Four meetings of Reconciliation Committees at Divisional Secretariat level were held last week in Vavuniya and Mullaitivu under the Chairmanship of the respective Assistant Government Agents / Divisional Secretaries, with the attendance of Prof Rajiva …
Four meetings of Reconciliation Committees at Divisional Secretariat level were held last week in Vavuniya and Mullaitivu under the Chairmanship of the respective Assistant Government Agents / Divisional Secretaries, with the attendance of Prof Rajiva …
The music is loud, the colours are vibrant, and the girls who have just stepped off the stage are in a fit of giggles outside the main hall. Inside, a ceremony is taking place, and …
Having coordinated the Rotary National Youth Exchange program last year and by continuing to keep in close touch with the beneficiary youths from North & East, our Rotary Peace ’07 & Ambassadorial ’09 scholar Rtn …
You don’t have to look far to find stories on how divided Sri Lanka still is. Granted, this website is no different. Despite the end of the Tamil war in 2009, there is still a …
Reconciliation Committee meetings were conducted at Divisional Secretariats in three Districts of the Northern Province between February 25th and 27th. The meetings were chaired by Divisional Secretaries at Vavuniya, Vavuniya South, Karachchi, Pachchilappalli and Chavakachcheri, …
By Prof Rajiva Wijesinha & Salma Yusuf
Background and History of the Conflict
The conflict in Sri Lanka can be traced back to the perception of its Tamil population of discrimination and unequal treatment by the State. …
Killinochchi was just another obscure dot in the map in the eighties. It was a sleepy town which had no importance of any sort to anyone except to the farmer, peasants and the government servants …
Much is often said about the merits and demerits of the government’s current focus on ‘development’ as the panacea for sustainable peace in Sri Lanka. One can argue that development, specifically bridging development disparities across …
‘Reconciliation’ is now the latest buzzword in the ever-dynamic political spectrum in Sri Lanka. This follows on from its trendy predecessors including ‘war’, ‘peace-process’, ‘cease-fire’ and ‘devolution’ to name a few. The urgent question in …
