Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in
post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites …

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 …

Whilst it is increasingly recognised that socio-political contexts shape climate change
adaptation decisions and actions at all scales, current modes of development typically fail to …

Motivations to reform curriculum in post-conflict, or post-colonial states are often driven by
the need to (re) construct a cohesive and publicly legitimated national identity that is starkly …

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the
viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political …

The liberal peace project has dominated state-building operations since the end of the Cold
War, including in Timor-Leste. However, the attempt to institutionalise the liberal peace …

In recent years, the study and practice of political reconciliation has experienced a turn to
hybridity. This turn has been defined by the increased rate at which liberal international and …

This paper causally links petroleum dependence to political instability in develo**
countries through the three core characteristics of the rentier state—weak institutional …

" What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?" asks Lia Kent in this
exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor-Leste, a new nation …

Since 1999, communities across Timor-Leste have been engaged in what some observers
have described as a 'resurgence of custom'1 (Hicks 2007). This resurgence is most vividly …