge: Preventing a Resurgence of the Killing Fields", Connecticut Journal of International Law 5 (Spring 1990): 457.

Ramji, Jaya, amd Beth Van Schaack, eds. Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice: Prosecuting Mass Violence before the Cambodian Courts. Ceredigion, UK and New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.

Ramji, Jaya. "Reclaiming Cambodian History: The Case for a Truth Commission." Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 24 (2000): 137.

Ratliff, Suellen. "UN Representation Disputes: A Case Study of Cambodia and New Accreditation Proposal for the Twenty-first Century." California Law Review 87 (October 1999): 1207.

Ratner, Steven. "The United Nations Group of Experts for Cambodia." American Journal of International Law 93 (October 1999): 948.

Ratner, Steven, and Jason S. Abrams. Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Ratner, Steven. "The Cambodia Settlement Agreements", American Journal of International Law 87 (1993): 1-41.

Ratner, Steven. "The United Nations in Cambodia: A Model for Resolution of Internal Conflicts?" In Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts, ed. Lori F. Damrosch, 241-73. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993.

Ratner, Steven. Report of the UN Group of Experts on Cambodia to the Secretary-General. UN Doc, A/53/850, 16 March 1999.

Ross, James. Cambodia: The Justice System and Violations of Human Rights. New York, NY: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1992.

Rumney, P.N.S. ">The Khmer Rouge on Trial: Law, Genocide and Impunity." Contemporary Issues in Law 4 (1999): 169.

Rupp, Richard. "Cooperation, International Organizations, and Multilateral Interventions in the Post-Cold War Era: Lessons Learned from the Gulf War, the Balkans, Somalia, and Cambodia." UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 3 (1998-1999): 183.

Schabas, William A. "Cambodia: Was It Really Genocide?" Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 23, 2001: 470-477.

Schabas, William A. "Should Khmer Rouge Leaders Be Prosecuted for Genocide or Crimes against Humanity?" In: Searching for the Truth 23 (2001).

Schabas, William A. "Problems of International Codification: Were the Atrocities in Cambodia and Kosovo Genocide?" New England Law Review 35(2)(Winter 2001): 287.

Soth, Plai Ngarm, ed. Issues in Reconciliation: South East Asian Experiences. Proceedings of the Seventh SEACSN Regional Conference. Phnom Penh, August 25-27, 2003. Phnom Penh: South East Asian Conflict Studies Network (Cambodia) and Alliance for Conflict Transformation, 2003.

Stanton Gregory H. "The Khmer Rouge Genocide and International Law." In Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia, ed. Ben Kiernan, 141-162. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1993.

Stanton Gregory H. "Kampuchean Genocide and the World Court." Connecticut Journal of International Law. (Spring 1990): 341.

Stanton Gregory H. Blue Scarves and Yellow Stars: Classification and Symbolization in the Cambodian Genocide. Montreal: Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, Concordia University, 1989.

Sliwinski, Marek. Le Génocide Khmer Rouge: un analyse démographique . Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1995.

Vickery, Michael, and Naomi Roht-Arriaza. "Human rights in Cambodia." In Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice, ed. Naomi Roht-Arriaza , 243-251. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.


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