FOREIGN POLICAIDY  I'm writing this listening to a speech by Gareth Evans "Preventing and Resolving Deadly Conflict". Gareth Evans came to my attention when I was reading Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation building by Evan Gottesman. This is a worthwhile book for understanding the multidetermined nature of the conflicts in Khmer modern history. The book, and a pooh-poohed NGOcumentary The Trap of Saving Cambodia made me take serio...

Wow, really counting down the entries now. A month to go of my placement! This is the last of three quick catch up entries to get back on schedule. This Wednesday I'll push out another entry about how my placement has been going.This is another catch up, and trip, report (short video if you can't be bothered reading ;-)). I visited another friend from Master's, this time in Hanoi. I went there with yet another friend from the same course, who lives in...

This is another catch up entry, chronicling a trip to Kuala Lumpur. I visited another friend from Master's, he's probably the most successful of all of us and he's not even working in GIS! One day I'll learn how to be like him...It was really lovely going to Kuala Lumpur. It was my first trip out of Cambodia since I'd arrived, and it was high time I got out. I had a massive overload of modernity, staying right in the centre of town 5 minutes w...

This is a catch up entry, covering a trip with mates to Mondulkirri and Kratie. We did a four day trip on motos, route took us on Highway 6A, 7 then 76 to Sen Monorom in Mondulkirri where we stayed two nights in Nature Lodge. We did a little trip from there to Busra Waterfall, quite large and popular especially with the locals. We saw a photography company doing a healthy trade there dressing tourists up in traditional clothing for photos in front of the falls. T...

Ok, just finished my second quarterly report. Below I include a number of extracts by way of an update, including some coverage of the differences between analysing census and sample data. I also detail the 5th Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup. And, the rains have come! It's been bucketing down for a solid 40 minutes. Time to trade the bike in for a boat...Names are anonymised according to the following convention: male's name = Jim n, female's name = Jill n...