Acknowledgements

Flowers in the Wall is the end product of a larger project which aimed at contributing to policy discussions in Canada, and serves as the capstone to that larger project on Memory, Truth and Reconciliation. The project has been realized collaboratively between authors, a team at Bishop’s University, and with the support of members of two Canadian non-governmental organizations which work to connect Canada and the Asia Pacific region: the Pacific Peoples’ Partnership, based in Victoria BC and active in Indigenous rights campaigning across the Pacific; and the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, based in Montreal. Material related to this project is online at http://reconciliationtim.ca/http://reconciliationtim.ca/

This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, particularly through a Connections Grant that supported a workshop at the University of Ottawa held in 2015. Additional support was provided by Bishop’s University through the Senate Research Committee and the Crossing Borders Research Cluster—Indigeneity and Race Research Axis.

First thanks belong to the chapter authors, both those who offered their insights at the original Ottawa workshop and those who provided valuable contributions later. It has been a privilege to work with each of them. In addition, thanks are due to Bella Galhos, April Ingham, Micheline (Mika) Lévesque, and Melissa Marschke and her organizing team at the 2015 Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies CCSEAS conference. I am indebted for information, wisdom and connections shared by the post-CAVR technical secretariat, by friends in Dili, and by the wider global community active around human rights in Timor-Leste and Indonesia – and as always, to my family and especially to Sean, more than I can say.

The project would not have been possible without research assistance at Bishop’s University from Sarah Zwierzchowski, Cynthia Dawn Roy, and Nicholas Chlumecky. The University of Calgary Press team, especially Brian Scrivener, Helen Hajnockzy, Alison Cobra, Melina Cusano, and Ryan Perks, were tireless and supportive in seeing the project through to publication.

Chapter 3 previously appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies. Chapter 16 was first published in Indonesia. Some material draws on a working paper originally written for Active History (activehistory.ca).