Theoretical Approaches Explaining the Ethno-Political Conflict in Sri Lanka

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. M. Imtiyaz Abdul Razak
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

scholarly journals Class Analysis and the Dialectics of Modernization in the Middle East

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Bill
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
To Receive

Class analysis stands as one of the ancient and classic theoretical approaches to the study of politics and society. Stratification by class has been traditionally utilized by scholars and statesmen to explain patterns of political conflict and processes of social change. In modern American political science, however, this approach has yet to receive the attention and application that have marked traditional formal-legal and contemporary structural-functional analysis. The sharp reaction that developed against the former took the immediate shape of the group and elite approaches which to a large degree continue to displace or disguise class analysis.

‘Girl still burning inside my head’: Reflections on suicide in Sri Lanka

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malathi de Alwis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Causal Explanation ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Scholarly Literature

This chapter reflects on why suicide has become such a pervasive phenomenon in Sri Lankan society by engaging with the extensive scholarly literature that exists on this subject. Rather than trying to provide some overarching, mono-causal explanation, it seeks to illuminate the complexity of the issue and the varied and nuanced ways in which we might try to apprehend it, be it in conjunction with homicide or political conflict, social change or sexual anomie, restraint or collectivism. While problematising our re-course to the ‘work of culture’ and reading statistics against the grain, this chapter also highlights gendered dimensions and broader conceptual strands where we may not have thought to seek them.

scholarly journals Economic Roots of Political Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka

World Economy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1295-1314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirimal Abeyratne
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Conflict

Theoretical Approaches to Sri Lankan History and the Early Portuguese Period

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Strathern
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
A Site

In the past twenty years or so the history of Sri Lanka has become a site of vibrant controversy, largely because the current ethnic conflict has loaded any kind of reflection on the historical boundaries of political, ethnic or religious identity with an immediate emotional charge. The intellectual reverberations of post-colonialism and the vigorous contributions of anthropologists have added rich strata of theoretical thinking. However, despite one or two calls to the contrary, the periods of Portuguese (1505-1658) and Dutch influence (1658-1796) in the island have tended to moulder on the periphery of these debates. The purpose of this article is to bring some of this thinking to bear on the evidence from the sixteenth century in order to stimulate fresh perspectives on both the events of that time and the models themselves. With the arrival of the Portuguese and their increasing involvement in the affairs of the island during the long reign of Bhuvanekabahu VII (1521-51), the darkness of the Kotte period is suddenly illuminated by wonderfully detailed flashes of events. The flurry of letters written by contemporary Portuguese settlers, officials and missionaries, and the attentions of Portuguese chroniclers such as João de Barros, Diogo do Couto, Gaspar Correia and Fernão de Queirós bring quite new forms of evidence into the historian's purview.

scholarly journals Reflection of the problematic of political conflicts in the history of public thought

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Nikolay Pupykin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conflict Interaction

This article analyzes the evolution of theoretical approaches of the representatives of foreign (European and US) public thought towards studying the problem of political peace and conflict interaction. The object of this research is the conflictogenic political relations as a form of historical development of the state and social institutions. The subject of this research is the steady development of socio-political and socio-philosophical theories related to political conflicts and social stability. Research methodology is based on the structural-functional and systemic analysis, comparative-historical and problematic-chronological methods, as well as other general scientific and special principles of historical cognition. The author comes to the conclusion that the representations of the political forms of social conflict interaction have deeply rooted causal links with different historical eras (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Modern Age, Contemporary History), and have made a long way from “naivety” and dogmatism to interdisciplinarity, from unconditional historicism to social systematicity in their conceptual approaches. The novelty of this article consists in comprehensive examination of the evolution of methodology for studying the conceptual-categorical space of political conflict through the prism of the historical development of mankind, thereby revealing the impact of conflictogenic nature of the political process upon the course of world history.

scholarly journals Les dimensions internes des comportements en temps de crise : étude de cas entre l'Inde et le Sri Lanka 1983-1990

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Carment
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
The Government ◽  
Domestic Affairs

On July 29 1987, after 20 years of sustained inter-communal conflict and under great political pressure and war weariness, leaders of the government of Sri Lanka signed an Accord with the Indian government which hady at Sri Lanka s request, intervened in Sri Lanka's military and political conflict. The Accord aimed at the cessation of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Indian involvement in Sri Lanka's domestic affairs signalled a decisional shift among Sri Lanka's leaders from a policy of resolving the conflict by military means to one of seeking political accommodation with the Tamil separatists. However, the presence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) and previous attempts by the Indian government to air drop supplies to Tamil rebels signalled the beginning of international crisis between India and Sri Lanka. This paper traces the events and decisional flow of Sri Lanka s elites from the pre-crisis period ofl983 to crisis abatement in 1990 in an attempt to understand the events and patterns of behaviour that led to an international crisis between Sri Lanka and India and more generally to elucidate the relationship between domestic ethnic conflict and international crisis. This paper argues that Sri Lanka entered into an international crisis precisely because of internal threats to its political integrity engendered by its domestic ethnic conflict. First, the theoretical literature is explored, allowing for a fuller exploration of the linkages between international crisis and ethnic conflict. Second, the perceptions of Sri Lanka's decision-maker s in response to increasing Indian involvement during the pre-crisis and crisis period are assessed. Third an analysis of SriLankan decision-making process is weighed against patterns of coping found in the theoretical literature. Fourth and finally, implications for further research are explored, specifically the role that ethnic conflicts play in triggering international crises and the implications that has for the management of ethnic conflicts by regional hegemons.

Buddhism and the Religious Other

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asian ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Conditioning Factors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Religious Other

Buddhism is sometimes characterized as having an inclusivist attitude to the religious Other. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, however, an exclusivist approach to the religious Other emerged in Sri Lanka. Using the case study of a Buddhist temple in Dambulla, this article examines the conditioning factors behind this phenomenon. It is divided into four sections. The first examines recent theoretical approaches to Buddhism and inter-religious encounter, and argues that a spectrum of Buddhist approaches to the Other has long been present in text and tradition. The second offers background information about the Dambulla temple and its leading monk, Inamuluwe Sumangala Thero. The third explores three representations of the mosque attack, those of Sumangala, the Hindus of Dambulla, and secular analysts. The fourth suggests three conditioning factors for the dominance of Sumangala’s representation and the emergence of what could be considered an uncharacteristically exclusivist Buddhist approach to the religious Other within South Asian Buddhism.

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