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SRI LANKAN SOLDIERS at Palampeddi village in northwestern Mannar, on July 4.-REUTERS

Lessons of a conflict

Ceasefires and insistence on human rights protection may not help peace processes in strife-torn countries.
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Taiwan, Taliban or Taliwan?

If the peace process fails to deliver an equality-based federal system as a permanent political settlement, there are three possible de facto outcomes
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Political power over ethnic identity

Successive Sri Lankan governments have sought to address the ethnic conflict through the provision of regional autonomy and the armed conflict through
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Neither war nor peace

SRI LANKA is between war and peace. There are three scenarios that can emerge from the ceasefire agreement between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan
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