ABOUT AUTHORS

Adilsonio da Costa Jr is a Timorese researcher at La’o Hamutuk Non-Governmental Organization in Timor-Leste. Antero Benedito da Silva is a Timorese researcher and human rights defender. Also, he is the Director and Professor at Peace and Conflict Studies Center/National University of Timor Lorosa’e (Timor-Leste). Bob Boughton is an Australian researcher and Professor at Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education/University of New England (Australia). Elsa J. Araujo Pinto is a Timorese researcher and human rights activist. Also, she is a Master`s student at Victoria University (Australia). Irlan von Linsingen is a Brazilian Professor and researcher in Social Studies of Science and Technology and Decolonial Studies at Post-graduate program in Science and Technology Education/ Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) Michael Leach is an Australian Professor and researcher in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Social Science at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) Pamela Sexton is an American (U.S.A.) International researcher at La’o Hamutuk Non-Governmental Organization in Timor-Leste. Samuel Penteado Urban is a Brazilian researcher and human rights defender at Amnesty International (Activism group in Natal/Brazil) and Timor-Leste. Also, he is a Professor at the Department of Education/State University of Rio Grande do Norte, advanced campus of Patu (Brazil).