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Colombo, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

The Weliweriya violence: Documenting the inconvenient for posterity

Image courtesy NAFSO The archiving of tweets documenting the violence in Weliweriya began after a reader, @apelankawe, asked us to do so. @groundviews any plans of archiving #weliweriya tweets? — Vidura (@Apelankawe)…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/09/201309/09/2013
Economy, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Post-War

Causes of “Boat Migration” to Australia from Sri Lanka A Rejoinder to Emily Howie

The “Special Article” on illicit migration to Australia by boats from Sri Lanka by Emily Howie (2013) in the Economic and Political Weekly (August 31) appears to be based largely on lot…

Muttukrishna Sarvananthan Muttukrishna Sarvananthan on 09/08/201309/08/2013
Colombo, Religion and faith, Youth

Disarming the juggernaut of religious intolerance in Sri Lanka

Photograph courtesy The youth of Sri Lanka express their dismay and alarm over the apparent surge in religious intolerance and communal discord that has permeated our society in the post-LTTE era and…

Sachin Parathalingam Sachin Parathalingam on 09/07/201308/23/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, International, International Relations

Any lessons learnt from Navi Pillay’s visit?

Reading what appeared on state media, I got the impression that the ego of the Government, or at least that of the so called “independent” editors of state media has been challenged…

Thrishantha Nanayakkara Thrishantha Nanayakkara on 09/07/2013
30 Years Ago, Colombo, Features, Remember the Riots

‘Black July’ now available for download on iTunes

is pleased to announce that ‘Black July‘, an edited volume anchored to articles originally published on this site, is now available for download on Apple’s iTunes bookstore in 51 stores globally. The volume is…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/07/201309/07/2013
Development, Jaffna, Politics and Governance

Why is land a fundamental issue to the Tamils?

Introduction President Jayewardene did not like the word ‘colonisation’. Instead, he preferred the terms ‘land settlement’. But the Land Settlement Ordinance uses ‘settlement’ to mean a settlement on claims over ‘land’.  Item…

Dr. K. Vigneswaran Dr. K. Vigneswaran on 09/05/2013
Peace and Conflict

Where does G.L. Peiris get his facts on militarisation in Sri Lanka?

“One of the biggest gaffes by an External Affairs (Foreign) Minister in post-independent Sri Lanka” is how the in April last year chose to describe a remark by Sri Lanka’s current Foreign…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/04/201309/04/2013
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

How we can have a just peace: The postwar discourse in Sri Lanka

The last part of the background note  prepared for the first session of the Marga Institute’s panel discussion on ‘Long War, Cold Peace’ contained  the conceptual framework which  Dr Jayatilleka uses for…

Godfrey Gunatilleke Godfrey Gunatilleke on 09/03/201309/03/2013
Colombo, Environment

Rape of the Giants

Do you remember what a large tree looked like? Once they were all around us, not just the forest giants like the Hora or Palu, but the fine old Mango and Jak…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 09/02/2013

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