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Understanding and Strengthening Resilience for Peace: Timor-Leste Final Report - Frameworks for Assessing Resilience

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1. INTRODUCTION

Frameworks for Assessing Resilience (FAR) is a programme initiated by Interpeace, implemented between 2014 and 2016 with local partners in Guatemala, Liberia and Timor-Leste. The goal of the FAR programme is to understand resilience to violent conflict from a local perspective and to determine how existing capacities for resilience can be leveraged and strengthened to better contribute to sustainable peace.

Over the course of eighteen months, the programme in Timor-Leste has sought to identify and promote resilience sources and capacities through an inclusive and participatory process that engaged communities at the grassroots as well as representatives of government institutions and civil society organisations.

Between April 2014 and December 2015, CEPAD led a multi-phased process to better understand the sources of resilience in Timor-Leste. Subsequently, a multi-stakeholder national working group was convened to articulate recommendations to strengthen these factors of resilience with a view to promoting greater social cohesion and peace in the country. The programme consisted of three key phases which were an in-depth nationwide consultation through focus groups and interviews, a nationwide survey polling close to 3000 respondents which was implemented by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), national validation forums and a sustained dialogue process with a national working group. This has generated rich qualitative and quantitative data, analysis, recommendations and paths for action to better understand and strengthen resilience for peace. The following report brings together and discusses these results.

Because the term ‘resilience’ cannot be translated into Tetum language, CEPAD defined this as the resources or glue that, until today, has held Timorese society tightly together to confront conflict from the past, or conflict that will arise in the future with capacities to adapt and transform.

This report is the final output of the FAR programme in Timor-Leste. Additional outputs are the Timor-Leste Country Note entitled; ‘Understanding Resilience from a Local Perspective’ which was published by CEPAD in April 2015, and the ‘Population-Based Survey on Attitudes and Perceptions About Resilience And Peace’, which was published by HHI in April 2016.