Op-Ed: KC-YAA
This year is the third year Khmer-Canadian Youth Association celebrated
the anniversary of Paris Peace Agreement (PPA). This year, the theme
focused on “How peace mean to us? And how we can build peace?”
Many speakers who come from various disciplines and different
backgrounds shed us light and gave us great input on this Peace
Commemoration.
Sophan who is the president of the Youth Association and chair of the
PPA Commemoration committee stressed on the importance of PPA comparing
to the great civilization of the Angkor Era. He also valued the PPA as
the renaissance of Cambodia. Further to his statement, the Youth will
keep organize the Peace Commemoration annually to provide public with
right understanding and help build peace together collectively. This
concerted effort will not only ensure that Cambodia can get fruition
from the PPA, the world will also share this peace process.
MP
Wayne Cao who is the member of parliament of Alberta government gave us
a great importance on the decline of two countries who signed the PPA
but Cambodia is still alive. The Russia union and Yugoslavia have been
split, but he observed that Cambodia has been stronger by the PPA. He
emphasized that the cold war has been died while the connectivity of
people in the world has become more visible. On his sight back home of
birth in Vietnam, Mr. Wayne Cao reflected on his life and his friend
which both have born in the same location but made a living in different
situation of political circumstance and economic development. Mr. Wayne
highly appreciated the Peace Commemoration and he will join this
celebration in years to come.
Ms.
Janyce Konkin who has extensively worked in Cambodia for “Initiative
for Change” described the importance of building peace within individual
first before expanding it to others such as family, community, nation
and the world. In this context, Janyce shed us insight on both practical
knowledge and academic theory. As her MA major focused on peace
research, her conclusion wholly rests on individuals who must initiate
peace within themselves first before outreaching to others. But she
accepted the original interdependent of inside peace affects outside
peace, and outside peace also affects inside peace. Her theory is not
different from that of Lord Buddha and late Cambodian monk Maha
Ghosananda. For the PPA, according to Janyce, it is a good instrument
for peace development in Cambodia.
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