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Reckoning with the Cambodian Genocide: Justice & Preservation with Dr. Helen Jarvis
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Episode Description
How did the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) form and begin trying perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide? What challenges arose during the ECCC’s existence, and how has it, alongside other entities, worked to preserve and reckon with the memory of the Cambodian genocide? On today’s episode of “Conversations on Genocide,” Elia speaks with Dr. Helen Jarvis, the former Chief of Public Affairs and Chief of the Victims’ Support Section of the ECC. They discuss the tribunal, memorialization in Cambodia, and Dr. Jarvis’ work on other aspects of the genocide. For more information, check out our content on our website at www.genocidewatch.com and follow us on Instagram @genocidewatchofficial.
Helen Jarvis, PhD University of Sydney, BA (Hons) Australian National University, Associate of the Library Association of Australia and former Head of the School of Information, Library and Archive Studies at the University of New South Wales. Helen is a Life Member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), currently Chair of the Register Sub-Committee of Memory of the World’s Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) and was a member of MoW’s International Advisory Committee (2013-2018). She has been a member of the Cambodian delegation to a number of UNESCO, World Heritage and Memory of the World conferences, as well as sessions of the International Coordinating Committees for Angkor and Preah Vihear, and was the editor of the 2013 Cambodian edition of the World Heritage magazine. In 2022 she participated in the World Heritage Open-Ended Working Group on sites of memory associated with recent conflict. Since the mid-1990s, Helen has worked in Cambodia on cultural heritage and documentation and justice for genocide. She was Documentation Consultant for Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program; a member of the Cambodian Government Task Force for the Khmer Rouge Trials; and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as Chief of Public Affairs and then Chief of the Victims’ Support Section. She works closely with Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in matters relating to archives and documentation. She holds both Cambodian and Australian nationality, and has been an Adviser to the Royal Government of Cambodia since 2013. She was awarded the Chevalier of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon (Cambodia) (for contributions to development of UNICODE for Khmer script, 2002); Officer and Grand Officer of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon (Cambodia) (for contributions to the establishment of the ECCC, 2003 and Cambodian heritage culture 2024; and Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia (2015).
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