Engaging Processes of Sense-Making and Negotiation in Contemporary Timor-Leste

Tracking violence in Timor - Leste

The Catholic Church and reproductive health and rights in Timor-Leste: contestation, negotiation and cooperation.

In Timor-Leste, high fertility, high maternal mortality and low levels of contraceptive prevalence demonstrate the importance of exploring perceptions, policies and practices around reproductive health and rights. This paper explores the influence of the Catholic Church on reproductive decision-making at different levels of policy and practice. Utilising a feminist qualitative research methodol...

Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future: Memory Frictions and Nation-Making in Timor-Leste

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. Monuments, memorials, museums and commemorative rituals are now conceptualised as a form of ‘symbolic reparations’ that will contribute to victims’ healing (see Hopwood 2011). It is argued, too, that these sites and pr...

Influences and Echoes of Indonesia in Timor-Leste

Since 1999, when a United Nations (UN) transitional administration was established in the wake of the East Timorese vote for independence from Indonesia, the case of Timor-Leste has been a relative mainstay in research and policy debates on post-conflict reconstruction (Call and Wyeth 2008; Hood 2007; Svoboda and Davey 2013). TimorLeste is often characterised by scholars as a ‘postconflict’ cou...

Prelacteal feeding of newborns in postconflict Timor-Leste.

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of prelacteal feeding and its associated factors in Timor-Leste using updated data from the national survey. METHODS Complex sample analysis was undertaken to account for the 2-stage cluster design of the Demographic and Health Survey 2009-2010. Backward stepwise logistic regression was conducted to ascertain factors as...