Speakers

Julio Tomas Pinto

(Secretary of State for Defence, Timor-Leste)

Keynote: Security, Development and the Nation-Building Agenda in Timor-Leste

James Baker

(Colonel, Australian Defence Force, former Force Commander in Timor-Leste)

"The Australian Defence Force in East Timor: Issues and Challenges"

M Anne Brown

(Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, UQ)

"Security, Development and the Nation-Building Agenda: Timor-Leste"

Hernani Coelho da Silva 

(Timor-Leste's Ambassador to Australia)

Official Opening of Workshop

Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

(Political and International Studies / Women's Studies, Flinders University)

"The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: A case study of gender and politics in Los Palos, Timor-Leste"

James Coy

(United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste)

"The UN's role now and in the future"

Fiona Crockford & Antonio Vitor

(Policy Officer, AusAID; AusAID Dili)

"Enfranchising Youth as Citizens in Timor-Leste: Towards an integrated program of youth, gender and peace building"

Darian Clark 

(Country Program Manager, Service Delivery, AusAID)

"Building Food Security in East Timor"

Gour Dasvarma

(Population Studies, Flinders University) 

"Demography of a New Nation: Timor Leste"

Grant Edwards

(International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police)

Andrew Goldsmith & Vandra Harris

(Flinders Law School)

Vandra Harris web site

"Multilateral Police Missions in Nation-Building"

Mark Green

(Timor-Leste Country Director, Caritas)

"NGOs, International Agencies and the Relationship Between Development and Culture"

Laura Grenfell

(Law Lecturer, University of Adelaide /  PhD Candidate, ANU)

"Promoting the Rule of Law in Timor-Leste"

 Bob Lowry

(Independent consultant specialising in regional security matters)  

Andrew Marriott

(Legal Advisor, Judicial System Monitoring Project; PhD Candidate, Deakin University)

"Justice Sector Reconstruction and the Legal Profession in Timor-Leste"

Freya Merrick

(NGO worker)

"Working Ourselves Out of a Job: Transition strategies to Timorese-owned development"

Sara Niner

(Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Monash University)

"The Contested Place of Women in East Timorese Society"

Andrew Rosser

(Development Studies, University of Adelaide)

"Timor-Leste's Vulnerability to the Resource Curse: An assessment" 

Janelle Saffin

(MP; Chair, Australia/Timor-Leste Parliament Group)

"The Capacity Builders"

James Scambary

(Consultant)

"Informal Security Groups and the 2006-2007 Communal Conflict in East Timor"

Michael G Smith

(Major General, Retd; Executive Director, Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence)

"The Civil-Military Interface: Implications for Timor-Leste"

Josh Trindade

(Consultant)

"The Youth and their 'Alien' Nation: The disorientation of the 'lost generation' in Timor-Leste"