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Analyzes the territorial conflict in East Timor, showing that international law is being violated and that genocide has resulted; recommends that the case come before the International Court of Justice for settlement.

The author questions the meaning of the expression "peace-building" in circumstances following the perpetration of massive crimes. She stresses the specific difficulties raised by these kinds of situations to both analysts & professionals involved in the process, & puts forward a series of methodological proposals concerning the impact of massive crimes on social & political relations' reconstruction within societies torn by war. Also, the author underlines the relevance of having a better understanding of these processes in order to identify which assistance programs may be more effective, as those processes appear in specific sociopolitical contexts. In their attempt to approach this complex issue, analysts & professional come across two challenges. First, they must try to understand how the massive crime could have been committed. Second, they must identify the prospects of peace in the distressed society. For the social & political rules to function or, in other words, for all the actors to be willing to join the collective game, those prospects cannot be ignored. Peace building must include local techniques that, most of the times, have been evolving throughout time & have adopted different methods from other latitudes. Adapted from the source document.