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Author : Rajesh Venugopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108428798
Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.
Author : Chelvadurai Manogaran
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082481116X
Concerns the treatment of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015007681235
Author : Sakunthala Jayamaha
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783346572929
Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, University of Peradeniya, course: Multiculturalism, language: English, abstract: This article intends to examine the root causes of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, and methods that can be used to resolve it. For 40 years, in Sri Lanka, the ethnic conflict became an aggravating issue because of their diversity. It means Sri Lankan society has consisted of various kinds of cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, and languages. This article will determine the nature of the ethnic conflict and what we can do to prevent this type of conflict. Although in 2009, the civil war had been ended by Sri Lankan Government, there is no efficient reconciliation process among the Sri Lankans. As a result of that situation, from time to time, ethnic conflicts have arisen. On the other hand, it became commodious destruction to the development process of Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study helps to conceive the gravity of this ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791493670
Patrick Grant explores the relationship between Buddhism and violent ethnic conflict in modern Sri Lanka using the concept of "regressive inversion." Regressive inversion occurs when universal teaching, such as that of the Buddha, is redeployed to supercharge passions associated with the kinds of group loyalty that the universal teaching itself intends to transcend. The book begins with an account of the main teachings of Theravada Buddhism and looks at how these inform, or fail to inform, modern interpreters. Grant considers the writings of three key figures—Anagarika Dharmapala, Walpola Rahula, and J. R. Jayewardene—who addressed Buddhism and politics in the years leading up to Sri Lanka's political independence from Britain, and subsequently, in postcolonial Sri Lanka. This book makes the Sri Lankan conflict accessible to readers interested in the modern global phenomenon of ethnic violence involving religion and also illuminates similar conflicts around the world.
Author : Haraprasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8185880522
The study presents a comprehensive account of the current ethnic conflict between the Sri Lankan Tamils and the Sinhalese Government. Staking their claim as the earliest immigrants into the island, a claim challenged by the tamils, the sinhalese in course of time, assumed political sovereighty over the island including the Tamils in the Socio-economic-educational fields as well.
Author : Nikolaos Biziouras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317805526
At the point of independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was projected to be a success story in the developing world. However, in July 1983 a violent ethnic conflict which pitted the Sinhalese against the Tamils began, and did not come to an end until 2009. This conflict led to nearly 50,000 combatant deaths and approximately 40,000 civilian deaths, as well as almost 1 million internally-displaced refugees and to the permanent migration abroad of nearly 130,000 civilians. With a focus on Sri Lanka, this book explores the political economy of ethnic conflict, and examines how rival political leaders are able to convince their ethnic group members to follow them into violent conflict. Specifically, it looks at how political leaders can influence and utilize changes in the level of economic liberalization in order to mobilize members of a certain ethnic group, and in the case of Sri Lanka, shows how ethnic mobilization drives can turn violent when minority ethnic groups are economically marginalized by the decisions that the majority ethnic group leaders make in order to stay in power. Taking a political economy approach to the conflict in Sri Lanka, this book is unique in its historical analysis and provides a longitudinal view of the evolution of both Tamil and Sinhalese ethnic drives. As such, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to policy makers as well as academics in the field of South Asian studies, political science, sociology, development studies, political economy and security studies.
Author : K. M. De Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049729935
Author : Asoka Bandarage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135970857
The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed struggles. The internationally banned LTTE is considered the prototype of modern terrorism. It is known to have introduced suicide bombing to the world, and recently became the first terrorist organization ever to acquire an air force. The ‘iron law of ethnicity’ – the assumption that cultural difference inevitably leads to conflict – has been reinforced by the 9/11 attacks and conflicts like the one in Sri Lanka. However, the connections among ethnic difference, conflict, and terrorism are not automatic. This book broadens the discourse on the separatist conflict in Sri Lanka by moving beyond the familiar bipolar Sinhala versus Tamil ethnic antagonism to show how the form and content of ethnicity are shaped by historical social forces. It develops a multipolar analysis which takes into account diverse ethnic groups, intra-ethnic, social class, caste and other variables at the local, regional and international levels. Overall, this book presents a conceptual framework useful for comparative global conflict analysis and resolution, shedding light on a host of complex issues such as terrorism, civil society, diasporas, international intervention and secessionism.
Author : C. M. S. J. Madduma Bandara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : UOM:39015061601210
Author : Jayadeva Uyangoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131697547
Author : Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134949793
In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections of the island under the control of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) and militant separatist Tamil groups operating in the north and south. This book is not a conventional political history of Sri Lanka. Instead, it attempts to shed fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis and uses a combination of historical and anthropologial evidence to challenge the widely-held belief that the conflict in Sri Lanka is simply the continuation of centuries of animosity between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The authors show how modern ethnic identities have been made and re-made since the colonial period with the war between Tamils and the Sinhala-dominant government accompanied by rhetorical wars over archeological sites and place-name etymologies, and the political use of the national past. The book is also one of the first attempts to focus on local perceptions of the crisis and draws on a broad range of sources, from village fieldwork to newspaper controversies. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics to history, anthropology and development studies.
Author : Neil DeVotta
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804749248
In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their community, using the Sinhala language as their instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace English as the country’s official language with Sinhala and Tamil (the language of Sri Lanka’s principal minority) was abandoned and Sinhala alone became the official language in 1956. The Tamils’ subsequent protests led to anti-Tamil riots and institutional decay, which meant that supposedly representative agencies of government catered to Sinhalese preferences and blatantly disregarded minority interests. This in turn led to the Tamils’ mobilizing, first politically then militarily, and by the mid-1970s Tamil youth were bent on creating a separate state.
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789351184287
A critical analysis of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka In the eighties, Sri Lanka, once considered the ‘model’ colony, was torn apart by ethnic strife between the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalas, constituting almost threequarters of the island’s inhabitants, and the numerically fewer Tamils, who were a mix of Hindus, Christians and Muslims. Massacres occurred after the riots of May 1983, and over time about 1,25,000 Tamils entered India as refugees, fleeing from a virtual civil war which still afflicts the north of the island. The author, a renowned Sri Lankan analyst of global ethnic conflict, discusses the historical reasons behind the ethnic violence, especially the growth of the Sinhalas’ feeling of being a beleagured minority despite their numerical strength. Analysing the present conflict, he shows how the language policy of ‘Sinhala Only’, followed by the government in the sixties, supplanted religion as a divisive factor and how rivalry over educational and employment opportunities fuelled the schism. Bringing the story up to the present, de Silva examines the role played by Indian and Tamil Nadu politicians, and President Kumaratunga’s efforts towards a devolution of power to the Tamil Provinces. But given the LTTE’s acceptance of nothing less than Eelam, he sees little hope of an early end to the violence that has racked Sri Lanka for almost two decades now.
Author : De Zhong Gao
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656120063
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: 82%, McGill University, course: Political Change in South Asia, language: English, abstract: Sri Lanka has only recently survived a civil war.Though the conflict is over, questions still arise over whether the country has genuinely facilitated the process of reconstruction and reconciliation of ties across its different ethnic communities. Where are the origins of the Sinhala-Tamil conflict? This essay will strive to analyze the different socio-ecoonmic, historical and political factors, which have influenced Sinhala-Tamil relations and determined the path of Sri Lanka in the last three decades.
