Download or read book Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka written by Bhavani Fonseka and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Download or read book In the Pursuit of Democracy in Post colonial Sri Lanka written by Farzana Haniffa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Post war Dilemmas of Sri Lanka written by S. I. Keethaponcalan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By investigating Sri Lanka as a case study, this book examines whether democracy, compared to authoritarianism, is conducive to post-war reconciliation. The research, founded on primary as well as secondary data, concludes that political systems have little to do with the success or failure of post-war ethnic reconciliation. The Sri Lankan case indicated that post-war reconciliation is more contingent on the readiness of the former enemies to come together. Readiness stems from, for example, satisfaction in the way issues have been resolved, confidence in the other party's intentions, and the compulsion to coexist. If the level of satisfaction, confidence, and the compulsion to coexist are low, the readiness to reconcile will also be low. The end of the war had a profound impact on post-war governance and ethnic relations in Sri Lanka. Hence, the volume provides an in-depth analysis of the factors that led to the military victory of the Sri Lankan government over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. The chapters delve into the nexus between governance and reconciliation under the first two post-war governments. Reconciliation did not materialize in this period. Instead, new fault-lines emerged as attacks on the Muslim community escalated drastically. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of relations between the Sinhalese and Muslims and the Tamils and Muslims, as well as the nature and causes of post-war anti-Muslim riots.

Download or read book Victim centred Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka written by Bhavani Fonseka and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice written by Rita Shackel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings. This examination is especially important given the disappointing progress made to date in spite of concerted efforts over the last two decades. With contributions from both academics and practitioners working at national and international levels, this work integrates theory and practice, examining both global problems and highly contextual case studies including Kenya, Somalia, Peru, Afghanistan and DRC. The contributors aim to provide a comprehensive and compelling argument for the need to fundamentally rethink global approaches to gender justice.

Download or read book Where to from Here written by Sophia Elek and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transitional Justice written by Asia Justice and Rights (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War written by Ishwari L. Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis seeks to answer the question, “Under what conditions would transitional justice mechanisms be used to address the grievances of the Sri Lankan civil war?” In analyzing literature produced by academia, prominent human rights advocates, and global governance organizations, I interrogate common frameworks of transitional justice, which view the practice as having multiple, mutually reinforcing goals, such as the pursuit of accountability, truth and reparation, the preservation of peace, and the building of democracy and the rule of law. Based on interviews with Sri Lankan civil society actors with experience on the ground, I argue that Sri Lanka’s current domestic and geopolitical realities renders this ideal of transitional justice difficult but not impossible to achieve. The present political structures of Sri Lanka, shaped and informed by colonial rule, have fostered a majoritarian consciousness among the Sinhalese Buddhist population. Thus, the goals of transitional justice – assumed to be widely accepted as legitimate and neutral by international law – are viewed on ethnic lines: pursuing accountability and truth is perceived as synonymous with implicating the Sinhalese as a collective. Furthermore, as Sri Lanka’s foreign policy alignment has historically had implications for transitional justice initiatives, the current administration’s embrace of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism has strengthened its economic and political ties with China, decreasing the government’s political incentive to engage in transitional justice further. These realities hamper achieving meaningful steps toward dealing with the war’s aftermath, such as restoring the economic livelihoods and political rights of marginalized populations and attaining a truly substantive democracy.

Download or read book Transitional Justice in the Asia Pacific written by Renee Jeffery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

Download or read book Memorialisation for Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka written by Thyagi Ruwanpathirana and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women and Female Ex combatants written by Nirmala Indumathie Dias Paranavitana and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the end of the three decade long conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government Security Forces in 2009, the population of civilian women and female ex-combatants in the North and East which comprised the majority of the total Sri Lankan population were faced with post conflict issues that created obstacles to restoring their lives. The Panel of Experts appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations for Sri Lanka asserted that the Government of Sri Lanka should implement a transitional justice program as part of post conflict peace-building. However, during the process of implementation, the idea and practice of transitional justice was challenged by the socio-cultural system in the North and East of Sri Lanka. This thesis examines the nature of tensions that arise between the main stakeholders of transitional justice, i.e. civilian women and female ex-combatants, and the sociocultural system that exists in North and East of Sri Lanka. In this thesis, I argue that transitional justice for Sri Lanka should look into the socio-cultural norms that pose an obstacle to the implementation process. As much as the two concepts of restorative and retributive justice are in tension with each other, during the implementation process, transitional justice was further challenged by different post conflict contexts, and sociocultural systems within which civilian women and female ex-combatants live. Through employing selective comparison of transitional justice processes in others post conflict contexts, this thesis explores the feasibility of combining and sequencing transitional justice mechanisms in Sri Lanka to adopt a justice process which goes beyond retribution. It also assesses the possibility of combining Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programmes (DDR) for excombatants with transitional justice mechanisms to ascertain the feasibility of such an approach for Sri Lanka. In order to cement my findings, data collected during fieldwork interviews with civilian women and female ex-combatants in the North and East of Sri Lanka in early 2013 are utilised to make a clear distinction between the transitional justice policy proposed by the United Nations and the Government approach. This study contributes to the transitional justice scholarship as a critique of its application in the unique post conflict context of Sri Lanka, while also assessing the role of women within transitional justice mechanisms, while taking into account the civilian women and female ex-combatants.

Download or read book Transitional Justice and Forced Migration Critical Perspectives from the Global South written by Nergis Canefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.

Download or read book Localizing Transitional Justice in the Context of Psychosocial Work in Sri Lanka written by Maleeka Salih and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advancing Truth Justice in Sri Lanka written by Aruni Jayakody and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On transitional justice in Sri Lanka.

Download or read book Transitional Justice Sri Lanka case study written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Shadow of Transitional Justice written by Guy Elcheroth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other hand, collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice, including legal prosecution, truth-seeking and reparations, alongside memorialisation. The 15 chapters included in the volume, written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds, explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past, and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justice - or indeed, any societal engagement with the past - more transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width, the book features two key case analyses - South Africa and Sri Lanka - alongside discussions of multiple cases, including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina, but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice, such as Turkey or Côte d’Ivoire. The different contributions, grouped in themed sections, progressively explore the issues, actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and, in doing so, open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice.

Download or read book A Gendered Approach to Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: