Beyond Democratic Tolerance: Witch Killings in Timor-Leste

Newly democratising states experience challenges in reconciling “traditional†or “customary†dispute resolution practices with newly established state-based legal systems based on the rule of law. For Timor-Leste, these tensions are pronounced in continuing debates concerning the killing or in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rebecca Strating, Beth Edmondson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Online Access:http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/905