Message from the Executive Director of
the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies
Greeting!
Today, I would like to officially launch the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies, a new independent foreign affairs think tank built for and by the next generations of Cambodian scholars.
We are a group of self-motivated young students in Cambodia whose preoccupation is to dedicate ourselves to study the change and future of progressive policy, by making the policymaking space more inclusive, diverse, and in depth, raising next generation voices, and by helping emerging Cambodian thinkers translate their creative policy ideas into tangible policy change. We endeavor to reimagine what a progressive think tank can and should be by cutting through the inertia and bringing our creativity, knowledge, skills, and experiences to bear on the policymaking process by those with the most at stake and for those with the most at stake.
The center is dedicated to discussing, researching and developing policy solutions to issues that matter most to the future of Cambodia and the region focusing in particular on: politics, security, foreign policy, socio-economics, environment, renewable energy, digital transformation, and other development trends in the region, including Southeast Asia, Mekong, and wider geostrategic environment of the Indo-Pacific region.
Our mission is simple. We are creating an independent think tank to assist Cambodia and Southeast Asia in navigating the turbulent time with policy-relevant discussions and quality research to stimulate open debates and undertake necessary studies to strategize Cambodia to withstand the shockwaves that derive from complex regional uncertainties and bring about positive developments to the region.
We look forward to enhancing broader understanding of national and regional prospects and challenges in a scholarly organized events such as conferences, seminars, workshops, public lectures by fostering inter-regional discussions and promoting relevant quality research as well as by disseminating research findings among scholar communities and other interested entities. We intend to achieve these activities with open forums for free and constructive discussion on issues of current trends and through publications such as, research papers, books, journals, policy briefs, opinion pieces, or outcome reports.
CCRS looks forward to working closely with various stakeholders, ranging from regional governments, diplomatic corps, international and regional organizations, research institutes, academia, think tanks, and other intellectual communities in advancing our mission to positively support Cambodia regarding regional affairs.
Him Raksmey
Executive Director
Cambodian Center for Regional Studies
Executive Director
Cambodian Center for Regional Studies