[TimorLesteStudies] New Article: 'Who is My Friend, Who is My Enemy'? Youth and Statebuilding in Timor-Leste

[Bu Wilson]

Arnold, Matthew B.2009.'Who is My Friend, Who is My Enemy'? Youth and
Statebuilding in Timor-Leste. International Peacekeeping, Volume 16, Issue 3
June 2009 , pages 379 - 392 

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a912896508

Abstract
Timor-Leste was shaken by a violent national crisis from April 2006 to April
2008. This article examines the role that youths played in the crisis by
providing an empirical mapping of the groups involved and the dynamics
provoking youth participation in violence. Martial arts groups, ritual arts
groups and bairo youth groups were dominant in the street violence that left
Timor-Leste in turmoil, notably in Dili. The presence and agitation of their
members helped to escalate and perpetuate the crisis. This was facilitated
by the sheer scale of the groups' memberships, a fluid socio-cultural
situation caused by political unrest, and widespread discontent among a
young generation detached from the solidarity of Timor-Leste's resistance
era.

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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