Push Back: Sri Lanka's Dance With Global Governance
by Judith Large /
2017 / English / EPUB
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After decades of conflict, the Sri Lankan government in 2009
proclaimed the decisive defeat of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of
Elam. Since then, the state has proved resistant to attempts by
the UN and other international bodies to promote postwar
reconciliation. In this incisive new work, Judith Large
investigates the ways in which the Sri Lankan government has been
able to subvert international diplomatic efforts, and she
explores the wider context of rising Sinhalese nationalism, the
attendant growth of discrimination against Tamils, and efforts by
both the Tamil diaspora and groups within Sri Lanka to lobby the
international community.
After decades of conflict, the Sri Lankan government in 2009
proclaimed the decisive defeat of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of
Elam. Since then, the state has proved resistant to attempts by
the UN and other international bodies to promote postwar
reconciliation. In this incisive new work, Judith Large
investigates the ways in which the Sri Lankan government has been
able to subvert international diplomatic efforts, and she
explores the wider context of rising Sinhalese nationalism, the
attendant growth of discrimination against Tamils, and efforts by
both the Tamil diaspora and groups within Sri Lanka to lobby the
international community.
The implications of Large’s work also extend far beyond Sri Lanka
to the larger conversation about the integral role the
international community plays in negotiating an end to conflicts
and supervising the rebuilding of post-conflict societies.
The implications of Large’s work also extend far beyond Sri Lanka
to the larger conversation about the integral role the
international community plays in negotiating an end to conflicts
and supervising the rebuilding of post-conflict societies.Push Back
Push Back will be vital reading not only for those
interested in Sri Lanka, but for those interested in the wider
implications of the conflict for human rights, peacemaking, and
geopolitics.
will be vital reading not only for those
interested in Sri Lanka, but for those interested in the wider
implications of the conflict for human rights, peacemaking, and
geopolitics.