Yes / 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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/927 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Witharana, Dileepa |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Working Paper |
| 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). |
| Relation | http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/confres/papers/pdfs/CCR12.pdf |
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