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End of war | 5 years on

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Cartoon, Colombo, End of war | 5 years on

Cartoon: Reconciliation Process

Click here for larger version. ### This article is part of a  larger collection of articles and content commemorating five years after the end of war in Sri Lanka. An introduction to…

Wasantha Siriwardena Wasantha Siriwardena on 05/28/201405/28/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

War, Peace and the Manufacturing of Rajapaksa Myths

Photo courtesy the Lankans in general are distressingly indifferent to the plight of the country’s most majestic mammal, the elephant. But an unaccustomed wave of public outrage ensued when a plan to…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/28/2014
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, End of war | 5 years on, Identity, Long Reads, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

OVERCOMING THE POST-WAR MALAISE: WHY SRI LANKA NEEDS A REFORM MINISTRY AND WHAT IT SHOULD DO

 [Photo credit: The Empire Youth Annual, 1952] “For centuries the Sinhalese and the Tamils have lived together in peace and amity. We have been governed by their kings and they by ours…

Asanga Welikala Asanga Welikala on 05/27/201405/27/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Politics of Quotations: Concluding Rejoinder to Dayan Jayatilleka

Image courtesy RNW In this concluding rejoinder to my friend Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka I shall begin by what appears to me to be the core of our dispute, i.e. Dayan’s highly problematical…

Vangeesa Sumanasekara Vangeesa Sumanasekara on 05/26/201405/26/2014
Colombo, Culture, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Bringing Politics to the Stage: Observations on Post-War Political Theatre in Sri Lanka

Image courtesy Floating Space production of ‘My Other History‘ During the summer of 2010 I was tasked to assist a foreign post graduate student to conduct her research on Sri Lanka’s post war theatre.…

Chandula Kumbukage Chandula Kumbukage on 05/26/201405/18/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

THE STATE AND WAR: THE POLITICS OF PHILOSOPHY

Photo by REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte, via Channel 4 Concluding rejoinder to Vangeesa Sumanasekara – Slavoj Zizek In the beginning was politics. Marx’s favourite figure in literature was Prometheus. The better known version of…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 05/24/2014
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, End of war | 5 years on, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Understanding the National Question as a Pre-Democratic Problem: A Skeptical Note on the Southern Reform agenda

Photo by AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, via FT.com Five years after the end of the war, the Government has now started arguing that the war is not over. The Government doesn’t think the…

Kumaravadivel Guruparan Kumaravadivel Guruparan on 05/24/201405/17/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Politics and Governance

On Christian Essentialism, Structural Correspondences and Philosophical Companionships

Photo by EPA/M.A.PUSHPA KUMARA courtesy LA Times It is quite possible to give detailed responses to all the questions that my learned friend Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka has asked me. Nevertheless, I will only attempt…

Vangeesa Sumanasekara Vangeesa Sumanasekara on 05/23/201405/23/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Sari

Photo by Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai 2009 When Sidath’s mum wore her wedding sari, she would tell her children, ‘the lotus would fully open.’ The large lotus was noticeable because its bright red sequins,…

Priyanga Hettiarachi Priyanga Hettiarachi on 05/23/201405/17/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Questions, five years on

Image courtesy Tehelka Five years ago the demise of Velupilai Prabhakaran was a fast-spreading secret-on-the-block several days before it was made official and the war was pronounced to have ended. One felt…

Pulsara Liyanage Pulsara Liyanage on 05/22/201405/18/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Gender, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Good women and bad women of the post-war nation

Photo by Anushka Wijesinha, 2011, via IPS Since the end of war in May 2009, the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government has sought to forge a new overarching Sri Lanka identity…

Chulani Kodikara Chulani Kodikara on 05/22/201405/17/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Trincomalee

waiting for the war to end

In this place there are No trees no old house With the rope swing Between the karatha kolombang Trees Here there is only White heat white-brown sand Four tin walls And a…

Sharni Jayawardena Sharni Jayawardena on 05/21/201405/21/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Happy Families

Photo by Arun Pillai-Essex I am having a somewhat surreal conversation with a young man. He is describing a telephone conversation with a woman calling from Australia who, ‘speaks with a Sinhala…

Ameena Hussein Ameena Hussein on 05/21/201405/14/2014
End of war | 5 years on, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Writing on the Wall: A Sinhala Prayer in a Tamil Church

When I was walking near the Mulativu beach by around 5.30 this morning, I came across an abandoned Catholic Church. It was in a dilapidated condition. The Church seems to have been…

Udan Fernando Udan Fernando on 05/20/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

A response to the critiques of the victory celebrations

Photography by AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, via “” – Jacques Derrida: text delivered at Althusser’s funeral “” – Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories, London, Verso, 1990, pp 223-24. The central contention of the anti-victory celebration…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 05/20/201405/19/2014

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