<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Damien Kingsbury, 'National Identity in Timor-Leste: Challenges and Opportunities’, has
been published in South-East Asia Research Vol 18, No 1. March 2010. It
is also available on line:<br><a class="weblink" href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2010/00000018/00000001/art00005" target="browserView">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2010/00000018/00000001/art00005</a>
<br><br>Abstract:<br><br>Following a long independence struggle and
international intervention, in 2006 the tiny impoverished state of
Timor-Leste almost imploded in civil chaos and institutional collapse.
The events of the time were quickly defined in terms of an east-west
geographical and, broadly, linguistic and political divide,
corresponding to pro- and anti-government groupings. International
intervention quelled the worst of the violence, although elections in
2007 confirmed the general tendency, if not an absolute alignment, to
the divide that had appeared in 2006. However, much also united
Timor-Leste historically and culturally and, increasingly, in a broad
acceptance of civic institutions. It was from this base that the small
and sometimes fragile state began to build what promised to be a more
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