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Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Our Constitutional Conundrum – A Commentary

Image courtesy project, which marries architecture and constitutional theory. Sri Lanka’s current political debate on constitutional reform is significant for a variety of reasons. The Interim Report of the Constitutional Assembly has…

Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda on 11/15/201711/15/2017
Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

Breaking Down The Interim Report

October 30 marks the beginning of a Parliamentary debate around the recently released draft interim report on constitutional reform by the Steering Committee in the Constitutional Assembly. In order to better inform the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 10/30/201711/03/2017
Constitutional Reform, Issues

On framing our Constitution

Featured image courtesy ConstitutionNet On Independence Day we had a Constitution framed primarily by a British academic, Sir (then Dr) Ivor Jennings in the mid-40s. In formulating this document he consulted Prime…

Devanesan Nesiah Devanesan Nesiah on 07/12/201707/12/2017
18th Amendment, Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Education, Identity, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation

Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2017: Finalist

 is pleased to announce the ‘Corridors of Power’, a path-breaking project marrying constitutional reform and theory with architecture, is a finalist in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2017 awards, under the Urban…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/22/201703/22/2017
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

POWER-SHARING: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

The constitutional reform debate in Sri Lanka is in a particularly enervated state as we approach the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, with a government in power that displays that bizarre concoction…

Asanga Welikala Asanga Welikala on 04/12/200804/12/2008

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