The New Water: Opportunities and Challenges of the Rise to Prominence of Groundwater in Sri Lanka in the Face of Socioeconomic and Climatic Change

2018 ◽  
pp. 759-799
Author(s):  
Sanjiv de Silva ◽  
Mohamed Aheeyar ◽  
Indika Arulingam ◽  
Herath Manthrithilake
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
The Face

Processes of Constitutional Transitions in the Face of Territorial Cleavages

2019 ◽  
pp. 330-351
Author(s):  
Cheryl Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Postponement

This chapter discusses the implications of territorial cleavages for the process of constitutional transition by drawing on the experiences of various countries such as Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Nepal, Philippines, Scotland, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine. It first considers four variables that are likely to affect the process for constitutional transition within a state in which there are significant cleavages along territorial lines: the nature of transition, the nature of territorial cleavage, the challenges confronting statehood, and the involvement of international actors. It then examines four dimensions of the processes of transition that may be influenced by territorial cleavages: phases of the transition process, agenda setting, deliberation and ratification, and implementation and other matters. Finally, it explains how constitutional transitions are shaped by the postponement of final decisions on key matters through deliberate ambiguity, incomplete prescription or reliance on the future operation of rules on constitutional amendments.

scholarly journals Dynamics and Stability in the Encounters between Asian Buddhists and European Christians

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Berkwitz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

The aim of this paper is to theorize broadly about how cultural encounters between Asian Buddhists and European Christians spurred various efforts to demarcate, systematize, and stabilize religious traditions. It focuses on the dynamics seen in Buddhist responses to contact situations from the sixteenth century onwards in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Japan in order to map out some patterns of interaction among these communities. Theories of cultural imitation and independence do not suffice to theorize interreligious encounters in these cases. Using select examples, this paper will contend that Asian Buddhists often responded to various kinds of European interventions by redefining and reimagining the Buddhist tradition in new ways in order to argue for its continued validity and to secure its stability in the face of external encounters and pressures.

Sources of human insecurity in the face of hydro-climatic change

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 327-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Zografos ◽  
Marisa C. Goulden ◽  
Giorgos Kallis
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
The Face

Sri Lanka in 2014

Asian Survey ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Nira Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Health Minister ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government

The year 2014 witnessed a few cracks in the government of the United People’s Freedom Alliance in the face of internal and external challenges. Still, anti-Muslim violence, setbacks in provincial elections, and mounting concerns over the coalition’s human rights record failed to disrupt continued high economic growth. The surprise was the January 8, 2015, election: defeating the incumbent, on January 9, former Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president.

scholarly journals Finding God in All Things through Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Novita Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Universe

Poetry is a language of devotion. It is the melody that resonates from one’s pure conscience. Being the most important and richest part of our spiritual practice, people read and write poems to help them gain understanding about themselves, each other, and the world around them. Examining world poetry, mainly from America, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka which  tell about the presence of God, this article attempts to find out how God the Creator is present and represented, focusing as it does on the connection between poetry and spiritual exercises. Each of the seven poems under discussion is read by considering Ignatian Spirituality of which the core is “Finding God in All Things”. The selected poems show that God can indeed be found in three main spots. First, God resides in the universe. The presence of God in nature is a common theme shared by the poets discussed. Second, the speakers of the poems find God within themselves. They find God through discretion. Third, some of them find the face of God in that of other people because humans are created in His image. The poems open an awareness that God is present in the sufferings of others. In conclusion, poetry serves as both prayers and spiritual exercises that can improve people’s inner compassion and justice.

scholarly journals Are homegarden ecosystems resilient to climatic change? An analysis of adaptation strategies of homegardeners in Sri Lanka

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeevika Weerahewa ◽  
Gamini Pushpakumara ◽  
Pradeepa Silva ◽  
Chathuranga Daulagala ◽  
Ranjith Punyawardena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Adaptation Strategies

Locations of Authenticity: S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and the Search for Indigeneity

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshana Rambukwella
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Face ◽  
Paddy Cultivation ◽  
Village Life

Visions of a grand hydraulic civilization and a pastoral ideal of paddy cultivation–based village life have shaped Sinhala nationalist discourse since the late nineteenth century. Derived from colonial sociology, the local political elite fashioned these ideas into a discourse of Sinhala authenticity that positioned themselves as legitimate representatives of the people while simultaneously placing them as custodians of national culture. However, this was a fraught dynamic given the elites’ highly Anglicized nature and their inability to maintain control over this discourse in the face of wider participation in public culture in the first half of the twentieth century. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who became prime minister in 1956, eight years after Sri Lanka gained independence from British rule, is popularly seen as one of the few elite politicians of the late colonial period who sought to engage substantively in mass-based politics and is remembered as a heroic anti-colonial figure. This article explores the contradictions and ironies in Bandaranaike's turn to indigeneity and the political and cultural implications of this turn. It also briefly discusses authenticity's continued resonance in contemporary Sri Lanka.

(Dis)connected Empires

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Biedermann
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kōtte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue to answer one troubling question: why, in the end, did one side decide to conquer the other? To find the answers, this book explores the imperial ideas that shaped the politics of Renaissance Iberia and sixteenth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that, whilst some of these ideas and the political idioms built around them were perceived as commensurate by the various parties involved, differences also emerged early on. This prepared the ground for a new kind of conquest politics, which changed the inter-imperial game at the end of the sixteenth century. The transition from suzerainty-driven to sovereignty-fixated empire building changed the face of Lankan and Iberian politics forever, and is of relevance to global historians at large. Through its scrutiny of diplomacy, political letter-writing, translation practices, warfare, and art, (Dis)connected Empires paints a troubling panorama of connections breeding divergence and leading to communicational collapse. It explores a key chapter in the pre-history of British imperialism in Asia, highlighting how diplomacy and mutual understandings can, under certain conditions, produce conquest. It also connects the histories of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This is a timely intervention in the current debate on the future of Global History.

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