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Recognizing the need to promote peace and minority rights in this conflict-ridden country, on March 23rd and 25th the Institute hosted a group of 17 young Sri Lankan professionals as part of a State Department professional exchange program in conjunction with NGO Relief International. Relief International’s Sri Lanka office selected the participants.
The Invention of Enmity
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- August 28, 2009 | Event
Jehan Perera is executive director of the National Peace Council, an independent peace organization based in Colombo, and a regular analyst of Sri Lankan conflict and peace dynamics in online and print media. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu is executive director of the Center for Policy Alternatives, a think tank based in Colombo and dedicated to strengthening public input into governance and policy through research and analysis. Our two guests will speak about the current political and social context in Sri Lanka and the pathways to a sustainable peace and reconciliation.
- May 20, 2009 | In the Field
USIP peace scholar Benjamin Schonthal provides a first person account of the excitement at the end of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war. And, he also reminds us that the hard work of peace is just beginning.
- April 28, 2009 | Resource
Recognizing the need to promote peace and minority rights in this conflict-ridden country, on March 23rd and 25th the Institute hosted a group of 17 young Sri Lankan professionals as part of a State Department professional exchange program in conjunction with NGO Relief International. Relief International’s Sri Lanka office selected the participants.
After twenty-six years of civil war, in May 2009, the Government of Sri Lanka announced it had defeated the separatist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). While Sri Lanka has subsequently entered a post-war stage, it is not yet a post-conflict state. A future of sustained peace in Sri Lanka requires a political settlement reached through an inclusive process to address the grievances of the Sri Lanka’s minority Tamil and Muslim communities. This will need to be accompanied with a disarmament and reintegration program for LTTE and paramilitary, conflict-sensitive transformative development policies, and political and social reconciliation. USIP is working to address these needs with local partners and members of the international community.
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The United States Institute of Peace's work in Sri Lanka supports peacebuilding projects that:
- Help Sri Lanka move from a post-war to post-conflict environment through supporting constructive political negotiations to reach a settlement that addresses the root causes of Sri Lanka’s conflict.
- Support sound demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration policies and practices of former combatants, and the resettlement of displaced communities.
- Support inter-communal reconciliation, strengthening relationships and mutual understanding between Sri Lanka’s diverse ethnic and religious communities, in support of nurturing a pluralistic Sri Lankan national identity.