Author: Ian Martin
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588260338
Category : East Timor
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Scott (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.

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Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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This publication presents a short history of the United Nations involvement in East Timor. It describes the experiences of the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), set up prior to the landmark referendum of 1999. It also explains the establishment and early objectives of the United Nations Transitional Administration of East Timor (UNTAET). A photo gallery and chronology are included.

Author: John R. Ballard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313348421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Based on first-person accounts, interviews, declassified documents, and secondary background sources, this book gives readers insight into the significant actions and innovative techniques of the struggle for East Timorese independence from 1999 to 2006. The book begins with a two-chapter historical overview of the circumstances that caused the United Nations to intervene in East Timor in 1999, and then continues with a detailed account of the referendum on independence and the military operations required to restore order after the Timorese people decided upon freedom from Indonesia. In the final three chapters, Ballard describes the actions taken to support the first national elections, the writing of a constitution, and the formation of a new national government in East Timor. The final chapter compares UN operations in East Timor to previous operations in Somalia, Eastern Europe and Haiti, and outlines key lessons for the future, including the critical importance of economic development and good governance in fledgling states

Author: Shane Gunderson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498502350
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor examines the campaigns by people in the United States on behalf of those seeking peace for East Timor. The diplomatic work of voluntary advisors and supporters living in the United States in the early years of the movement have not been thoroughly explored until now. Through in-depth interviews with twenty activists and intellectuals involved in the East Timor movement from 1975-1999 and qualitative data analysis on information obtained from these interviews, this book explores “momentum” and “turning points” as perceptions in the minds of individual movement actors. The author takes readers through a combination of historical events that shaped social movement actors' attitudes and started a social movement momentum sequence in 1995. The East Timor All Inclusive Dialogue, the Timorization of Indonesia, the public outcries, organizational evolution, and a number of other turning points in the movement represented a series of successes that led to East Timor's independence.

Author: Michael Geoffrey Smith
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Smith analyzes the successes and failures of the complex UN mission designed to work in partnership with the East Timorese people in guiding the country to independence.

Author: Catholic Institute for International Relations
Publisher: Catholic Institute for International Relations
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Anne Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795455
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering. Seen in this context, the predominant Western models of rights generate a substantial but also problematic and not always emancipatory array of practices. These models are far from answering the questions about the nature of political community that are raised by the systemic infliction of suffering. Rather than a simple message from 'us' to 'them', then, rights promotion is a long and difficult conversation about the relationship between political organisations and suffering. Three case studies are explored - the Tiananmen Square massacre, East Timor's violent modern history and the circumstances of indigenous Australians. The purpose of these discussions is not to elaborate on a new theory of rights, but to work towards rights practices that are more responsive to the spectrum of injury that we inflict and endure. The book is a valuable and innovative contribution to rights debates for students of international politics, political theory, and conflict resolution, as well as for those engaged in the pursuit of human rights.

Author: James Dunn
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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With expert analysis and clarity of writing, James Dunn highlights the disturbing gap between the noble rhetoric and the heartless reality of international commitment and resolve East Timor: A Rough Passage to Independence is a story of political intrigue and the hidden world of international diplomatic deals. It is also the story of countless individuals, governments, and international bodies who, ultimately, pulled together to change the luck of this tiny island. From the days of colonial Portuguese rule, through the tumultuous years of the Indonesian invasion, to the present day this book is a disturbing portrayal of the complete failure of the international community to deal with the East Timor situation.

Author: Paula Escarameia
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ISBN: 9789729440182
Category : Annexation (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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