FIVE YEARS AFTER: Reviewing Sri Lanka after the end of War, May 2009-May 2014 … in Groundviews

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Articles published in the Special Edition, in order of appearance,

First week

  1. Launch of Special Edition: The end of war in Sri Lanka, five years on, Sanjana Hattotuwa
  2. PLATO’S CAVE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: ELITE FAILURE IN SRI LANKA, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
  3. Is reconciliation achievable without separation in Sri Lanka?, Lionel Bopage
  4. Sri Lanka’s Quiet Heroes, Gibson Bateman
  5. Badiou’s Event and the defeat of the Tigers: A Brief Response to Dayan Jayatilleka, Vangeesa Sumanasekara
  6. Five years on, where we are now: Reconciliation, the Rule of Law and governance, Ravindra
  7. Opened letter to His Majesty Mahinda Rajapakse the Lord of Sri Lanka and the Universe also (translated into Sinhala by Vikalpa here), The Silva
  8. The Silly Idealist, Marisa de Silva
  9. A new phase of mediation to get from post-war to post-conflict Sri Lanka, Jehan Perera
  10. Political settlement or regime change!, Kumar David
  11. THE WAR, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
  12. Kasturi’s Progress, Nalaka Gunewardene
  13. Five Years Later, Indran Amirthanayagam
  14. A Brief History of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance from 2004 to 2014: Statistics and Real Politics, Khana
  15. Keep Off the Grass, Subha Wijesiriwardena
  16. The failure of the media, civil society and the ‘moderates’, Heejaz Hizbullah
  17. Re-visiting the Rajapaksa Hegemonic Project, Dayapala Thiranagama
  18. 5 years after: Reflections as a mother, women and a citizen of Sri Lanka, Visakha Dharmadasa

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Second week

  1. Ideological Cancers within the Sinhala Universe: Roadblocks in the Path of Reconciliation, Michael Roberts
  2. A systems approach based on a rights framework for the governance of Sri Lanka, Dr. Siri Gamage
  3. Problems of success? Post-war Sri Lanka’s international challenges, Dr. Chaminda Weerawardhana
  4. The Search for a Political Solution Five Years after the War, Kalana Senaratne    
  5. The hunt for the missing, Charles Haviland
  6. Mapping 12 years of Sri Lankan opinion, Iromi Perera
  7. Sri Lanka’s media, five years after the end of war, Rasika Manobuddhi Arjuna Ranawana Kshama Ranawana
  8. Lifting the veil to reconciliation, Thrishantha Nanayakkara
  9. Truth, Accountability and Reconciliation in Post-War Sri Lanka, Rohini Hensman
  10. Erasing Identities: Tracing Sri Lanka’s Post-war Journey through the Changing Realities of Trincomalee, Elijah Hoole  
  11. War, Peace, Pluralism and Prosperity, Lalith Gunaratne
  12. Head in my hands, Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy
  13. De Pilo Pendet: Reconciliation and the Catholic Church’s Role in Post-War Sri Lanka, Anupama Ranawana
  14. Attitudinal change necessary to give momentum to the Provincial councils, Gnana Moonesinghe    
  15. SRI LANKA IN 2014 : REPEATING PAST MISTAKES, Tissa Jayatilaka    
  16. The Lost City, Gehan Gunatilleke    
  17. The slow wheels of justice and change: a Sri Lankan case study?, Niran Anketell     

Third week

  1. Post-war Economic Progress: Investment, Positioning, and Reforms in a New Sri Lankan Economy, Anushka Wijesinha 
  2. Quo vadis Sri Lanka?, Yolanda Foster
  3. The Single Story of Sri Lanka, Bhavani Fonseka
  4. The Five-Year Tongue Twisters, V.V. Ganeshananthan 
  5. A ‘victory day’ sketch, Dharisha Bastians
  6. Things Seem Better, No?, Guy Gunaratne
  7. Life in the Open-Air Panopticon: Surveillance and the Social Isolation of Ex-LTTE Combatants in Sri Lanka, Amarnath Amarasingam
  8. A response to the critiques of the victory celebrations, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
  9. Writing on the Wall: A Sinhala Prayer in a Tamil Church, Udan Fernando 
  10. Happy Families, Ameena Hussein 
  11. waiting for the war to end, Sharni Jayawardena
  12. Good women and bad women of the post-war nation, Chulani Kodikara
  13. Questions, five years on, Pulsara Liyanage 
  14. Sari, Priyanga Hettiarachi
  15. On Christian Essentialism, Structural Correspondences and Philosophical Companionships, Vangeesa Sumanasekara 

Fourth week

  1. Understanding the National Question as a Pre-Democratic Problem: A Skeptical Note on the Southern Reform agenda, Kumaravadivel Guruparan
  2. THE STATE AND WAR: THE POLITICS OF PHILOSOPHY, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
  3. Celebrating 5 years of Post-War Conflict, The Wayfarer
  4. Politics of Quotations: Concluding Rejoinder to Dayan Jayatilleka, Vangeesa Sumanasekara
  5. OVERCOMING THE POST-WAR MALAISE: WHY SRI LANKA NEEDS A REFORM MINISTRY AND WHAT IT SHOULD DOAsanga Welikala 
  6. War, Peace and the Manufacturing of Rajapaksa Myths, Tisaranee Gunasekara
  7. Cartoon: Reconciliation Process, Wasantha Siriwardena

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