Kreung Ethnicity - United Nations in Cambodia

The villagers use Kanong in most of their dispute resolution activities. A Kanong
must be an honest person and serve as an impartial and effective intermediary.
A male Kanong whom villagers have asked to be spokesman in their conflict
resolution, will likely become a Krak Shrok Tatchin when he becomes older.
Individuals, who play important village roles as described above, are not part of
an official fixed structure in which everybody is obligated to fulfil and retain in a
specific role in the community. Villagers are not obliged to use a specific person
to solve their conflict. Instead, the traditional system operates in a volunteertype
structure in which villagers are free to request help and respond to requests
for help from anyone in the village. This includes the roles of the Kanong or
Krak Shrok in dispute resolution; those involved reserve the right to accept or
refuse to help others.
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