Adérito Soares
Mr Adérito Soares
Adérito Soares was a member of Timor-Leste’s Constituent Assembly (2001-2002) and was the Inaugural Commissioner of Timor-Leste’s Anti-Corruption Commission (2010-2014). He holds an LLB from Indonesia and an LLM from NYU Law School (2003).
He has published on Timor-Leste internationally, including ‘A Social Movement as Antidote to Corruption’, in A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN (ANU E-Press, 2015); ‘Combating Corruption: Avoiding Institutional Ritualism’, in The Politics of Timor-Leste (NY, Cornell Uni. Press, 2013); ‘The Parallel and Paradox of Timor-Leste and Western Sahara’, in Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia (Singapore, ISEAS, 2012).
He is currently finishing his PhD at the ANU, Canberra. He has worked for various NGOs in Timor-Leste and Indonesia and as a consultant for international agencies.
Thesis topic:
Supervisor:
Future challenges for Timor-Leste
On 20th March the people of Timor-Leste elected Francisco Guterres of the FRETILIN party as their new President.
Current
The peacebuilding compared project
What are the kinds of interventions that create wars and make things worse for people? How can peacebuilding contribute to justice and development?
Completed
Building democracy and justice after conflict
Through national and international collaboration, Building democracy and justice after conflict sought to develop not only innovative theoretical models to ground international norms about governance
