Sri Lanka: News and Analysis
- Negotiations: Amal Jayasinghe, “Norway Puts Sri Lanka on Notice Amid Fresh War Fears,” Yahoo News, 9 June 2006, http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060609/ts_afp/srilankaunrestnorwaytigers
- Negotiations: Doug Mellgren, “Sri Lanka Talks with Rebels Collapse,” Washington Post, 8 June 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801508.html
- Negotiations: “Sri Lanka Warring Parties Head for Oslo Talks,” Yahoo News, 4 June 2006, http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060604/wl_asia_afp/srilankaunresttigersnorway
- Conflict: “EU Bans Sri Lanka’s Rebel Tamil Tigers—Diplomats,” Washington Post, 29 May 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900179.html
- Conflict & new peace process: Alan Keenan, “Sri Lanka: Between Peace and War,” openDemocracy, 15 May 2006, http://www.openDemocracy.net/democracy-protest/srilanka_3544.jsp
- Conflict: Paul Danaher, “Sri Lanka’s War in all but Name,” BBC News Online, 12 May 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4764521.stm
- Economy: “Sri Lanka’s Overseas Donors Meet in Tokyo to Assess Peace Bid,” Bloomberg News, 30 May 2006, www.bloomberg.com
- Conflict: Somini Dengupta, “Ethnic Divisions in Sri Lanka Seem Wider Than Ever,” New York Times, 11 May 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/world/asia/11lanka.html
- Environment: American Geophysical Union, “Sri Lanka Water Supply Still Suffers Effects of 2004 Tsunami,” News Release, Washington, DC, 8 May 2006, http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0613.html
- Conflict: Randeep Ramesh, “Tigers Tear Each Other Apart,” The Observer, 7 May 2006, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1769335,00.html
- Conflict: “Thousands Flee Sri Lanka Strikes,” BBC News Online, 26 April 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4946730.stm
- Conflict: “Bomb Targets Sri Lanka Army Chief,” BBC News Online, 25 April 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4941744.stm
- Conflict: Human Rights Watch, “Sri Lanka: Government Must Respond to Anti-Tamil Violence,” 25 April 2006, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/25/slanka13262.htm
- Conflict: B. Raman, “Sri Lanka: The Wounded Tiger,” South Asia Analysis Group (India), Paper No. 46, 23 April 2006, http://www.saag.org/papers18/paper1773.html
- Conflict Resolution: Michael Vatikiotis, “Step in to End Sri Lanka’s War,” Opinion, International Herald Tribune, 20 April 2006, http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/04/20/opinion/edvatik.php
- Conflict Resolution: “Tamil Tigers Call Off Peace Talks,” BBC News Online, 120April 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4925690.stm
- Dumeetha Luthra, “Sri Lanka—Talks or War?” BBC News Online, 19 April 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4918830.stm
- Conflict Resolution: “Sri Lankan Peace Talks in Doubt,” BBC News Online, 15 April 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4911554.stm
- Conflict Resolution: Amantha Perera, “Sri Lanka: Nationalists’ Defeat Gives Geneva Talks a Chance,” Inter Press Service News Agency, 3 April 2006, http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=32743
- Conflict Dynamics: Peter Apps, "Sri Lanka and Rebels Rearm Despite Talks—Army Chief," Reuters India, 24 March 2006, http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-24T170310Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-242043-1.xml
- Human Rights / Conflict Finance: Human Rights Watch, Funding the “Final War”. LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora (New York, March 2006), http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/ltte0306/.
- Human Rights: Amnesty International, “Sri Lanka: A Climate of Fear in the East,” 3 February 2006, web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGASA370012006.
- Conflict Dynamics: Centre for Policy Alternatives, “Monitoring Factors Affecting the Sri Lankan Peace Process: Synthesis Report, Third Quarterly August-October 2005,” (Colombo, Sri Lanka), http://www.cpalanka.org/research_papers/Synthesis_Report_Q3.pdf.
- Refugees: “Sri Lanka: Imperative to Respond to Needs of Conflict Displaced,” Refugees International Bulletin, 28 October, 2005, www.refugeesinternational.org.
- Environment: United Nations Environment Programme and Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka: Post-Tsunami Environmental Assessment (Geneva and Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, October 2005), http://www.unep.org/Tsunami/sri_lanka_post_tsunami.asp.
- Refugees: Global IDP Project, “Sri Lanka: Political Instability Hampers IDP Return,” (Geneva: Norwegian Refugee Council, 1 September 2005), http://www.idpproject.org/.
- Conflict Resolution: Jonathan Goodhand and Bart Klem, with Dilrukshi Fonseka, S.I. Keethaponcalan, and Shonali Sardesai, “Aid, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, 2000 – 2005, August 2005,” available at: http://www.asiafoundation.org/Locations/srilanka_publications.html
- Conflict Resolution: Alan Keenan, “No Peace, No War,” Boston Review, summer 2005, http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/keenan.html.
- Refugees: Global IDP Project, “Sri Lanka: Response to Tsunami Crisis Must Also Target Conflict-Affected IDPs” (Geneva: Norwegian Refugee Council, 7 March 2005), http://www.idpproject.org/
- Conflict Resolution: Kethesh Loganathan, “Scope and Limitations of Linking Post-Tsunami Reconstruction with Peace-Building,” CPA Background Paper (Colombo, Sri Lanka: Centre for Policy Alternatives, February 2005), http://www.cpalanka.org/research_papers/Tsunami_Reconstruction_and_Peacebuilding.doc.
- Background: Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, “Dysfunctional Democracy and the Dirty War in Sri Lanka,” Asia Pacific Issues, No. 52 (Honolulu: East-West Center, May 2001), http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/api052.pdf.
- Background: Jeremy Armon and Liz Philipson, eds., Accord Issue 4: Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka (London: Conciliation Resources, 1998), http://www.c-r.org/accord/sri/accord4/index.shtml.