Asia Sri Lanka’s Tamils are faced with a Catch-22 November 12, 2019 0 Image credit: Old Parliament by Scott Edmunds/Flickr, license: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by Viruben Nandakumar. On 16 November 2019, Sri Lankans will head to the polls to…
Asia Gotabaya: Sri Lanka’s strong man? August 22, 2019 0 Image Credit: OIST/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Viruben Nandakumar. ‘You talk about human rights, you talk about freedom of individuals, you talk about reconciliation, but all…
Asia Why accountability matters: The case of Sri Lanka June 18, 2019 0 Written by Viruben Nandakumar. Image Credit: Takver/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Over a decade has passed since the Sri Lankan civil war, but the memories and trauma of…
Asia Sri Lanka’s port development and the role of the BRI May 24, 2019 0 Written by Pabasara Kannangara. Image credit: Katharine Adeney (All Rights Reserved). Sri Lanka is strategically located at the centre of the Indian Ocean and is in…
Asia Combating the weaponisation of digital media in Sri Lanka May 23, 2019 0 Written by Nuzaifa Hussain. Image credit: mkhmarketing/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. A temporary block on several social media platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Viber, IMO,…
Asia Tourism vs. remittances: The impact of the Easter attacks on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings May 22, 2019 0 Written by Bilesha Weeraratne. Image credit: Ronald Saunders/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Sri Lanka was only a few days short of celebrating a decade of peace…
conflict Sri Lanka’s Leviathan May 1, 2019 0 Written by Viruben Nandakumar On 21 April 2019 three Christian churches and three luxury hotels were attacked by suicide bombers, leading to the deaths of…
Education Project Hope: A charity from Nottingham improving the lives of single mothers in Sri Lanka November 6, 2018 0 Kilian Bachmair As part of the Rosie May Foundation’s international internship programme, four students from the University of Nottingham spent three weeks at the foundation’s…
conflict Reconciliation in Sri Lanka November 5, 2018 1 Written by Viruben Nandakumar. Almost a decade has passed since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, but progress in terms of addressing…
Democracy Primer: Sirisena-Rajapaksa Coup in Sri Lanka October 29, 2018 0 Written by Virbuen Nandakumar On Friday night Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena, sacked the sitting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was…