Liberal Peace In Question: Politics of State and Market Reform in Sri LankaKristian Stokke, Jayadeva Uyangoda The present book examines the internationally facilitated peace process between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in order to provide critical insights on contemporary attempts at crafting liberal peace in intrastate conflicts. The general argument is for a broadened political perspective on conflict resolution, extending the focus from the narrow confines of formal peace negotiations and elitist crafting of liberal peace, to the contextual politics of state reforms for group rights and power-sharing and the associated politics of economic reforms for neoliberal development. In examining the contextual politics of state and market reforms in Sri Lanka, the book highlight the tensions between liberal peace and Sinhalese and Tamil nationalisms, demonstrated in the contestations over political exclusion vs. inclusion in peace negotiations, individual human rights vs. group rights, territorial power sharing vs. state sovereignty and neoliberal development vs. social welfare. |
Contents
THE SRI LANKAN CASE | 1 |
Chapter 2 TRAVAILS OF STATE REFORM IN THE CONTEXT OF PROTRACTED CIVIL WAR IN SRI LANKA | 35 |
EXPLORING NORWEGIAN MEDIATION IN SRI LANKA | 63 |
SRI LANKA IN THE JAYEWARDENE YEARS | 77 |
THE LIMITS OF THE PEACE THROUGH DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM IN SRI LANKA | 103 |
Chapter 6 BUYING PEACE? POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE PEACE DIVIDEND ARGUMENT | 121 |
THE CASE OF NORTHERN SRI LANKA | 141 |
Chapter 8 LIBERAL PEACE AND PUBLIC OPINION | 157 |
End Matter | 183 |