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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"East Timor"”.
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Are Perceptions Reality? A Look at Subjective Well-Being in East Timor
… to answer this question using data from the 2001 Timor-Leste Living Standards Measurement Survey (TLSS). The survey asked respondents what is most important for improving life satisfaction with eleven variables to choose from. This is the measure of perceptions of life satisfaction and it is …
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Are Perceptions Reality? A Look at Subjective Well-Being in East Timor
… to answer this question using data from the 2001 Timor-Leste Living Standards Measurement Survey (TLSS). The survey asked respondents what is most important for improving life satisfaction with eleven variables to choose from. This is the measure of perceptions of life satisfaction and it is …
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New states challenged: education, peacebuilding and statebuilding in post-conflict Kosovo and East Timor
… I have conducted fieldwork in Kosovo and East Timor, two recent cases where major statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions have been launched. The research first has mapped education programming and reform by identifying the main actors that have been part of the process. Second, I …
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The development of a model of public management for East Timor: a framework for local governance
This study provided empirical evidence to support the point of view that selective models of local govemance as endorsed by multilateral donor agencies such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the IMF, can be applied in the specific situation of a developing country if they are …
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Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
… of international state-building in post-1999 East Timor. Contemporary literature on state-building and peace-building has largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various sources of data including field …
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Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
… of international state-building in post-1999 East Timor. Contemporary literature on state-building and peace-building has largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various sources of data including field …
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Banda Forearc Metamorphic Rocks Accreted to the Australian Continental Margin: Detailed Analysis of the Lolotoi Complex of East Timor
… and age investigations of the Lolotoi Complex of East Timor indicate that it is part of a group of thin metamorphic klippen found throughout the region that were detached from the Banda forearc and accreted to the NW Australian continental margin during Late Miocene to Present arc-continent …
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Origin and Tectonic Evolution of Gondwana Sequence Units Accreted to the Banda Arc: A Structural Transect through Central East Timor
… the origin of the Gondwana Sequence in the Timor Region, and to better constrain the tectonic evolution of the active Banda Arc. Our field studies and U/Pb zircon age analysis helped assign most units to either Asian or Australian affinity. Detrital zircon from uplifted Banda forearc units …
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Por uma pedagogia buibere: atuação política e diplomática das mulheres de Timor-Leste
… language, stories known to many people in East Timor - and to those interested in the country's politics - but which are often made invisible and forgotten in official records. The second objective is to carry out a case study that analyzes women's political activity, understanding it as …
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Sexual violence victim-witnesses at the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Have lessons from ICTR been learnt?
… Sudan, Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina), East Timor, to mention just a few.
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Redefining state sovereignty: The complexities of Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
… Recent interventions in states such as East Timor, Haiti and Kosovo had sparked off concern regarding the tension between sovereignty and the recognition of human rights norms which has for a long time 'raged' within academic institutions and the international community as a whole. In …
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Getting to the table : explaining the incidence of mediation in the insurgencies of Indonesia
… The state negotiated with Portugal over East Timor with the United Nations (UN) as mediator while negotiations with the Acehnese were first mediated by the Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HDC) and later the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI). Finally, the state refused any …
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Η ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΣΤΑ ΗΝΩΜΕΝΑ ΕΘΝΗ, (1974-1984): ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ
… TWO ISSUES: A) THE INTERNATIONAL CRISES (MIDDLE EAST, FALKLANDS, AFGANISTAN) AND B) THE DECOLONISATION (SOUTH AFRICA, RODESIA, W. SAHARA, EAST TIMOR, GIBRALTAR, MAYOTTE). IT IS PRECEDED BY A PRELIMINARY CHAPTER REGARDING THE METHODS OF VOTES ANALYSIS IN THE U.N. AND THE METHODOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS …
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The Security Role of ASEAN in the Asia-Pacific Region
… from the Sino-Russian border to Indonesian East Timor, and from Tibet to the South China Sea, potential exists for a resurgence of disputes that threaten to explode into open conflicts. In fact, regional security will probably worsen before any improvement is likely to occur. Any major …
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From Yugoslavia to Sierra Leone: advantages and shortcomings of the ad-hoc tribunals and the hybrid courts
… three hybrid court models, the Special Panels in East Timor, the Special Court in Sierra Leone and the Extraordinary Chambers in Cambodia. I measure the ad-hoc tribunals against their goals in order to evaluate their success and to compare them with the work of the hybrid courts. My findings are …
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About face : Asian representations of Australia
… with opinion leaders’ reaction to the crisis in East Timor; and the third presents a synthesis of recent Asian Australian fiction and what it reveals about Asian representations of Australia from inside Australian society. The thesis concludes that Australian policies and practices enable opinion …
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Human Rights, NGOs, and Foreign Policy: Case Studies of Japanese Foreign Policy Toward Indonesia and Myanmar and Efforts of Human Rights NGOs
… that work for human rights and democracy in East Timor and Burma and include an in-depth analysis of their operation styles, foci, and organizations.
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Harsh and Philanthropic War: U.S. Success and Failure in Third Party Counterinsurgency
… sovereignty relationships in places like Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone hold out the promise of more effectual strategies for state building in counterinsurgency interventions.
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The limits of state building : the politics of war and the ideology of peace
… to build its preferred institutions. In Bosnia, East Timor, and Kosovo, the international community established international administrations with executive powers and a state building mandate. Each international administrations had extensive authority, resources, and expertise, which make them …
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Mateship and the Australian Vietnam veteran
… to overseas countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor, Solomon Islands, and more recently Tonga. In particular the conflict and the continued presence of Australian servicemen and women in Iraq brings renewed discussion about the Vietnam War and comparisons with what many see as the …
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