@techreport{fdi:010085533,
  title = {{M}ediation masquerade for a land conflict resolution case in {N}ortheastern {C}ambodia},
  author = {{B}ourdier, {F}r{\'e}d{\'e}ric},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n the {M}ekong sub-region, governments rely on foreign direct investment for promoting national economic development. {T}hese external funding sources have contributed to numerous land grabs and forced evictions during the last two decades. {I}n 2009, an open clash erupted between a foreign agro-industrial {C}ompany and eleven villages, mostly inhabited by indigenous communities, located in the north-eastern province of the {K}ingdom. {T}heir moral economy, corresponding to their perception of economic justice and to their concrete definition of what they mean by exploitation, has been violated. {B}ut three years after, rather than enduring a strenuous confrontation or launching improbable legal proceedings against the incriminated {C}ompany, a group of supporting {NGO}s encouraged the affected populations to adopt a so-called alternative strategy based on a fair-minded mediation. {T}his institutionalized initiative, the first ever implemented in {C}ambodia, relied on existing mechanisms associated with international law regulations and bank procedures. {T}his ended in an apolitical and technical intervention, upheld by the {W}orld {B}ank, which, predictably, turned to the disadvantage of already deprived villagers confronted, among other shortcomings, by structural impairment and limited autonomous advocacy.},
  keywords = {{CAMBODGE} ; {RATANAKIRI}},
  address = {{P}aris},
  publisher = {{IRD}},
  series = {{W}orking {P}aper},
  pages = {38  multigr.},
  year = {2018},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010085533},
}