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Journal articles on the topic "Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-"

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Ganguly, Sumit. "Ending the Sri Lankan Civil War." Daedalus 147, no. 1 (2018): 78–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00475.

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The Sri Lankan Civil War erupted in 1983 and dragged on until 2009. The origins of the conflict can be traced to Sri Lanka's colonial era and subsequent postcolonial policies that had significantly constrained the social and economic rights of the minority Tamil population. Convinced that political avenues for redressing extant grievances were unlikely to yield any meaningful results, a segment of the Tamil community turned to violence precipitating the civil war. A number of domestic, regional, and international efforts to bring about a peaceful solution to the conflict all proved to be futil
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SWARNAKAR, NEHA. "Complexities in the Re-Fashioning of a State through the Lens of Romesh Gunesekera's Noontide Toll." Akademos: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Literature and Culture I, no. i (2021): 60–66. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5239841.

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After the outbreak of Elam War in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009, it takes only few years for the Sri Lankan forces to defeat the Tamil separatist guerrilla or LTTE. After that war the country seems to be standing at the cross-roads bewildered as to the direction it should take regarding the post war peace building and attempts to sort out the ethnic cohesion and inclusive developments. The end of a civil war does not necessarily mean the end of ethno political cohesion rather it redefines the war in the condition of no war. Romesh Gunesekera&rsquo;s <em>Noontide Toll</em> (2014) revisits that sc
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Wijenayake, Nelson, Mingyi Du, and Jie Jiang. "Explore to Mantai, the Ancient Port-city and the International Trade-hub of Maritime Silk Road in Northern Coast of Sri Lanka." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-4-2024 (October 21, 2024): 479–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-2024-479-2024.

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Abstract. Mantai Ancient Port City is located in Mannar, Northern Coast of Sri Lanka, archeological reserves declared by the Department of Archeology in Sri Lanka. In concern with historical international trades for almost 2000 years, Mantai had been an excellent port city as discovered by 1980s investigations. Today, this historically valued archeology reserves are being covered by various unauthorized constructions. The artifacts found in 1980s excavations figured out in further research directives to unveil the ancient cultural and social relations that had been experienced over two millenn
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Campaign For Social Democracy. "Sri Lanka: the choice of two terrors." Race & Class 30, no. 3 (1989): 57–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030639688903000306.

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While a stalemate in the predominantly Tamil North and East of Sri Lanka continues despite Indian intervention on the government's behalf, in the Sinhala South death squads associated with the pseudo People's Liberation Front, the JVP, have been ruthlessly eliminating its opponents. The United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), having created and nurtured popular racism for over thirty years in order to get into power (through a ready-made Sinhalese majority of 70 per cent of the population), * would now like to draw back from the brink of another crippling civil war,
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Venisha, D., and Yadamala Sreenivasulu. "Revisiting the Violence of Sri Lanka’s Civil War: A Study of Apocalypse as Portrayed in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 9 (2023): 2423–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1309.31.

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This study analyses the ethnic conflict and civil war in Sri Lanka after gaining independence as portrayed in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy. The aim is to determine if the violent acts committed against the minority group can amount to apocalypse. This research examines the concept of ethnic conflict and the apocalypse depicted in "Funny Boy" by Shyam Selvadurai. The analysis focuses on how ethnic conflict is portrayed in the novel. This study explores the thematic elements described in Shyam Selvadurai's novel Funny Boy, which provides a narrative account of the 1983 July riot in Sri Lanka. Th
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Fiaz, Kamran. "Situation Analysis of Nation Building Efforts in Sri Lanka: From Early Years of Independence to Contemporary Days." Forman Journal of Social Sciences 01, no. 01 (2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32368/fjss.20210105.

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Despite the smooth transition of power from the British colonists to the Sri Lankan Sinhalese in 1949, Sri Lanka inherited considerable challenges. There has been conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils post-independence which led to a long and brutal civil war from 1983 to 2009. After the culmination of the civil war, Sri Lanka confronted numerous obstacles in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country. Drawing from Birch’s model of national integration, this study attempts to examine the diverse political, economic, and social challenges facing Sri Lanka. The review shows tha
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Rincy, Saji, and Rajesh V. Nair Dr. "TRAVERSING WITH THE SPECTRE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN POST-WAR SRI LANKA: A STUDY OF ROMESH GUNESEKERA'S NOONTIDE TOLL." TRAVERSING WITH THE SPECTRE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN POST-WAR SRI LANKA: A STUDY OF ROMESH GUNESEKERA'S NOONTIDE TOLL 3, no. 2 (2024): 43–49. https://doi.org/10.53413/IJTELL.2022.03208.

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A decade after the cessation of the bloody Sri Lankancivil war (1983-2009), the island remains haunted bythe perils of the conflict in myriad manifestations. Thisarticle examines the enduring presence of the SriLankan ethnic divide as the spectre that haunts thepost-civil war Sri Lankan lives by problematizing theparadigms of memory and space. Considering aspectral approach to feature the post-war epoch in SriLanka, the study draws significantly from thetheoretical concept of Hauntology from JacquesDerrida&rsquo;s Spectres of Marx (1993). For the study, theresearch examines Romesh Gunesekara&r
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Orjuela, Camilla. "Civil Society in Civil War: The Case of Sri Lanka." Civil Wars 7, no. 2 (2005): 120–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698280500422884.

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Wickramasinghe, Nira. "After the War: A New Patriotism in Sri Lanka?" Journal of Asian Studies 68, no. 4 (2009): 1045–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911809990738.

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On May 19, 2009, the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, dressed in his traditional white sarong and shirt, solemnly addressed Parliament: “The writ of the state now runs across every inch of our territory … we have completely defeated terrorism.” The same day, photographs of the corpse of the ruthless rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran adorned all of the local newspapers. With his death, the secessionist war was over—this endless war that had pitted the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against the security forces of the government of Sri Lanka since 1983. It had sunk deep into
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Bamunusinghe, S., and C. D. Senaratne. "Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature as a Mode for Dialogue and Reconciliation in the Portrayal of War in Sri Lanka (1983-2009)." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review 8, no. 1 (2023): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jsshr.v8i1.114.

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From ancient times, war has played a main role in the lives of people and has been a major theme for literature, history, and as well as for political discourses. The period between 1983-2009 marks the war that took place in Sri Lankan history, which impacted the country politically, culturally, and economically. The realms of Sri Lankan English, Sinhala, and Tamil literature also went through change during this period, and many fiction, poems, dramas, and films were composed in response to the war both during and in its aftermath. The Sri Lankan Anglophone writers: residential authors as well
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-"

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Ratnam, Cheran. "A Textual Analysis of News Framing in the Sri Lankan Conflict." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700020/.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how local and foreign newspapers used the war journalism and peace journalism frames when covering the Sri Lankan civil war, and to uncover subframes specific to the conflict. The first part of the thesis provides an in- depth literature review that addresses the history of the conflict and media freedom in Sri Lanka. The newspaper articles for the textual analysis were selected from mainstream Sri Lankan and U.S newspapers: the Daily News (a state sponsored newspaper) and Daily Mirror from Sri Lanka, and the New York Times and Washington Post from t
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Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. "The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.

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Balamayuran, Malini. "Ethnic mobilization of minorities in Sri Lanka." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:38825.

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The 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War, in which thousands were killed and many more displaced both locally and globally, finally came to an end with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. However, the war had created a deep sense of mistrust between people of different ethnic groups, destroying relationships and instilling fear for the future, which made the topic of national reconciliation central to political and academic debates. Scholars, however, when writing about the nature of the Sri Lankan Civil War and the attempts at conflict resolution focused primarily on in
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Visakesa, Chandrasekaram. "Do tigers confess? : an interdisciplinary study of confessionary evidence in counter-terrorism measures of Sri Lanka." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150330.

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For over three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independent statehood against the majoritarian Sinhalese Government of Sri Lanka. While confronting the Tigers on the battleground, the government also pursued a legal war against the LTTE by enacting its counter-terrorism laws. These laws permitted indefinite detention and the use of confessions as sole evidence. Armed with these laws, the Sinhalese Government boasted the prosecution of thousands of Tamil Tigers on the basis of their confessions. The Tigers countered by protecting their secrets throu
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Books on the topic "Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-"

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Dampahalagē, Daminda. Hima vaṭe hindara =: My ethnic war. Ăs. Goḍagē saha Sahōdarayō, 2007.

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Centre for Reconciliation and Co-existence and Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies, eds. 1975-2014 Sri Lanka. Centre for Reconciliation and Co-existence, 2013.

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Vidānaāraccci, Guṇatuṅga Yaṭiyana. Nonivena ginidăl. Sarasavi Prakāśakayō, 2007.

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Tirunāvukkaracu, Va. Pērin̲avātattin̲ al̲ivē Ilaṅkaiyin̲ viṭivu. s.n.], 2005.

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International Centre for Ethnic Studies, ed. War making and state building: The politics of state reform in Sri Lanka. International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2014.

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Kaviyal̲akan̲, Kuṇā. Viṭamēr̲i̲ya kan̲avu. Akal, 2015.

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Silva, Gerry De. War heroes killed-in-action. Print Book (Pvt) Ltd., 2016.

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Prakash, Singh Chandra. Tamils and LTTE in Sri Lanka: Perspective and prospects. Manas Publications, 2016.

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Saavedra, Raquel. A gendered approach to transitional justice in Sri Lanka: Women's perspectives and international best practices. South Asian Centre for Legal Studies, 2017.

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Pīrīs, Janadāsa. Jātika găṭaluva, gōtriya rājyayē siṭa golīya rajyaya dakvā: Upagranthaya. Piks ănḍa Varḍs Prakāśanayaki, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-"

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Li, Jia, Takahiro Ito, Ramila Usoof-Thowfeek, and Koji Yamazaki. "The Scars of the Eelam War: Eroded Trust in North-Eastern Sri Lanka." In Countries and Regions. Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2835-0_9.

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AbstractThis study explores the legacies of the protracted 1983–2009 Sri Lankan civil conflict using original household survey data. By differentiating individual- and household-level war exposure, voluntary and involuntary military service experience, and loss of family members of soldiers and civilians, we evaluated the influence of a wide array of war-time experiences on the trust level of people in war-torn regions. We found that civil conflict undermined political trust, and heightened inter as well as intra-ethnic divisions among the Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka. Thus, the Sri Lanka
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O'sullivan, Meghan. "Sri Lanka: Civil Strife, Civil Society, and the State 1983–1995." In War and Underdevelopment. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199241880.003.0007.

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Davies, Sara E., and Jacqui True. "Deconstructing Victory." In Hidden Wars. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190064167.003.0006.

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Abstract This chapter examines the case of Sri Lanka and the patterns of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) from 1998 to 2016. It analyzes SGBV reports in the period overlapping with the nation’s civil war (1983–2009) between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and in the postconflict period subsequent to the war’s end. The chapter finds that despite postconflict status, the reporting conditions for SGBV were still influenced by the political context and prevailing narratives of the conflict reflecting the clear Sinhalese victory over the Tamil
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Holt, John Clifford. "Asala Perahara." In Theravada Traditions. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824867805.003.0003.

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This chapter provides the mythical account and then a detailed history of the origins of the Dalada (“Tooth-Relic”) of the Buddha and its importance as a legitimating device for Buddhist kingship in traditional Sri Lanka. It also traces how the annual ritual procession of the Dalada has changed into a symbolic nationalistic statement regarding the character of the contemporary Sri Lankan state in a time when the nation was facing a 26 year long civil war.
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Buthpitiya, Vindhya. "“The Truth Is in the Soil”." In Citizens of Photography. Duke University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478024590-002.

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This chapter examines the political work of photography in northern Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the island's civil war (1983–2009). Here, everyday “photographing” and the vibrant personal and political recontextualization and rematerialization of photographic images illuminate the effects of war and the lingering political frictions and grievances of the postwar. Within diverse ethnographic contexts spanning commemoration, activism, and state surveillance, the making and moving of photography play a significant role in improvisations to imagine and secure personal and collective political fu
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"Introduction." In Disaster Nationalism. Duke University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060673-001.

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Based on eighteen months of fieldwork spanning from 2008 to 2017, Disaster Nationalism follows national disaster management projects in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami and through the end of the civil war, shedding light on disaster policies, state power dynamics, and national security. The tsunami reinforced an existing militarized logic of national vulnerability to manage uncontrollable threats, including war and terrorism. By tracing the mechanisms of disaster nationalism, the book illustrates how disaster management becomes an instrument of national securitization, propagating the fantasy
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Raghavan, Suren. "A Paradise Poisoned? Burden of the Past—Blunder of the Present". У Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War: Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Saṅgha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka, 1995-2010. Equinox Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/equinox.24501.

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This introductory chapter lays out the purpose of the book, which is to explore how a country permeated by the supposedly peaceful teachings of Theravāda Buddhism became a “killing field”. This broad question has generated a considerable volume of literature. This book will focus on a crucial segment of these complex developments: the powerful role of the Saṅgha Buddhist monks in the contemporary politics of war and peace in Lanka. The chapter outlines the theoretical approaches and fieldwork undertaken in the course of writing the book. The chapter also provides a history of Lanka with partic
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Raghavan, Suren. "The Social and Political role of the Saṅgha in Lanka". У Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War: Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Saṅgha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka, 1995-2010. Equinox Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/equinox.24502.

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This chapter examines the history of Buddhism and key texts alongside developments in Lankan history to try to define the nature of of the society of Buddha and to trace some of the strands defining the relationship between the Buddhist movement and political governance through the centuries. In seeking to seek to map the institutionalization of the Buddhist order and the resultant political powers this process created in Lanka, the chapter asks whether early Buddhism outlined and effected an alternative power arrangement to existing modes prevalent at the time. Finally, through detailed analy
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Glover, Jonathan. "Nations, Identity, and Conflict." In The Morality of Nationalism. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195103915.003.0002.

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Abstract There are two histories of nationalism. One history, repeated many times, is of a people rightly struggling to be free. They eventually break away from their large neighbor, a colonial power, or the Soviet Union to attain the dignity of self governing nationhood. The other history, repeated many times, is of nationalism as tribal conflict. This is the story of the European nations and their quarrels that culminated in war in 1914. More recently it is the story of seemingly endless reciprocal killing: the story of Armenia and Azerbaijan, of Israel and Palestine, of the factions in the
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Galbraith Penny. "A Practitioner's Universal Design Approach Making a Difference to Distressed Assets in Sri Lanka." In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-923-2-728.

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Prescriptive and retrospective accessibility regulations, a rich architectural and cultural history, recent civil war and a distressed asset base make for considerable challenges. This paper describes how universal design principles formed the foundation of technical training delivered to Sri Lankan professionals, to assist them comply with accessibility regulations, and their obligations under the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The paper is based on work funded by the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and delivered by a delegati
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