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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strating, Rebecca (Author)
Contributors: Edmondson, Beth (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In:In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 34(2015), 3, Seite 37-64
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Keywords:
Demokratisierung
Timor-Leste
Rechtsordnung
Rechtsstaat
Rechtsbewusstsein
Politisches Bewusstsein
Gewalt
Selbstjustiz
Strafe
Wert
Traditionelle Kultur
traditionelle Gesellschaft
Frau
Hexenverfolgung
Menschenrechte
Südostasien