**THE 17th GLOBAL ISSUES COLLOQUIUM **

Institute for International Trade and Cooperation would like to invite you to our seventeenth faculty colloquium.

Monday, November 24th, 2014
5:00 pm-6:00pm (Dinner will be provided)
#1002 Seminar Room, International Education Building

“Sociopolitical landscape of post-conflict reconstruction of Cambodia”

Presenter: Dr. Sedara Kim

Dr. Sedara Kim is a Cambodian national. Currently he is working as a professor at the Royal School of Administration, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  He is lecturing on the Political Economy and Development in Post-Conflict Cambodia. Dr. Sedara Kim is also served as the senior advisor to the Office of the Council of Ministers, Royal Government of Cambodia. Dr. Kim used to work as a senior research fellow at CDRI (Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) for 13 years, focused on governance and democratization. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. His Doctoral dissertation was “Democracy in Action: Decentralization Reform in the Post-Conflict Cambodia”. Dr. Kim received his M.A in Socioeconomic Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, USA while he was under the Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Kim also earned a graduate degree in Archaeology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH), under the East-West Center Scholarship in 1995-96. His primarily research focuses and publications are: Democratization and Decentralization in Post-conflict societies, civil society, electoral politics, education, gender and political parties, and cultural anthropology.

Abstract

Cambodia has been protracted with civil war and social upheaval for more than two decades. In the period of 1970 to the present, Cambodia has undergone several changes of sociopolitical systems, which have included monarchy, a republic, a communist genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge, Russian style communism, and since 1993 incepting the electoral pluralist democratic system. Economically, in the 1980s, Cambodia embraced centralized state command economy, and in the early 1990s switched to a free market economy. Since 1998, under the leadership of Cambodian government, the country has enjoyed peace and political stability with regional and international integrations. Cambodia has been able to reconcile its own social and political problems and develop major physical infrastructure leading to steady macro-economic growth with the average of 7-8% per annum. All the major political and economic institutions have been restored from scratch after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge era. The aim of the presentation is to describe the experiences of progresses and major challenges of the post-conflict reconstruction of Cambodia—seeking the ways forward.

* This colloquium is supported by the Ewha Global Top 5 Grant 2014 of Ewha Womans University and Ewha GSIS

* RSVP BY November 20^th FOR DINNER PREPARATION