Cambodia Research Group
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This research group represents a collaborative effort between Dutch and Cambodian academics with the aim of putting together a research program in close collaboration with international and Cambodian NGOs, Cambodian government, diaspora and business associations, and other stakeholders. The focus of this research programme will be on cooperation between the parties involved in processes of economic development, peace-building and democratization. What is new about this approach is not the concern for development, but the approach. The approach is to involve as many groups as possible who have a stake in the development of Cambodia in the initiation of research questions, in the production of relevant data and the implementation of both the research and its findings.
The specific objectives of the research programme are to:
- Contribute to capacity building for Cambodian institutes of higher education
- Assist in curriculum development and teaching relevant modules
- Involve students in the research as assistant, data collectors and authors of theses
- Stimulate original local research by local researchers in the fields under inquiry in this programme
- Organize on a regular basis the exchange of experiences of the stakeholders
- Involve Cambodian academics, local and international NGOs and businesses and their associations in order to contribute to local capacity building
- Build a sustainable support-network of academic relations for Cambodian academics
- Inspire new research in collaboration
