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Presidential Election 2015

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Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

The Emerging Political Vacuum in Sri Lanka: Is JVP the Answer?

If there is one question that troubles many rights activists in Sri Lanka today, it is the current political instability within the coalition Government led by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Maithripala Sirisena government…

Sunanda Deshapriya Sunanda Deshapriya on 06/25/201806/25/2018
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Presidential Election 2015

Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis: Not losing an opportunity to lose another opportunity

Image courtesy Is the (‘good governance’) regime jointly led President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremasinghe slowly abandoning its political reform commitments made during the Presidential and Parliamentary elections of 2015? Are the…

Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda on 07/02/201707/04/2017
Corruption, Groundviews at 10, Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Good Governance and Corruption

Featured image courtesy Al Jazeera Good Governance is a key challenge Sri Lanka has faced and spectacularly failed to deliver for most of its modern history. This challenge is not only about…

Lionel Bopage Lionel Bopage on 01/31/201701/31/2017
Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Trouble in Yahapaalanaya

Two years in to , cracks have appeared in the historic nuptial that took place in January 2015 between the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and the United National Front for Good Governance…

Hilmy Ahamed Hilmy Ahamed on 01/31/201701/31/2017
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Features, Groundviews at 10, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Presidential Election 2015

The Curse of the Obstinate Patriarch

Today marks the second anniversary of the victory of Maithripala Sirisena as the President of Sri Lanka at the 8th January 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential Election.  And the second anniversary of the…

Sasanka Perera Sasanka Perera on 01/08/201702/06/2017
International, Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Corbyn’s Classic Win: A Global Inspiration To Political Underdogs

Featured image courtesy the Huffington Post  “It’s all about conventional wisdom: The powers that be decide early on who is going to win, and they don’t want their narrative disturbed.”- Koenen The…

Lukman Harees Lukman Harees on 10/03/201610/03/2016
Elections, Issues, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Presidential Election 2015

Looking for the Human factor in this “Rainbow Revolution”

Two things trouble and pain me. The Mullivaikkal “remembrance” on 18 May, of the dead and missing people due to war, whose families are still agitating to know the “truth” and want…

Kusal Perera Kusal Perera on 05/19/2016
Issues, Politics and Governance, Poverty, Presidential Election 2015

Economic Justice and Democratic Survival

Featured image courtesy IndiaTimes In ‘’, his long piece on the Obama Presidency, Jeffery Goldberg writes that Mr. Obama, reflecting on his failures in the Middle East, privately laments, “if only everyone could…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 03/13/201603/13/2016
Issues, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Presidential Election 2015

Public Service Failure: A Rant

Featured image courtesy Sanka Vidanagama, Getty images When I entered the Ministry of External Affairs to get my education certificates validated, I was pleasantly surprised to see the orderly queue the crowd…

Shadrach F Shadrach F on 03/05/201610/05/2017
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015, Religion and faith

Shadow and Light

A song posted on the You Tube comparing President Maithripala Sirisena with ancient kings of Pollonnaruwa gave rise to a storm of social-media protests and was removed within hours. Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 01/10/201601/10/2016
Elections, Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

One Year Of Yahapaalanaya: The Highs And Lows

Featured image courtesy Youtube On January 8, 2015, thousands flocked to Independence Square to watch Maithripala Sirisena take his Presidential vows. With his promise to promote or ‘good governance’ the atmosphere was…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/08/201601/09/2016
Issues, Long Reads, Presidential Election 2015

Prospects for good governance and national reconciliation post the August 17th elections

Featured image courtesy Newsfirst. Leonard Cohen[1] Giuseppe di Lampedusa[2] The genesis of this paper was a recent trip we took to Lanka as election observers for the August parliamentary elections. During the…

Gaetano Greco and Michael Cooke Gaetano Greco and Michael Cooke on 11/17/201511/17/2015
Colombo, Economy, Long Reads, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

The Economics of Democracy

Picture courtesy Colombo Gazette “Want to buy some illusions, Slightly used, second hand? They were lovely illusions, Reaching high, built on sand….” (Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair) “After emergency laws are…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 10/19/201510/19/2015
Colombo, Development, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

A Fifty of a Hundred Days to Few, or too Many?

Image courtesy A former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made the oft- quoted remark that a week is a long time in politics. What then of fifty days, not to mention a…

Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu on 03/05/201503/08/2015
Colombo, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Human Rights and 50 days of Sri Lanka’s new Presidency

Image courtesy Maithripala Sirisena website It’s now 50 days since Sri Lanka’s new President took oaths on 9th January 2015. This is an attempt to reflect on the first 50 days of…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 03/02/2015

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