A People Rebuilding: East Timor Case Study Teacher's Notes Student Activities Locate East Timor on a regional map and undertake a brief historical study (personal research) to enhance the brief picture painted in the case study. Construct an East Timor timeline from the arrival of Portuguese through to the present. Click here for some information on East Timor's recent history. Research news media (print and audiovisual) for current East Timor focuses, noting the main themes of current activity to rebuild East Timor. Record and report on these themes. Research (by contact with identified humanitarian / aid and development agencies) the role of non-government agencies in the rehabilitation and rebuilding process. Develop clear descriptions of the concepts (categories of activity) of humanitarian aid, sustainable development, rehabilitation, refugee, repatriation, capacity building and human rights. Locate the various kinds of identified activity in East Timor under each of the above categories. Examine the main dimensions of the rebuilding process outlined in the case study, propose a priority order for their implementation, and provide an explanation for the priority order proposed. In hindsight what might have been done to ensure that the circumstances of the last two years in East Timor were more peaceful than they in fact turned out to be? If you were an influential and direct participant, how might you have acted to ensure peaceful transition? What factors now might interfere with peaceful transition to independence and how might they be dealt with? Consider what action the Australian community at large may take in order to assist the rebuilding of East Timor.   Top © Commonwealth of Australia