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Author: Darini Rajasingham Senanayake

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Colombo, Development, Economy, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Sport

Facades of Development: Of Commonwealth Games and Drag Racing at Green Path

We woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of screeching tires, booming exhausts and the smell of burning rubber recently. My cousin’s children had nightmares and could not…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 11/05/201111/04/2011
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Identity, Long Reads, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, UN Panel Report

Notes on Possibilities after the UN Report: Including Nationalism and ‘The Geopolitics of Emotion’

Photo courtesy Deborah Philip It was my sense after May 18, 2009 when the LTTE was defeated that Sri Lanka was missing an opportunity to redefine itself as part of a kinder,…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 05/01/201105/04/2011
Colombo, Development, Economy, Features, Long Reads, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Lanka @ 63: The ‘military business model’ of post-war economic development

On 4 February, Sri Lanka celebrated its 63rd birthday. After nearly three decades of armed conflict, it is now one of Southasia’s calmest and fastest-growing countries. Its social indicators, apart from the…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 02/27/201102/28/2011
Colombo, Diaspora, End of war special edition, Human Security, Identity, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Fighting Windmills? Diaspora and Militarism in Post-Conflict Lanka

“Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 05/27/201005/26/2010
Colombo, Development, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Trincomalee

After the Elections: Demilitarize Development for Sustainable Peace

“Counter-terrorism is terrorism’s best ally.” –Joseba Zulaika in “Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy” (2009) On April 12, 2010 the majority of citizens of the island’s two main linguistic communities celebrated the “Sinhala and…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 05/12/2010
Colombo, Economy, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Post-conflict Transition and Aid Effectiveness: Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka – Part 2

[Editors note: Read Part 1 of this article here.] Economic and Governance Challenges in Post-conflict Areas The Rajapakse government is increasingly dovetailing its policies to make Lanka a destination of Indian and…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 10/23/200910/22/2009
Colombo, Economy, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Post-conflict Transition and Aid Effectiveness: Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka – Part 1

In the heydays of the Non-Aligned Movement Sri Lanka’s politicians and diplomats wielded an influence disproportionate to the county’s size on the international stage. However, the last 30 years of armed conflict…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 10/22/2009
Colombo, Human Security, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

De-militarizing Democracy and Governance in Sri Lanka: From National Security to Human Security

Sri Lanka was once a ‘model democracy’ with a welfare state and social indicators that were the envy of the developing world. Hence, there was great optimism that life would return to…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 07/09/200907/08/2009
Economy, Politics and Governance

The Aid Game and the Politics of Humanitarianism

The US government, which wields considerable influence at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has sought to delay Sri Lanka’s USD 1.9 billion loan appeal. Washington’s hesitance is tied to the context of…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 06/03/200906/03/2009
Colombo, Foreign Relations, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

India, Sri Lanka and the Minority Question

Spontaneous street parties broke out, fireworks crackled in the air and strangers offered flowers to  soldiers to celebrate the news in Colombo – Asia’s Idi Amin was no more! One of the…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 05/23/200905/23/2009
Colombo, Jaffna, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The ethics and politics of war zone writing

On 24 April 2005 Dharmaratnam Sivaram, (‘Taraki’) editorial board member of the website Tamilnet, was found shot dead from gunshot wounds to the head several hours after four unidentified persons had abducted…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 04/23/200904/21/2009
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

To Win the War and Lose the Peace: Beyond Sri Lanka’s ‘War on Terror’

It looks like one of the more winnable conflicts in an age of the global ‘war on terror’. The Sri Lankan government appears to be on the brink of announcing victory in…

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Darini Rajasingham Senanayake on 01/26/200901/23/2009

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