History
The initial ideas for the Cambodian Centre for Mediation (CCM) came about during the implementation of the Access to Justice Project of the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Cambodia from 2007-2010, where over 400 mediators were trained at the district and local levels to address the growing numbers of conflicts in Cambodia.
Upon the completion of the Access to Justice Program, the necessity for conflict resolution did not end. Moreover, due to increased economic pressures and the lack of equitable distribution of growth benefits to rural areas, more drivers of conflict have emerged. With this realisation, a team of committed professions came together to establish the Cambodian Centre for Mediation. They developed a strategic program to promote a culture of dialogue, negotiation, win-win solutions, and healing to Cambodian citizens who experience a wide range of conflicts from domestic violence, family arguments, land disputes, gang fights, loan disagreements, some of which involve abuses of their civil, political, economic, and cultural rights under national and international law. Lack of social capital, existing trauma from the history of civil conflict, vertical power structures, and absence of well defined accountability structures all create an environment which is ripe for a variety of conflicts, some of which are violent.
The most frequent type of conflicts in the rural areas concern domestic violence and land disputes. CCM is the first national Organization in Cambodia specifically working in the area of alternative dispute resolution through mediation.
The Cambodian Centre for Mediation has been legally accepted by the Royal Government of Cambodia as an independent and nonprofit Organization, committed to promoting peaceful and equitable resolutions of conflict and self-determination in Cambodia through mediation as a form of alternative dispute resolution “ADR”, by providing high quality mediation services, education and training for the community, civil society and government. The CCM was registered with the Ministry of Interior No.1464 dated 01 October 2010.
Upon the completion of the Access to Justice Program, the necessity for conflict resolution did not end. Moreover, due to increased economic pressures and the lack of equitable distribution of growth benefits to rural areas, more drivers of conflict have emerged. With this realisation, a team of committed professions came together to establish the Cambodian Centre for Mediation. They developed a strategic program to promote a culture of dialogue, negotiation, win-win solutions, and healing to Cambodian citizens who experience a wide range of conflicts from domestic violence, family arguments, land disputes, gang fights, loan disagreements, some of which involve abuses of their civil, political, economic, and cultural rights under national and international law. Lack of social capital, existing trauma from the history of civil conflict, vertical power structures, and absence of well defined accountability structures all create an environment which is ripe for a variety of conflicts, some of which are violent.
The most frequent type of conflicts in the rural areas concern domestic violence and land disputes. CCM is the first national Organization in Cambodia specifically working in the area of alternative dispute resolution through mediation.
The Cambodian Centre for Mediation has been legally accepted by the Royal Government of Cambodia as an independent and nonprofit Organization, committed to promoting peaceful and equitable resolutions of conflict and self-determination in Cambodia through mediation as a form of alternative dispute resolution “ADR”, by providing high quality mediation services, education and training for the community, civil society and government. The CCM was registered with the Ministry of Interior No.1464 dated 01 October 2010.
