[TimorLesteStudies] New Article: UNPOL and Police Reform in Timor-Leste: Accomplishments and Setbacks

[Bu Wilson]

Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas. 2009.UNPOL and Police Reform in Timor-Leste:
Accomplishments and Setbacks International Peacekeeping, Volume 16, Issue 3
June 2009, pages 393 - 406 

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a912900858


Abstract
Following the 2006 gang violence in Timor-Leste amid dissension between the
two main security institutions in the country, the Timor-Leste Defence Force
(F-FDTL) and the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL), the UN Security
Council adopted Resolution 1704, establishing a UN multidimensional,
integrated mission, including UN police with an executive policing mandate,
to ensure the restoration and maintenance of public security. With the
mission winding down in 2009, this article offers an early assessment of its
accomplishments and setbacks in the realm of security and public order,
emphasizing the UNPOL leg of the mission. If the mission succeeded in
restoring a modicum of security in Timor-Leste, it fell short of effectively
assisting the PNTL reform process, implying that another security crisis
erupting in the country cannot be ruled out.

Bu Wilson
Regulatory  Institutions Network (RegNet) Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies
College of Asia and the Pacific,
Australian National University 
Canberra   ACT   0200 
AUSTRALIA 

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