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Rebecca E. Engel

Rebecca E. Engel is an associate research scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She directed CICR’s Timor-Leste Program between 2001 and 2010, culminating in the establishment of a conflict early warning and early response system in the country. She provided policy support to the Timor-Leste government toward crisis recovery, and return and reintegration strategies, and currently serves as a senior adviser to BELUN, a national organisation working to advance conflict-sensitive development in Timor-Leste. Her research focuses on the role of the international community in post-conflict development and in particular the impact of international assistance on development and conflict in fragile states. Between 2005 and 2010 she taught an annual graduate seminar on Conflict Prevention and Development: Critical Connections at SIPA. She received her Master of International Affairs degree with a focus on International Conflict Resolution from SIPA, Columbia University in 2001 and is a doctoral candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Research areas: Asia

Publications

International Contributions to State-building in Timor-Leste: The Undermining of State Legitimacy?: Rebecca E. Engel , Luiz F. Vieira 8 August 2011
By May 2011 the international community[1] had accompanied Timor-Leste[2] through its first nine years of independence. The state’s wide-ranging and extensive partnerships with a diverse set of agencies and institutions have had important implications f... more