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CHAPTER VI
ASEP 2019 - Cambodia
Sustainable Peace Building
August 1st – August 6th, 2019
T range of activities aimed at fostering
he Asian Students Environment Platform
(ASEP) returned for another successful cross-cultural dialogue, exploring
occasion from August 1st to August 6th, sustainable development practices, and
2019. ASEP 2019 had embarked on a proposing solutions for environmental
journey to Cambodia, a land steeped in challenges. Participants were immersed in
history and cultural significance, to explore a series of engagements, including campus
the theme of Sustainable Peace Building. tours, lectures, site visits, and group
Against the backdrop of the Mekong – discussions, culminating in final
Japan Exchange Year 2019, ASEP 2019 presentations that addressed the concept
aimed to delve into the double meanings of Sustainable Peace Building in the
embedded within its theme, focusing on Cambodian context. Through this
both the physical structures that promote collaborative platform, ASEP 2019 aimed to
peace and the actions necessary to create empower participants to become catalysts
sustainable peace through design and for positive change in their communities
development. Hosted by the Royal and beyond, promoting a vision of peace
University of Phnom Penh, with assistance that is rooted in sustainability and
from Waseda University, Sophia University, environmental stewardship.
and the Remote Sensing Technology
Centre of Japan, ASEP 2019 brought
together 10 prestigious universities from
across Asia. These universities included the
Royal University of Phnom Penh
(Cambodia), Tsinghua University (China),
Universitas Indonesia (Indonesia), Waseda
University (Japan), Korea University (Korea),
Universiti Malaya (Malaysia), Yangon
University of Economics (Myanmar),
University of the Philippines (Philippines),
Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), and
Vietnam National University, Hanoi
(Vietnam). During the six-day program, the
participants had partaken in a diverse
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