What lessons can mediators learn from the Cambodia peace process of the 1980s?

In the report, Asif R. Khan looks back on an ambitious period in international peacemaking and extracts lessons from that time for mediators facing a very different multilateral reality today.

Khan is Officer in Charge of the Policy & Mediation Division in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. He was also an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University and most recently a visiting fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo.