Crisis in Timor Leste: Looking Beyond the Surface Reality for Causes and Solutions
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2006
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Curtain, Richard
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Canberra, ACT: Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
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What caused the current upheaval in East Timor? The World Bank’s President, Paul
Wolfowitz, visited the country in early April, 2006 and hailed it as a model of post
conflict recovery. He praised Timor-Leste’s social and political harmony and stability,
due to the ‘country's sensible leadership and sound decision making which have helped
put in place the building blocks for a stable peace and a growing economy’.
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the World Bank did state in July 2005 in a major assessment of the state of the country
that: ‘Despite considerable progress, the current stability in Timor-Leste is fragile, and
the country remains vulnerable to conflict’.
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