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Understanding Timor-Leste Hatene kona ba 2019 Compreender Volume I Steven Farram, Dulce Martins da Silva , Leonardo F. Soares, Nuno Canas Mendes, Clinton Fernandes, Mica Barreto Soares, Uka Pinto, Hannah Loney, Robert L Williams, Claudino Ninas Nabais and Michael Leach. Timor-Leste Studies Association tlsa www.tlstudies.org Hatene kona ba Timor-Leste 2019 Compreender Timor-Leste 2019 Understanding Timor-Leste 2019 Volume I 1 Proceedings of the Understanding Timor-Leste 2019 Conference, Liceu Campus, Universidade Nacional Timor- Lorosa’e (UNTL), Avenida Cidade de Lisboa, Dili, Timor-Leste, 27-28 June 2019. Edited by Steven Farram, Dulce Martins da Silva, Leonardo F. Soares, Nuno Canas Mendes, Clinton Fernandes, Mica Barreto Soares, Uka Pinto, Hannah Loney, Robert L Williams, Claudino Ninas Nabais and Michael Leach (eds). This collection first published in 2020 by the Timor-Leste Studies Association (www.tlstudies.org). Printed by Swinburne University of Technology. Copyright © 2020 by Steven Farram, Dulce Martins da Silva, Leonardo F. Soares, Nuno Canas Mendes, Clinton Fernandes, Mica Barreto Soares, Uka Pinto, Hannah Loney, Robert L Williams, Claudino Ninas Nabais, Michael Leach and contributors. All papers published in this collection have been peer refereed. All rights reserved. Any reproductions, in whole or in part of this publication must be clearly attributed to the original publication and authors. Cover photo courtesy of Lisa Palmer. Design and book layout by Susana Barnes. ISBN: 978-1-925761-26-9 (3 volumes, PDF format) 2 Contents – Volume 1 Lia Maklokek – Prefácio – Foreword 6 Lia Maklokek – CNC 8 Foreword – CNC 9 Dedication – Dr James Scambary 10 The Timor-Leste Studies Association 2005-2020: An Expanding Global Network 11 of Scholarship and Solidarity Clinton Fernandes, Michael Leach and Hannah Loney Hatene kona ba Timor-Leste 2019 17 1. Implikasaun Husi Projetu Greater Sunrise no Projetu Tasi Mane ba Sustentabilidade 18 Finansa Estadu Eliziaria Febe Gomes, Bree Ahrens 2. Analiza ba Impaktu Rejistrasaun Rai husi Sistema Nasionál Cadastro (SNC) 25 Mariano Ferreira 3. Obstaklu Multi-Dimensional Dezenvolvimento Feto iha Area Remotas 33 Timor-Leste: Feto Rural iha Munisipiu Ermera Dulce Martins da Silva 4. Orientasaun Merkadoria ba Dezempenhu Kompanhia: Estudu iha 43 Estasaun Ense Minarai (SEM) iha Timor-Leste Estanislau de Sousa Saldanha, Elizita Vilhena Gusmao, Domingos M.D. Barreto, Jorge Ribeiro Freitas, Teresa Freitas Belo 5. Orientasaun Empreendedorizmu ho Dezempenhu Finanseiru: 55 Estudu iha Industria Restorante iha Dili, Timor-Leste Jovelinho Januario Franklin B. de Sousa Saldanha, Alvaro Menezes Amaral Jorge Ribeiro Freitas, Estanislau de Sousa Saldanha 6. AMRT Nu’udar Fatin ne’ebé Dada Turista sira: Proposta kona-ba Roteiru 70 Sira Rezisténsia Nian Joana Matilde Gaio 7. Trauma iha Isin-Lolon: Uza Mapa Isin-Lolon hodi Komprende Konsekuensia 77 husi Konflitu Pasadu ba Feto Sobrevivente sira Manuela Leong Pereira, Celestina de Almeida, Anina Goncalves, Merita Manuela de Araujo, Umbelina Amaral Soares, Emily Toome 8. Feto Sira nia Istoria kona-ba Trauma no Rezilensia: Uza Video Hodi 83 Promove Empatia ba Fornesedor Saude sira Ne’ebe Responde ba Violensia Hasoru Feto Guilhermina de Araujo, Kayli Wild, Angelina Fernandes, Lidia Gomes, Angela Taft 9. Análiza Kona-bá Fenomena Kaben Sedu iha Timor-Leste 90 Leonardo F. Soares no Elia da Costa Araujo 10. Dezenvolvimentu Lia-Tetun Tuir Dalan Informál 96 Catharina Williams-van Klinken 11. Jíria: Ne’e U! 104 Justino da Silva, Cesaltina Tilman 12. Estudu kona-bá Risku Be’e Matan iha Komunidade 112 Leonardo F. Soares 13. Projetu Ai-han Di’ak ba Saúde Di’ak liu: Sumáriu Baseline, Outubru 2018: 120 Aileu, Baucau, Bobonaro no Covalima Katy Cornwell, Brian R. Hilton, Margy M. Dowling, Heather K. Grieve, Evangelita Pereira, Nuno Alves da Costa, Antonia de la Pena, Antonia de la Pena 14. Produsaun Jelatina husi Karau Baka Nia Ruin Uza Metodu Hidroliza 124 Felipe Xavier, Cristovão R. Belo, Juvencio de C. Ruas, Leonardo Monteiro 3 Compreender Timor-Leste 2019 134 15. A Compreensão do Professor de Ciências Físico-Naturais Sobre Conteúdo de 135 Ciência, Tecnologia e Outros Saberes na Luta Pela Sustentabilidade e as Suas Relações com o Contexto Social Timorense Câncio Mariano Freitas 16. Uso de Jogos de Dados no Desenvolvimento de Habilidades Cognitivas 142 e Competencias de Crianças da Educação Infantil de Santa Madalena De Canossa Maria Angelina do Carmo e Gaspar Varela 17. Será que o Inglês é Mais Fácil do que o Português? A Perceção dos Discentes 148 Timorenses Martinha Rodrigues R. S. Silva e Basília Aurélia Simões Estela S. Dos Santos 18. Análise Estatística do Desempenho Académico dos Estudantes da Faculdade 154 de Ciências Exatas da Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa´e Rosito Quintão, António Fernandes, Alfrendinho Barros, Romualdo Lopes, José Matias, Alexandrino Delgado, Samuel Freitas 19. O AMRT como Atracção Turística: Proposta de Roteiros 165 da Resistência Timorense Joana Matilde Gaio 20. Entre Tradição e Inovação: Como a Essência Artística Pode Potencializar A 171 Identidade e o Desenvolvimento do País Do Século Xxi: Timor-Leste Gisèle Bertin 21. Memória e Narrativa: Mário Viegas Carrascalão e os Trágicos Acontecimentos 177 de 1975 Rui Graça Feijó 22. Os Poderes do Presidente da República em Timor-Leste 187 Rui Feijó 23. Estado Timorense e Povos Timorenses: Qual a Relação? 193 Karin Noemi Rühle Indart 24. Tão Perto e Tão Longe: Timor-Leste e o Processo de Adesão à ASEAN 197 Tiago Machado, Sandrina Antunes e Alena Vieira 25. Estudos Paleoecológicos para Revelar a Dinâmica do Clima 206 Tropical e da Historia Humana ao Longo Prazo no Timor-Leste Larissa Schneider, Simon Connor, Frederico Carlos Maria dos Santos, Helio Cassimiro Guterres, Susan Rule, Michael Brand, Michael Bird, Simon Haberle 26. Algumas Plantas Medicinais Mencionadas em Práticas Fitoterapêuticas 211 Tradicionais de Timor-Leste José Sabino Xavier, e José Pinto Casquilho Understanding Timor-Leste 2019 216 27. Research, Language and the Colonization and Decolonization of Minds in 217 Timor-Leste Josh Trindade 28. Code Switching in University Classrooms in Timor-Leste 230 Adelina da Conceição Soares and Francisca Cecilia X. dos Santos 29. Communicating National Identity in Timor-Leste 236 Emanuel Braz 30. Planning Reproduction: Preparing for Life and the Future in Maubisse 243 Laura F. Burke 31. Australia Down Under: International Undergraduate Field Study of 249 Active Arc-Continent Collision in Timor-Leste Nicole Cox, Ron A. Harris and Stephen P. Carey 32. Mau-Lelo Bui-Lelo - A Ritual Performance by the Mambae of Hatubuiliku and its 260 4 Relevance to the Society it Originated from Today Ros Dunlop 33. Social and Political Dimensions of 1980s East Timorese Popular Music 267 Steven Farram 34. The Tribulations of a Dream: The Quest for Democracy in Timor-Leste 275 (1999-2019) Rui Graça Feijó 35. Deadly Rest: Proximity and the Dead in the Patterns of Burial in Dili, Timor-Leste 283 Damian Grenfell and Frederica Rosa 36. Personality Traits Affect the Career Advancement of Female Managers in the Hotel 288 Industry of Timor-Leste Helio Brites da Silva, Vimolwan Yukongdi and Marcos Taec Abi 37. Household Decision Making Process on Family Resources: A Case 296 Study in Viqueque Josh Trindade and Ivete de Oliveira 38. View of the Sustainable Development Goals from Organisations Operating 304 in Timor-Leste Jerry Courvisanos and Ameeta Jain 39. Identifying a Person’s Origin through their Pronunciation of Tetun Dili?: 311 Who Can Do It Norberto Gonçalves 40. Implications of Recent Changes to Timor-Leste’s Petroleum Fund 318 Charles Scheiner 41. Getting the Children Back to School: Primary Education during the Emergency in 331 East-Timor, October 1999-June 2000 Trina Supit 42. Hanesan Buat ida Xoke ita - East Timorese Conceptualisations 338 of Post-Conflict Trauma Emily Toome 43. Friendship for Development 346 Ann Wigglesworth and Alberto Barros 44. Teachers in Timor-Leste: Why Teach? 352 Marie Quinn and John Buchanan 45. Total and Complete Independence in Contemporary Timor-Leste: 360 Phantasmal Hopes Fernando Ximenes Gender Research in Timor-Leste 368 46. Reading the CHART Archives for Women’s Experiences during 369 the Indonesian Occupation Annie Pohlman 47. Curriculum Development in Timor-Leste: Results from the Pilot of WHO’s 375 Pre-Service Curriculum on Responding to Violence against Women and Children Kayli Wild, Lidia Gomes, Guilhermina de Araujo, Angelina Fernandes, Luisa Marcal, Angela Taft 48. Women’s Stories of Trauma and Resilience: The Use of Video Narratives in 382 Promoting Empathy for Health Providers Responding to Violence against Women Kayli Wild, Guilhermina de Araujo, Angelina Fernande and Lidia Gomes, Angela Taft 5 Lia Maklokek – Prefácio – Foreword Artigu sira ne’ebe tama iha volume ida ne’e aprezenta ona iha Timor-Leste Studies Association (TLSA) nia konferensia Hatene kona ba Timor-Leste 2019 ne'ebé realiza iha Universidade Nacional de Timor-Lorosa’e (UNTL) Kampus Liceu, Avenida Cidade de Lisboa, Dili, Timor-Leste, iha 29 no 30 Juñu 2019. Konferensia TLSA nian iha 2019 ne’e ba dala hitu (7), tuir konferensia sira ne’ebé hala’o ona iha Melbourne (2005) no Dili (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 no 2017). Partisipante Timoroan ho internasional sira 200 resin mak partisipa no apresenta ona sira nia estudus durante loron rua nia laran. Konferensia ida ne’e organiza iha dalen hat: Tetum, Portugues, Bahasa Indonesia no Ingles. Aproximasaun ida ne’e refleta diversidade linguistika iha Timor-Leste, no la’o ho suksesu boot. Iha konferensia 2019 ne’e, iha mos painel espesiais hat mak hanesan: “1999: Hafoin Tinan 20” konvokadu husi Clinton Fernandes no Mica Barreto Soares; “Peskiza Jéneru” organiza husi Hannah Loney no Uka Pinto; “Agrikultura” organiza husi Claudino Ninas Nabais no Robert Williams no “Dekoloniza Koñesimentu” husi Josh Trindade. Editor sira hakarak hato’o obrigadu barak ba UNTL, Swinburne University of Technology, no Universidade de Lisboa ba parseria ne’ebé halo konferensia ne’e sai posivel. Partikularmente hakarak hato’o ami nia agradesimentu ba Reitor UNTL, Professor Francisco Martins no Centro Nacional Chega! (CNC) ba sira nia apoiu jenerozu no ko-patrosínio ba konferensia 2019 ne’e.
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    Breaking the Cycle of Crises in Lebanon Grassroots Strategies of De-sectarianization Between 2015 and 2020 Sára Vértes 6854834 Utrecht University 30 July 2020 A Thesis submitted to the Board of Examiners in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts in Conflict Studies and Human Rights Breaking the Cycle of Crises in Lebanon | Sára Vértes Supervisor: Dr Chris van der Borgh Submitted: 30 July 2020 Program trajectory: Internship (15 ECTS) & Thesis (15 ECTS) Word count: 16188 Cover image: AFP (2020, February 5). Roula Abdo’s painted hands parting the wall blocking off the road up to parliament square in downtown Beirut [Photograph]. The National. i Breaking the Cycle of Crises in Lebanon | Sára Vértes ABSTRACT Inspired by the latest anti-establishment protests in Lebanon, this thesis investigates how and why a pattern of non-sectarian movements emerged in the country’s consociational context since 2015. The analysis zooms in on (i) the post-civil war evolution of Lebanon’s political economy and the grievances it exacerbated in citizens, and (ii) the strategies by which the new wave of movements re-negotiate their room for manoeuvre within the Lebanese political structure. In order to illustrate these grassroots strategies, the thesis describes and contrasts the discourse, as well as the concrete actions of two non-sectarian movements. First, a ‘civil society’ political coalition titled Kollouna Watani is introduced that challenged the established elites by competing in Lebanon’s 2018 general elections. Second, the mass protest movement starting in October 2019 is examined which demanded structural reforms in the country’s sectarian power-sharing order.