PEACE IS POSSIBLE ….. how we proved this in war-torn Cambodia

This book tells the story of removing firearms and explosives from Cambodia, a peaceful and neutral country destroyed by the USA's war in Vietnam. NATO Member States have sown war and misery in so many places; and yet USA and Britain, France and others claim to love peace. Actually - as a matter of FACT - White Men make War.

During the 1990s, I became a Research Fellow (and later a Senior Fellow) of UNIDIR working for micro-disarmament in West Africa and publishing books about how it is done. One of the main foci of my work was educating, mobilizing and promoting West African civil society in support of the ECOWAS Moratorium on the Illegal Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). Then in 2011, NATO destroyed Libya and created a civil war. Millions of SALW flowed out of Libya and across the Sahara, rendering our earlier micro-disarmament work irrelevant. These days in North Mali, people say that the AK-47 is a woman’s weapon. Men carry a rocket launcher, at least.

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It was more-or-less like that in Cambodia until the UN negotiated the Paris Accords of 1992, and ran Cambodia for a whole year while a new Khmer government was "elected." In order to make peace stick, we arrived in 1999, while guns were still firing, as a neutral EU team to persuade Cambodians that peace had arrived. Miraculously, we transformed Cambodia.

This small book tells that story. It is fun to read, and it is an excellent example of Peace Journalism - so different from the war-obsessed Western Press. Which is dominated by War-Obsessed NATO.