The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess
how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level. Transitional justice …

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 …

This article explores the relationship between truth commissions and gendered citizenship
through a case study of Timor-Leste. It examines how, 10 years after the Commission for …

The social and political turmoil across 2006 to 2008, commonly known as the 'crisis',
reverberated through Dili and Timor-Leste, resulting in many deaths and injury, widespread …

Among policy-makers working in the field of peace-building, there is growing interest in how
initiatives to memorialise or commemorate the violent past might contribute to peace …

Despite investing significant resources, the practice of development has struggled to secure
positive, long-term outcomes for the people of Timor-Leste. More than a decade on from …

This thesis develops a critical account of encounters between customary and modern forms
of relationship to land in two Melanesian countries, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste …

Following dinner with some East Timorese friends in Dili mid-2011, one of the younger
women started to tell her story of 1999 and of the violence and destruction inflicted against …

Given the failure of many peace-building operations to ensure a sustainable peace, it is
perhaps not surprising that the prospect of retaliatory violence in post-conflict societies is …

Since gaining independence in 2002, the Government of Timor-Leste has struggled to tackle
the issue of food security despite most of the population continuing to be vulnerable to …