Let’s talk about conflict. Communal violence in Timor-Leste

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James ScambaryTimor Update

ANUJune 21-22, 2018

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• 2018 ‘Confrontation in Suai leaves one dead’• 2018 ‘One injured, five houses burned down’ Bobonaro’ • 2017 ‘21 houses burned down in Quelicai, Viqueque’ • 2013 ‘Four people killed, seven houses burned in

Ermera’• 2012 ‘Massacre in Bobonaro leaving 5 dead the result of

a land dispute’• 2012 ‘Three dead, 19 houses burned down in Quelicai,

Viqueque’• 2012 ‘One killed and seven houses set on fire in

Uatolari, Viqueque’• 2011 ‘One killed, 100 houses razed in Zumalai, Cova

Lima mob rampage’5

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Conflict cycle

Gangs

Personal Communal

Political

Conflict prevention programs

1. Department of Peacebuilding and Social Cohesion

2. National Directorate for Community Conflict Prevention

3. Belun Conflict Prevention and Referral Network

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