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Sri Lanka Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy
Author | : Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226789521 |
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Focusing on the historical events of post-independence Sri Lanka, S. J. Tambiah analyzes the causes of the violent conflict between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and the minority Tamils. He demonstrates that the crisis is primarily a result of recent societal stresses—educational expansions, linguistic policy, unemployment, uneven income distribution, population movements, contemporary uses of the past as religious and national ideology, and trends toward authoritarianism—rather than age-old racial and religious differences. "In this concise, informative, lucidly written book, scrupulously documented and well indexed, [Tambiah] trains his dispassionate anthropologist's eye on the tangled roots of an urgent, present-day problem in the passionate hope that enlightenment, understanding, and a generous spirit of compromise may yet be able to prevail."—Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "An incredibly rich and balanced analysis of the crisis. It is exemplary in highlighting the general complexities of ethnic crises in long-lived societies carrying a burden of historical memories."—Amita Shastri, Journal of Asian Studies "Tambiah makes an eloquent case for pluralist democracy in a country abundantly endowed with excuses to abandon such an approach to politics."—Donald L. Horowitz, New Republic "An excellent and thought-provoking book, for anyone who cares about Sri Lanka."—Paul Sieghart, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Just Peace
Author | : M. Fixdal |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137092861 |
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Drawing on many of the wars and peaces of recent decades, this book offers a persuasive new perspective on postwar justice. In her analysis wars of succession, wars for territory, and the political institutions that precede and follow wars, Fixdal explores the outer limits of the idea that it is worth paying almost any price for peace.
Architecture Power and National Identity
Author | : Lawrence Vale |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781134729210 |
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The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Transitional Justice in the Asia Pacific
Author | : Renee Jeffery,Hun Joon Kim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107040373 |
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This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
Author | : Chelvadurai Manogaran |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082481116X |
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Concerns the treatment of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
Conflict Peace Security and Development
Author | : Helen Hintjens,Dubravka Zarkov |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781135012489 |
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Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence, security peace and development. Two dominant contemporary approaches are selected for debate on methodologies and ethical choices: rational choice and identity-based theorizing. The chapters are arranged as dialogues around contending approaches, to better understand how the inter-locking fields of violent conflict, peace, development and security can be researched and understood. The book considers how theoretical and methodological approaches relate to different ethical and political choices, including around engagement and intervention in the four interwoven fields. Theoretical, methodological and ethical issues emerge from the critical reviews of academic discourses and case-study based chapters from across the world, including Sri Lanka, Ghana, Colombia and Rwanda. This book is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students and researchers in Development Studies, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies and Security Studies.
Buddhism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Author | : Patrick Grant |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2009-01-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791493670 |
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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.