KIM Sedara, Research Fellow, Democratic Governance and Public Sector Reform Programme

Mr. Kim, a cultural anthropologist and political scientist, joined CDRI in July 2001, where his work currently focuses on democratisation, peace and development research. Additional research interests include decentralisation and political culture. Prior to joining CDRI, Mr. Kim was a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, and worked for three years as a senior researcher at the Centre for Advanced Study.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from RUFA, a Graduate Certificate in Cultural Anthropology from the East-West Centre of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a Master’s Degree in Socio-Political Anthropology from Northern Illinois University, where he studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. His master’s thesis was titled “Reciprocity: An Informal Pattern of Social Interactions in a Cambodian Village Near Angkor Park”. Mr. Kim is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Department of Peace and Development Research at Göteborg University, Sweden. His PhD dissertation is on “Democracy in Action: The Decentralisation Process in a Post-Conflict Cambodia.”

Selected Publications

Hughes, C. and Kim Sedara (2004), "The Evolution of Democratic Process and Conflict Management in Cambodia, a Comparative Study of Three Cambodian Elections," Working Paper No. 30 (Phnom Penh: Cambodia Development Resource Institute)

Ojendal, Joakim and Kim Sedara (2006), "In Search of Agency in Rural Cambodia," Journal of South East Asian Studies, Vol.  No. (Singapore)

Rusten. C., Kim S., Eng N., and Pak K. (2004), The Challenges of Decentralisation Design in Cambodia, Monograph No. 1 (Phnom Penh: Cambodia Development Resource Institute)