This paper studies the contradictions of peasant politics in Sri Lanka's dry zone frontier in a
highly militarized colonization scheme ('System L'of the Mahaweli Development Programme …

This article examines the dynamics of brokerage surrounding two moments of rupture (the
tsunami and the end of the war) in Hambantota, a district in southern Sri Lanka and a key …

Sri Lanka's long-running separatist war, which began in 1983 and lasted for 26 years, ended
with a military victory for the government armed forces in 2009. Although the likelihood of a …

Abstract This article uses Sri Lanka as a case study to impel engagement of decoloniality
with transitional justice. It identifies gaps in the literature critical of transitional justice …

Critical IR scholarship has argued that diaspora are governed in line with global political
dynamics that class them as post/neocolonial, or neoliberal economic subjects. Fewer …

This book examines how states justify the domestic use of military force to foreign
audiences. By deploying a sociological approach to legitimacy and drawing on conceptual …

This article examines the dynamics of brokerage surrounding two moments of rupture (the
tsunami and the end of the war) in Hambantota, a district in southern Sri Lanka and a key …

Since the end of WWII, political scientists have noted that ethnicity is regularly the focus of
violent conflicts. The present thesis proposes a conceptual framework explaining the …

After the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009), the victorious Government of Sri
Lanka was confronted with the need to “win the peace” and re-build the nation in both …

Geospatial analyses are vital in contemporary conflict studies as the incidence of armed
conflicts frequently varies both in space and time. This article investigates the spatiotemporal …