<p align="center" style="margin-right: 1.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(54, 95, 145);"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: white; letter-spacing: 1.2pt;">SSGM Seminar Series</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.4pt; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(227, 108, 10);"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: white;">Dili Dallying: State-Building in the Asia’s youngest country</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; color: white;"></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: white;">Dr Gordon Peake</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; color: white;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; color: white;">Visiting Fellow, SSGM</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: white;"></span></p><h1 align="left" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thursday 6 October 2011, 11.00am-12.30pm</span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">Seminar Room A, Coombs Building #9, cnr Garran & Fellows Rd, ANU</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Abstract</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the stroke of midnight <span class="yshortcuts">on May 20, 2002</span>, the <span class="yshortcuts">Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste</span> became the first new nation of the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. From that moment, those who fought for independence in the
jungle and from the soapbox have faced a challenge even bigger than
shaking off Indonesian occupation: running a country of their own. </p><p class="MsoNormal">In
this seminar, SSGM Visiting Fellow Gordon Peake will talk about the
book that he is writing on Timor-Leste. Blending narrative history,
travelogue and personal reminiscence based on four years living in the
country, the book picks up where world attention left off and shows the
daunting hurdles that the people of Timor-Leste must overcome to build a
nation from scratch, and how much the international community has to
learn if it is to help rather than hinder the process.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><b>Gordon Peake</b>
worked in Timor-Leste from 2007-11. He spent three of those years as an
adviser to the Australian Federal Police and spent the majority of that
time working in a Timorese government office, getting a real
on-the-ground sense of how a state is built. Prior to coming to
Timor-Leste, Gordon taught at Princeton University and worked at a
think-tank in New York where he co-edited a book about police reform
projects in the developing world entitled <i>Managing Insecurity: Field Experiences of Security Sector Reform</i>. He blogs on Timor-Leste issues at <i>The Lowy Interpreter</i>. </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">ALL WELCOME</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.35pt; text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span lang="EN-US">Seminar Coordinator: Richard Eves, SSGM, Tel: +61 2 6125 3275 </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US">Email: </span><a title="Compose mail to ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au"><span lang="EN-US">ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US">Web: </span><a href="http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US">http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm</span></i></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Palace Script MT";">Peta Hill</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Senior Program Administrator, SSGM Program</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">School of International, Political and Strategic Studies</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">College of Asia & the Pacific</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Phone: +612 6125 1527</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fax: +612 6125 9604</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ANU CRICOS provider code #00120C</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><br /><br />--<br signature="separator" />Dr Bu V.E. Wilson<br />T: Australia +61 0 407 087 086<br />T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011<br />E: buvewilson@gmail.com