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Author: Nigel Nugawela

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Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Polls

NO WAY, MR. RAJAPAKSA

Photo by AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, via Japan Times A slogan from one of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s campaign websites for tomorrow’s election reads, “Let’s start afresh”. Looking at it harder, the slogan is as…

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 08/16/2015
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Science and Technology

Stand Athwart Censorship in Sri Lanka

In Tom Stoppard’s superlative play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Ros shouts “Fire!” and when questioned by Guil, Ros reassuringly responds, “It’s all right – I’m demonstrating the misuse of free speech….

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 07/18/201207/18/2012
Colombo, Features, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

LIVE AMMUNITION AND CITIZEN ENEMIES

Photo courtesy www.dbsjeyaraj.com If the time ever does come for a comprehensive evaluation of security policies and legislation adopted during the privation and emergencies of war and the peacetime ‘stability’ of a…

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 02/17/201202/25/2012
Advocacy, Colombo, Education, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Youth

‘BE YOUNG AND SHUT UP!’: A COURSE IN CIVIC DISENGAGEMENT

‘Sois Jeune et Tais Toi’ – Be Young and Shut Up, May 1968. Image from  Qwiki.   It is always intriguing to revisit the ideas of Paul Goodman; not exclusively for his writing…

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 06/11/201109/30/2011
Peace and Conflict

A review of the Gaza Monologues

Photo courtesy of Ruvin de Silva , 2010 ‘I feel that all of Gaza is sitting on moving sands. Any madness you can imagine can happen in a second in this place,…

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 11/28/201012/01/2010
Peace and Conflict, Post-War

Happy International Peace Day

Click for larger image. Photographs above are of the Separation Wall at the Bethlehem-Jerusalem border in Israel. When I took these pictures last year, I knew I was standing in front of…

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 09/21/200903/30/2010
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Have we faltered in Sri Lanka?

‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Edmund Burke Pictures of Sri Lankans mourning the victims of the bomb blasts in the past…

Nigel Nugawela Nigel Nugawela on 08/02/200805/31/2010

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