How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article examines the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor as an unusual form of mediation, in which the international administration had to build a state and simultaneously reconcile a population with its former occupier. After summarising the conflict from Portuguese withdrawal through Indonesian occupation to the popular consultation of 1999, the author describes the mission as a test case for peacebuilding, faced with the absence
of any existing governmental structure. The article argues that mediation in such a setting differs fundamentally from negotiation…
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