Timor-Leste
Global Lessons: Indigenous Languages and Multilingualism in School Programs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Samantha Disbray
Carolyn Barker
Arathi Raghunathan
Faith Baisden
Description
Discusses how multilingual instruction can assist in reviving and preserving traditional languages and looks at language program types and outcomes, community activities, structural support, and teacher training in the context of case studies from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Timor-Leste.
Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sue E. Jackson
Lisa R. Palmer
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Water and Indigenous Peoples, 2012, pp. 1-25
Description
Reports on the institutions and negotiations by which indigenous peoples are striving to confirm their access to water rights.
Reconciliation as Ritual: Comparative Perspectives on Innovation and Performance in Processes of Reconciliation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roxana Waterson
Humanities Research, vol. 15, no. 3, Decolonising Testimony: On the Possibilities and Limits of Witnessing, 2009, pp. 27-47
Description
Comments on the merits of truth and reconciliation commissions versus criminal proceedings.
Truth Commissions: A Schematic Overview
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Priscilla B. Hayner
International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 88, no. 862, June 2006, pp. 295-310
Description
Mainly consists of tables.
Table 1: country, years of operation, dates covered, and creating body.
Table 2: country, key language or terms of reference, principle acts documented, and violations not investigated.
Table 3: commissioners, number of staff, budget, number of cases presented, and name of final report.