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Community Peace Work in Sri Lanka: A Critical Appraisal

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dc.creator Witharana, Dileepa
dc.date 2008-11-27T13:43:42Z
dc.date 2008-11-27T13:43:42Z
dc.date 2002
dc.identifier Witharana, D. (2002). Community Peace Work in Sri Lanka: A Critical Appraisal. Bradford, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. CCR Working Papers: No. 12.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10454/927
dc.description Yes
dc.description This paper looks at community peace work in Sri Lanka, and represents work in its early stages. It provides a view of peace work from the perception of a Sri Lankan community peace activist. The popular practice of treating community peace work as an apolitical exercise will be challenged. An overview of the meta-narratives of the Sri Lankan conflict will be provided, since these inform the broader analytic context which needs to be understood for successful community peace work to be undertaken. Community peace building practice, which draws from knowledge of the international conflict resolution discourse, is treated as just one `peace¿ approach among several. Community level work is seen as one contribution to the overall peace effort in finding a resolution to the Sri Lankan conflict.
dc.language en
dc.relation http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/confres/papers/pdfs/CCR12.pdf
dc.rights © 2002 University of Bradford. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk).
dc.subject Conflict Resolution
dc.subject Peacebuilding
dc.subject Sri Lanka
dc.subject Community Peace Work
dc.title Community Peace Work in Sri Lanka: A Critical Appraisal
dc.type Working Paper


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