Nationalism and the State in Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
K.M. de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The State

State-Minority Contestations in Post-colonial Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Mansoor Mohamed Fazil
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Research Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Force ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Military

Abstract This research focuses on the issue of state-minority contestations involving transforming and reconstituting each other in post-independent Sri Lanka. This study uses a qualitative research method that involves critical categories of analysis. Migdal’s theory of state-in-society was applied because it provides an effective conceptual framework to analyse and explain the data. The results indicate that the unitary state structure and discriminatory policies contributed to the formation of a minority militant social force (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – The LTTE) which fought with the state to form a separate state. The several factors that backed to the defeat of the LTTE in 2009 by the military of the state. This defeat has appreciably weakened the Tamil minority. This study also reveals that contestations between different social forces within society, within the state, and between the state and society in Sri Lanka still prevail, hampering the promulgation of inclusive policies. This study concludes that inclusive policies are imperative to end state minority contestations in Sri Lanka.

Implementation of e-procurement for pharmaceuticals: perspectives of the staff of the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Prasanna Dinesh Koggalage ◽  
K.M.D.R. Dassanayake ◽  
P.K.S.S. Kulasuriya
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The State

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Staniland
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
Conflict Outcomes ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Empirical Record ◽  
Hard Place

Ethnic insurgents sometimes defect to join forces with the state during civil wars. Ethnic defection can have important effects on conflict outcomes, but its causes have been understudied. Using Sunni defection in Iraq as a theory-developing case, this article offers a theory of “fratricidal flipping” that identifies lethal competition between insurgent factions as an important cause of defection. It examines the power of the fratricidal-flipping mechanism against competing theories in the cases of Kashmir and Sri Lanka. These wars involve within-conflict variation in defection across groups and over time. A detailed study of the empirical record, including significant fieldwork, suggests that fratricide was the dominant trigger for defection, while government policy played a secondary role in facilitating pro-state paramilitarism. Deep ideological disagreements were surprisingly unimportant in driving defection. The argument is probed in other wars in Asia. The complex internal politics of insurgent movements deserve careful attention.

Buddha-Relics in the Lives of Southern Asian Polities

Numen ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Literary Memory ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractDrawing on literary and inscriptional evidence from Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia, this essay examines the place of Buddha-relics — potent traces of a Buddha — in the life cycle of southern Asian political formations. In the formation of new polities and/or new dynasties, relics were drawn into the physical landscape and literary memory of the state, in order to provide protection and to claim desirable lineage and authority. At times of heightened military and political activity, when kingdoms were at risk, the protection and deployment of relics, and their ritual engagement, formed part of the state's central technologies. During periods of victory and restoration, relic festivals and the enhancement of a landscape embedded with relics, were used to display, affirm, and protect the royal court.

scholarly journals Community-based psychiatry services in Sri Lanka: A new model in the making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh Rajasuriya
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Community Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Service Development ◽  
State Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Authorities

Sri Lanka is a lower middle-income small island nation in the Indian Ocean with a multi-ethnic population of 22 million. The healthcare system of the country is well-established and fairly advanced, the delivery of which is free to the consumer. The health indicators of the country are impressive compared to regional figures. Psychiatric care in Sri Lanka saw a rapid development over the last four decades as the care model transformed from an asylum-based one, established during the British colonial times, to a district-wise hospital-based care delivery model. Gradually, the teams that provided inpatient and outpatient services at the hospitals started to also provide community-based care. The newly added community based services include outreach clinics, residential intermediate rehabilitation centres, home based care, community resource/support centres and telephone help lines. There is no or little separate funding for community-based care services. The teams that deliver community services are funded, mostly indirectly, by the state health authorities. This is so as these community teams are essentially the same psychiatry teams that are based at the hospitals, which are funded and run by the state health authorities. This lack of separation of the community and hospital teams without separate and dedicated funding is an impediment to service development, which needs to be addressed. Paradoxically, it conforms an advantage by making care delivery from the hospital to the community continuous, as it is the same team that provides both hospital- and community-based care. In addition to the essential mental health care provision in the community with this basic infrastructure, each community service has improvised and adapted utilization of other resources available to them, formally as well as informally, to compensate their financial and human resource limitations. These other resources are the community officials and the community services of the non-health sectors of the government, mainly of the civil administration. Though sustainability maybe questionable when services involve informal resources from the non-health sectors, it has so far proven useful and effective, in a resource-poor environment, as it brings the community and various sectors together to facilitate services to support their own community.

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