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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, Politics and Governance

Reform Resistance in Sri Lankan Politics

Featured image courtesy ada.lk One serious political question that emerges from Sri Lanka’s current political impasse is the following: why has a reformist democratic regime, with domestic popular support as well as…

Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda on 03/27/201804/05/2018
Issues, Politics and Governance

From an Electoral Drubbing to a Manufactured Crisis

Featured image courtesy TimeSriLanka Basics first: the UNP and the SLFP lost a local government election, not a Presidential election, not a Parliamentary election, not even a Provincial Council election. A local…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 02/18/201802/18/2018

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