As Oliver Richmond explains, there is a level to peacemaking that operates in the realm of
dialogue, declarations, symbols and rituals. But after all this pomp and circumstance is …

Timor-Leste's long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a
short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book …

Joanne Wallis is a lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National
University. She has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of …

Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential
customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement …

Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the
last 25 years appear to be'failed by design'? This study explores the interplay of local peace …

ABSTRACT A little more than a decade after independence, the small island state of East
Timor is exhibiting the hallmarks of a neo-patrimonialist state. Since 2008, utilizing its …

After good many years living mostly in obscurity and cut off from international public opinion,
an isolation only briefly broken by echoes of such extraordinary events as the Santa Cruz …

In the new country of Timor-Leste, women constituted in 2011 32 per cent of the parliament,
a relatively high figure in the world and in the region. But to what extent has the presence of …

The Timor-Leste independence movement sustained a twenty-four year struggle against a
genocidal occupation by the Indonesian military dictatorship, from the Indonesian invasion …

In 2006 a security crisis in Timor-Leste caused the collapse of the police force, dismissal of
almost half of the army and the internal displacement of 150,000 people. The roots of the …