Reports

The cessation of violence between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the LTTE resulted in the spontaneous return of 335,656 internally displaced persons between January 2002 and December 2003 to their own lands. These communities faced the enormous…

Program Description USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) Sri Lanka program assists in generating greater support for a negotiated peace settlement to end the long-standing conflict in Sri Lanka. To accomplish this aim, USAID/OTI's three objectives are to: Demonstrate tangible benefits…

FY 2004 Budget - $9,700,000 Background After two decades of war that have short-circuited development and torn the nation's social fabric, Sri Lanka finds itself today with an unprecedented opportunity to achieve sustainable peace. The U.S. Agency for International Development's Office…

The Government of Japan has dispatched the government mission of election observer for the purpose of monitoring general election in Sri Lanka to be held on April 2 (Friday), 2004. This is the first instance for the Government of…

Communities of the Vanni area in northern Sri Lanka are suffering the aftermath of over 20 years of civil war. During this time the Sri Lankan Army claim to have laid approximately 1 million mines - the majority of…

Business and Peace in Colombo INTRODUCTION How has the business community in Sri Lanka responded to the challenges of making peace work? This section of the CHA's national peace audit examines how Colombo's business community - its corporations, institutions, associations and…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The activities of local NGOs in the Colombo District represent the entire gamut of interests, concerns and activities in support of peace processes. A wide array of organizations numbering eighteen was surveyed for thid report. This number includes…

SECTOR REVIEWED The sector under review in this study is the political party sector comprising of the parties: -United National Party -Tamil National Alliance -Sri lanka muslim congress -Sihala Urumaya -People's Alliance -Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna -Eelam People's Democratic Party -People's Front of Liberation Tigers -New Left Front SPECIFIC…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. The organizations researched here represent the main religious traditions of Sri Lanka. They are generally known to be working for peace at either national or regional level. The choice of organization was also governed by the possibility…

Australia will provide a $1.5 million human rights package for South Asia, the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Chris Gallus, announced today in Geneva at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights. 'Human rights are best protected when a country…