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

Viroda Vipakshaya, General Fonseka and early presidential stakes

Image courtesy The political opposition in Sri Lanka seems freshly energized if recent events are anything to go by. The UNP has formed some form of a broader opposition coalition through the “Viroda Vipakshaya”…

Harim Peiris Harim Peiris on 06/13/201306/13/2013
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Features, International, International Relations, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka’s Global Vulnerability & the Devolution Conundrum

Photo courtesy The Hindustan Times/AP A society or state that demonstrates repeated violent convulsions over a fairly prolonged period such as decades does so because of a deep underlying problem. In the…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 06/06/2013
Features, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Spot Fixing Sri Lanka Style: Revisiting the Enumeration of Vital Events

Image courtesy Thuppahi blog In November 2011, Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, said that discovering how many civilians “died or went missing during the last few months of the conflict” would…

The Social Architects The Social Architects on 05/28/201305/29/2013
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Religion and faith

My Esteem for the Buddha: An open letter at Wesak to my Buddhist Sisters and Brothers

Photo courtesy Reuters My good friend, the Ven. Bellanwila Wimalarathana wrote a letter to Christians on his understanding of Christ at Christmas last year.  This has prompted me to reciprocate with this…

Bishop Duleep de Chickera Bishop Duleep de Chickera on 05/25/2013
Features, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Vavuniya

Land acquisition by the Sri Lankan Army in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts

Only one question. Why? Ask it. Repeatedly. Download the acquisition notices as a PDF here.

Groundviews Groundviews on 05/23/201305/23/2013
Colombo, Features, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Ganesan Nimalaruban: A murder and responses of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice

Photo courtesy Ganesan Nimalaruban’s murder in July last year wasn’t an issue for or comprehensively covered in the mainstream media in Sri Lanka. . Responses to the stories on both sites included a former…

Groundviews Groundviews on 05/23/201305/23/2013
Colombo, Features, Religion and faith

Use Vesak decorations to reflect upon Dhamma

Lord Buddha gave different meditation objects to different people. For some, just focusing on rubbing two pieces of material against each other worked, and for some others focusing on the breath worked….

Thrishantha Nanayakkara Thrishantha Nanayakkara on 05/21/201305/21/2013
Colombo, Features, Human Rights, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Reconciliation, Rights & Freedom: Four years after the end of war in SRi Lanka

Image courtesy It is now 4 years after the end of the war. The way we Sri Lankans will remember the end of the war is likely to demonstrate once again how…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 05/18/201305/20/2013
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

A New Political Regime Post-2010 in Sri Lanka: A Hybrid Regime

Image courtesy by Laksiri Jayasuriya, University of Western Australia Introduction The 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential and Parliamentary elections that took place shortly after the end of a debilitating 25 year-old civil war…

Laksiri Jayasuriya Laksiri Jayasuriya on 05/15/201305/20/2013
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Sri Lanka Today: Due Process & Civil Liberties or Security State?

Photo courtesy The Nation “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” ‘The Second Coming’, WB Yeats (1919) Must the Sri Lankan citizenry accept…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 05/09/201305/20/2013
Colombo, Features, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Rally for Unity: Standing up for an inclusive Sri Lanka

strongly endorsed a rally held in Colombo on Sunday to reaffirm the fact that Sri Lanka is not only a Sinhala-Buddhist country. As the movement’s Facebook event page noted, this non-partisan, non-violent…

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/28/2013
Colombo, Features, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Are you listening?

Image from Lanka Standard After nearly 7 years of postgraduate education and independent research experience abroad, I returned to Sri Lanka in mid 2003, to work in my mother country Sri Lanka…

Thrishantha Nanayakkara Thrishantha Nanayakkara on 04/16/201304/18/2013
Colombo, Features, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Sheep No More…

Image from video on the vigil, broadcast by News 1st. (A Personal Response to the quashing of the first anti BBS protest on Havelock Road) This evening (Friday, April 12th 2013) around…

SCT SCT on 04/13/201304/13/2013
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

A Tolerant Sri Lanka: Report on online poll

The past few weeks have seen a rise in incidents and publicly expressed sentiments against the Muslim community by groups who claim to represent the rights of Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka….

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/13/201304/13/2013
Colombo, Features, Human Rights, Human Security, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Police in Sri Lanka show their true saffron colours

Lest we forget, the Sri Lankan police, who act under the orders and protection of the Ministry of Defence, are far from doyens of impartiality. A few weeks ago, we noted that “it…

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/13/201304/13/2013

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