Essays about: "East-Timor"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word East-Timor.
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1. A trinitarian analysis on how The United Nations Security Council failed to protect Timor-Leste's Independence and Human Rights through political action 1960-1999
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : The aim of this study is to research how the United Nations (UN) through the Security Council (SC) failed to act politically to protect the independence and human rights of Timor-Leste 1960-1999. 1960 Timor-Leste was acknowledged by the UN as a non-self-governing territory and so remained until the referendum of independence 1999. READ MORE
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2. The local-turn critique and its implications: A case study of Cambodia and East-Timor
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Inspired by recent criticism of liberal peacebuilding and the academic debate revolving around the effect of the local-turn on peacebuilding operations, this thesis aims to leave the general realm of the debate behind and demonstrate how all this manifested in two particular peacebuilding operations. Through the case of Cambodia and East-Timor the thesis demonstrates, that even though the overall strategy adopted by the United Nations was heavily top-down structured, on many instances they made significant efforts to cooperate with local actors, and thus the criticism of liberal peacebuilding on the lack of cooperation with the local are exaggerated. READ MORE
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3. Political Motivation and Annexations: A comparative study of the political motivation to annex a sovereign territory.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Unveiling political motivation as a feature in the actions of states has since the mid 20th century been a rising subject of interest in the academic research of International Relations. Research has predominatly focused on the incidence of war as a method to foster domestic support, however the manifestation of political stimulus streches past these events. READ MORE
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4. Processes of feelings in a society with a violent past : A qualitative study of the communication for Societal healing in the Truth Commissions in East Timor, Sri Lanka and Ghana between 2002-2011
University essay from StatsvetenskapAbstract : The research investigates in what extent and how communication for meeting feelings is provided in Truth Commission work. It examines if and in what way feelings are addressed in the communication officially published by the Truth Commissions in East Timor, Ghana and Sri Lanka, occurring between 2002-2011. READ MORE
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5. The State of the Nation in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Shape of the Nation through the Perspectives of Timorese Youth
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : With the new governing structures created through the transitional administration of the United Nations (UN), old and new fault lines in the past decade have exposed themselves in Timor-Leste: rural-urban divides, generational divides, communal divides, and political divides. This paper utilises Anthony D. READ MORE
