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Author : K. M. De Silva,William Howard Wriggins
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824811836
Author : K. M. De Silva,Howard Wriggins
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085052430X
When he retired at the end of 1988, President J R Jayewardene of Ceylon was probably the oldest living elected head of state in the world.
Author : Kingsley M. De Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jayewardene, Junius Richard
ISBN : OCLC:636999763
Author : S. I. Keethaponcalan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000613490
This volume examines and analyses electoral politics in Sri Lanka through the theoretical framework of manipulation. The following questions guided the study: how do political actors manipulate elections, and what are the salient features of electoral politics in Sri Lanka? Primary and secondary data formed the basis of the analysis, examining eight presidential elections. The research findings indicated that Sri Lankan governments, political parties and political leaders have taken advantage of six types of electoral manipulation, including constitutional tinkering, field fixing, time fixing, vote suppression, process manipulation and resource manipulation. Through a close examination of eight presidential elections, research carried out for the volume found that elections are often associated with violence; presidential elections are mainly a majoritarian affair in which minority communities play only a marginal role; there is a significant gender imbalance, as women’s participation in the electoral process is very limited; despite the presence of a large number of candidates contesting the election, it always remains a two-way race; and amid extensive manipulation and other problems, voter participation tends to be high. This volume will be a valuable resource for students, academics and researchers who focus on democracy, good governance, electoral studies and South Asian politics and history, and will enhance the conceptual foundation of democracy advocates and activists.
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Chamindra Weerawardhana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527524514
Exploring the conflict management trajectories of Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka, this book engages in a discussion that highlights the importance of ‘decolonising’ approaches to peacebuilding and conflict management in deeply divided societies. Existing knowledge on the topic is largely produced in the Western academy, using global North-centric approaches. This book, written by a researcher from the global South who navigates the political life of a deeply divided society in Western Europe, begins a conversation on a new, 21st century re-conceptualization of ethno-national conflict in deeply divided societies, based on a paradigm of decolonising. This book will appeal to policymakers and practitioners in peacebuilding and related areas worldwide, and students of peace and conflict studies, as well as a general readership with an interest in decolonial approaches to world politics.
Author : Constantine P. Danopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429715051
This book presents a number of case studies focusing on the factors, methods and means of civilian control of the military in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Guyana, Jamaica, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson,Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0774807598
Through a succession of key stages since Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) became independent in 1948, its Tamil minority, historically concentrated in the north and east but with an important segment in Colombo, became alienated from the Sinhalese majority and, after peaceful opposition failed to secure its rights, resorted to an armed struggle. The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) today appear to hold the key to their people’s future. While they have suffered setbacks, including the loss of the Tamil capital, Jaffna, they remain a potent guerrilla force, able to strike with impunity at both military and civilian targets. The Tigers’ grip on the Tamil population seems secure, as does their overseas support and funding from Tamil exiles in Britain, Canada, and Australia. This book offers a concise history of the Sri Lankan Tamil nation, its culture, social make-up, and political evolution. In a final chapter, A. J. V. Chandrakanthan gives a first-hand account of life and attitudes inside the embattled Tamil areas today. A. Jeyaratnam Wilson teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of The Break-Up of Sri Lanka and S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism. A. J. V. Chandrakanthan teaches in the Department of Theology at Concordia University, Montreal.
Author : Dian A. H. Shah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107183346
Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.
Author : K. M. De Silva,William Howard Wriggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000023666290
Author : A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479356
Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.
Author : Daniel Oakman
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781921666933
'No nation can escape its geography', warned Percy Spender, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia. In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: the Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims that drove the Colombo Plan. It examines the legacy of WWII, how foreign aid was seen as crucial to achieving regional security, how the plan was sold to Australian and Asian audiences, and the changing nature of Australia's relationship with Britain and the United States. Above all this is the question of how Australia sought to project itself into the region, and how Asia was introduced into the Australian consciousness. In answering these questions, this book tells the story of how an insular society, deeply scarred by the turbulence of war, chose to face its regional future.
Author : Pradeep Peiris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811641534
This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates. They employ informal and highly dynamic, loosely knit networks as their organisational structures at the local level. They mainly focus on mobilising voters through local political actors rather than maintaining clear party bases and membership schemes. The study highlights the salience of personalities at the national as well as local levels in forming electoral support for the parties. These individuals exploit their economic, social, and cultural capital to mobilise the most efficient network that would strengthen their party during elections. The study also analyses the emergence of two new coalition centres from within these traditional parties, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), and argues that these parties, though portraying themselves as new, have in fact retained the overall logic of the party–voter nexus by appropriating the organisational schemes and structures of their predecessors.
Author : Rajiva Wijesinha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 8175968338
Junius Richard Jayewardene, 1906-1996, former president of Sri Lanka.
Author : G. H. Peiris,S. W. R. de A. Samarasinghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UOM:39015067828460
Contributed articles chiefly on ethnic conflict and relations in Sri Lanka; includes some articles with reference to India; festschrift of contributed articles for Kingsley de Silva, Sri Lankan historian.