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Issues, Politics and Governance

On Paradigm Shifts: Sri Lanka Must Forge a New Way Forward

From a No Confidence Motion to oust the Prime Minister, to a deep-rooted rift between President and Prime Minister, the swearing in of a new cabinet of ministers, religious and ethnic conflict,…

Soraya Deen Soraya Deen on 05/11/2018
Colombo, Elections, Long Reads, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Polls, Youth

Namal Rajapaksa, bots and trolls: New contours of digital propaganda and online discourse in Sri Lanka

Image courtesy , by Quartz Late 2017, the Twitter account of has generated all manner of violent, venomous pushback and responses to content it has produced, published and promoted. Over the years,…

Sanjana Hattotuwa and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Sanjana Hattotuwa and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne on 01/24/201802/23/2018
Human Rights, International, Issues, Politics and Governance

Political Chaos in the Maldives – Where it all Began

To the outside world, the Maldives is known as a “Paradise on earth” with its white sandy beaches and crystal clear lagoons.  However, its troubled political realm is little recognised. Political tension escalated back…

S. Mohamed S. Mohamed on 11/13/201711/13/2017
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
Batticaloa, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Trincomalee

THE EASTERN PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: A BRIEF POST-MORTEM

As the much hard-sold elections to the Eastern Provincial Council came to an unseemly and acrimonious conclusion last week, it was already becoming abundantly clear that its political and constitutional ramifications may…

Asanga Welikala Asanga Welikala on 05/21/2008

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