TLAVA: Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment

TLAVA (Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment) is an independent research preject by ActionAid and the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute and Development Studies.

http://www.actionaid.org.au/index.php/Emergencies-and-conflict/timor-leste-armed-violence-assessment.html
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/about/mission.html
http://graduateinstitute.ch/

Issue 1: Dealing with the Kilat (guns)
Issue 2: Groups, Gangs, and Armed Violence in Timor-Leste
Issue 3: Electoral violence in Timor-Leste
Issue 4: Tracking violence in Timor-Leste
Issue 5: After the guns fall silent

Farewell to Mr. Khare

Tempo Semanal
http://temposemanaltimor.blogspot.com/

Reading Reading Reading

Michelle Burgis, Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice: Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes.

Dr. Michelle Burgis finished her PhD at Australian National University, and this book is based on her PhD thesis. By describing how Third Worlds countries approached to "Western-written" international law from linguistic constructivist's point of view, this book rightly argues that international law is a discourse, and the argument which took place in ICJ was an attempt to draw boundary between 'us' and 'them'.

some blogs

http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/search/label/Susan%20Harris%20Rimmer
http://temposemanaltimor.blogspot.com/

The First Post

Recommended to start a blog by the advisor, finally created my blog. Hope to keep this daily at least while I am here with an internet access.

I would like to start this blog by introducing myself. I named myself tasi-bonita in for this blog. ('Tasi' means 'ocean' in Timorese language, and it is the first word I learned from my Timorese friend.) I study internaitional politics, at a university in Australia, with a specific focus on politics in and about Timor-Leste.

Having studied about the history of the country, I am very much puzzled by the complexity of power-relations in Timor ... I can never fully explain it! Now looking at 'peacebuilding in Timor', I cannot emphasize more the influence of contemporaly global politics to local politics. It is gross. I see a real intersection of gender, class, and race issues in contemporary politics in Timor-Leste. I am hoping to explain it as a scholar!