I’m taking Information Visualization and have been looking around for interesting data sets to work with for my first assignment. Ultimately, I’ll probably try to work with a data set measuring information about thermostats and energy usage, but for this early assignment, I’m looking around for data sets of development, governance, peace and conflict information.
I [...]
I’ve got my fingers in a lot of pots for the coming few months. I’m working on the Virtual Tribunal — the work for the moment is mostly coordination. Our team has grown, which is terrific for our project, and now it is really time to start making our system. What this means for me [...]
S-21 or Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (http://www.tuolsleng.com/) was a Phnom Penh school turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge, now preserved as a genocide museum. It is estimated that as many as 20,000 people may have been detained at S-21 where they were torchered and killed. The map of Cambodia made of skulls and [...]
I attended the Center for Justice and Reconciliation (CJR, http://www.cjr-cambodia.org/) National Conference on Victim’s Participation, “Moving Forward, Together: Transforming Killing Fields to Living Fields.”
A panel of ECCC officials from various branches of the ECCC and victims’ association representatives answered questions from an audience estimated at about 200+ at Pannasastra.
Some observations:
victims want to share their personal [...]
This morning, I met with Phoung Pham from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. The HRC conducted a survey, published in 2009, to assess the general public’s awareness, impressions, and interests in the ECCC. They are back now to conduct a follow-up.
Our work intersects — the initial report suggested that both the ECCC [...]
Pol Pot’s Shadow, a Frontline World story about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/
Includes a broadcast story from 2002 with interviews from Cambodia and more recent updates from the field. Also some useful graphics about the history of the country.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/history.html
The East West Center of Berkeley is co-producing a weekly television show in Cambodia “Duch on Trial” — a show that recaps and explains the week’s events in the ECCC. This show is averaging 5million viewers each week, meaning that 1 in 5 Cambodians sees this show. This is encouraging, especially in light of the [...]
http://hrc.berkeley.edu/cambodia.html
The UC Berkeley Human Rights Center conducted a population-based survey last year of Cambodians to assess public awareness and attitudes towards the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC, http://www.eccc.gov.kh/), the join national/international tribunal trying accused Khmer Rouge war criminals.
The survey finds, among other conclusions, that the ECCC should “Greatly expand and improve the [...]
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~changmin/virtualtribunal.htm
This Fall, I joined a project at Berkeley called the Virtual Tribunal. The Virtual Tribunal is envisioned as an interactive online multimedia repository for the documents of war crimes tribunals from Nuremberg to the present. In addition to the documents of the court, the Virtual Tribunal will include documents related to the associated wars and [...]