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=== Publications === The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), an independent research institute, published ''[[A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975β1979)|A History of Democratic Kampuchea 1975β1979]]'',<ref name="DDCam History" /> the nation's first textbook on the history of the Khmer Rouge.<ref name="dccam.org">{{cite web|title=Providing Genocide Education|publisher=Documentation Center of Cambodia|url=http://www.dccam.org/#/theorganization/worktodate|access-date=22 April 2012|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212034404/http://www.dccam.org/#/theorganization/worktodate|url-status=live}}</ref> The 74-page textbook was approved by the government as a supplementary text in 2007.<ref name="mediakh.net">Khateya. [http://mediakh.net/khmer-news/trials-tribulations-and-textbooks-govt-dc-cam-review-kr-teaching/ "Trials, tribulations and textbooks: Govt, DC-Cam review KR teaching"]. ''Khmer Media''. 21 January 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2013. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327221143/http://mediakh.net/khmer-news/trials-tribulations-and-textbooks-govt-dc-cam-review-kr-teaching/|date=27 March 2014}}.</ref> The textbook is aiming at standardising and improving the information students receive about the Khmer Rouge years because the government-issued social studies textbook devotes eight or nine pages to the period.<ref name="mediakh.net" /> The publication was a part of their [[genocide education]] project that includes leading the design of a national genocide studies curriculum with the Ministry of Education, training thousands of teachers and 1,700 high schools on how to teach about genocide and working with universities across Cambodia.<ref name="dccam.org" /> Youth for Peace,<ref name="yfp">http://www.yfpcambodia.org/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629083447/http://www.yfpcambodia.org/ |date=29 June 2012 }} Youth for Peace</ref> a Cambodian [[non-governmental organization]] (NGO) that offers education in peace, leadership, conflict resolution and reconciliation to Cambodia's youth, published a book titled ''Behind the Darkness:Taking Responsibility or Acting Under Orders?'' in 2011. The book is unique in that instead of focusing on the victims as most books do, it collects the stories of former Khmer Rouge, giving insights into the functioning of the regime and approaching the question of how such a regime could take place.<ref>{{cite book|last=Khet|first=Long|editor=Youth for Peace|title=Behind the Darkness: Taking Responsibility or Acting Under Orders?|publisher=Youth for Peace|year=2011|page=i|chapter=Preface}}</ref>
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