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The Anlong Veng Peace Center is dedicated to memory, reconciliation, and peace building, and it achieves these objectives through peace studies and genocide education. Peace studies represent the Center’s effort to identify and analyze violent and non-violent behaviors as well as structural mechanisms that precipitate conflict. Genocide education represents the Center’s effort to establish curricula that address the fundamental questions of what happened and why during the Khmer Rouge period. Both educational approaches are utilized with a view toward encouraging peace, education, and the rule of law. The Center’s new headquarters office is situated in Anlong Veng—the last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge regime. Working closely with the local community, schools, and tourism officials, the Center looks forward to bridging the divide between the former Khmer Rouge (KR) and Cambodia’s younger generation. The intent of the Center is to provide a variety of educational and tourism-related programs that help preserve the oral and physical history of the region as well as building peace and reconciliation between generations and across social divides. The Center not only aims to provide a critical understanding of Cambodia’s violent history, but it also seeks to convey a basic understanding of different theories on conflict resolution and transformation. Using its new office space as a headquarters, the Center will meet its objectives through future programs centering on interactive discussions, guided tours of local historical sites, and a curriculum that uses individual stories to convey historical and moral lessons.

The tours will be rehabilitative to victims and former KR cadres in that they will provide victims and former cadres an opportunity to reflect on and impart their understanding of their experiences during the Democratic Kampuchea period and the civil war years (1979-1998) that followed.

Through face-to-face discussions with victims and former KR cadres, the program will challenge participants to contemplate the diversity of human experience (both instances of humanity and inhumanity) during times of conflict and social upheaval. The stories validate the significance of individual human beings, and they help foster the most basic components of conflict transformation and civic skills. Concepts such as the ability to reflect, think objectively, and empathize with others are cornerstones to any peaceful, democratic society. The project will focus on historical empathy as its core objective, and the students, teachers, and tourguides who attend the program will be responsible for serving as representatives in their local communities, sharing their learning and insights.

The establishment of the Anlong Veng Peace Center in Anlong Veng represents a start of the Center’s work towards its mutually reinforcing aims of Peace, Education, and Sustainable Tourism. Through these core objectives, the Center aims to become a leading institution for the development of sustainable approaches to achieving reconciliation and peace in Cambodia and the region.

Contact:
Dr. Ly Sok-Kheang, Director
Anlong Veng Peace Center
e: truthlysokkheang@dccam.org
t: +855 (0) 12 570 465

Location 1
Akpivat village, Anlong Veng commune,
Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey provincea

Location 2: Mountain top 
O’kra Nhoung village, Trapeang Prey commune,
Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province

Location 3: Pol Pots Cremation Site
O’kra Nhoung village, Trapeang Prey commune,
Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tours, November 12, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, October 8 , 2023

Anlong Veng Peace Center & Peace & Human Rights Study Tour, September 18, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, August 14 , 2023

A Study Tour by Net Yang High School to Anlong Veng Peace Center, August 11, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, July 09, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, June 12, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, May 15, 2023

Genocide Awareness Month. Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, April 7, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, March 11, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, February 12, 2023

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. Anlong Veng Peace Center, December 9, 2022

Anlong Veng Peace Center Hosted a Visit of Mr. Sungho Kang, Co-President of History NGO Forum for Peace in East Asia, South Korea, November 11, 2022

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour by Students of Samdech Ov and Net Yang High Schools in Battambang, September 11, 2022

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour, June 12, 2022

Peace Study Tour to Anlong Veng Peace Center on May 13, 2022

John Sanderson in Anlong Veng: Former UN Forces Commander, for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) from 1992 to 1993, April 30, 2022

Anlong Veng Peace Center: Royal University of Phnom Penh, History Department, March, 8-11 2020

The Two Songs From Anlong Veng Peace Center For Peace & Reconciliation, October 18, 2019

Anlong Veng Peace Center: A Visit From The Embassy Of Sweden In Phnom Penh, July 8, 2019

Anlong Veng Peace Center: Peace & Human Rights Study Tour for Pre-Service Teachers from Regional Teacher Training Center of Battambang Province, December 12, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Center: Peace & Human Rights Study Tour for Pre-Service Teachers from Regional Teacher Training Center of Phnom Penh City, November 13, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Tour & Human Rights Study Tour, September 19, 2018

Peace & Human Rights Study Tour for Pre-Service Teachers from Regional Teacher Training Center of Prey Veng province, August 26, 2018

U.S. Ambassador Visits Anlong Veng Peace Center, August 23, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour: Field Study, August 22 2018

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour, August 20, 2018

Notebook from A Journey to Anlong Veng Peace Center by Four Students of the Department of Media and Communication, Royal University of Phnom Penh, August 14, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Center.  Peace and Human Rights Study Tour: Students of the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), July 18, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Tour: A Beautiful Life After The Rains, July 18, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Tour, June 8-11, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Center: Peace & Human Rights Study Tour, April 24, 2018

Second tour guide training is organized by Anlong Veng Peace Center,  March 22, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour. February 25, 2018

Anlong Veng Peace Center. Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force, October 31, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center. A visit from Cambodia Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), September 2, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center. Stories from Anlong Veng Before the Rise of the Khmer Rouge, September 1, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center. True Reconciliation Does Not Consist In Merely Forgetting The Past, August 8, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Study Tour Has Been Organized For 12 Students From The Anlong Veng High School From July 8-9 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center. Guidebook for Tour Guides, May 30, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center: Searching for Truthfulness & Reconciliation, February 14-17, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center: Searching for Truthfulness & Reconciliation, January 31, 2017

Anlong Veng Peace Center. Canada Provides Support To Anlong Veng Peace & Human Rights Study Tour, December 16, 2016

Anlong Veng Peace Center. Ninth Peace Tour in Anlong Veng November 08-11, 2016

Eighth Peace Tour in Anlong Veng, October 25-28, 2016

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