The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

Biziouras, Nikolaos

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“…The ASEAN way states that the principle of non-interference is the original core foundation upon which regional relations between ASEAN member-states are based [337]. Biziouras [338] has described the ASEAN way as an informal, consensus-oriented decision-making process. Antolik [339] notes that this level of decision-making flexibility has been deemed necessary in creating a regional structure that has not assumed initiatives that are not fully and wholly supported by its member agents, thus increasing the chances for survival of the regional organisation.…”

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Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

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Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail

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Section: The Asean Way As An Attitudementioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

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“…The scholars that concentrated on the impact of civil war have pointed out the negative consequences such as increasing public spending to maintain a war machine, militarizing of civilian affairs, emergence of totalitarian regimes under the guise of protecting the country by means of war, erosion of democratic values and institutions, spread of socially communicable diseases and the emergence of the unbearable number of differently able people (Biziouras, 2014;De Silva, 2012;CATRD, 2001;National Peace Council, 2001;Edirisuriya, 1999;Amarasinge, 1995;Warnapala, 1994). The other groups of scholars have paid attention to possible ways of transforming the violent conflict to none violent conflict.…”

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Women, Civil War and Struggle for Survival: A Study of Tamil Women in Ampara District of Sri Lanka

Withanawasam¹

2021

IJSSR

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Even though the civil war in Sri Lanka officially ended in 2009, the hardship created by war is long-lasting and will take years to reconcile. This research is about the impact of war politics on women of Tamil community in the Ampara district of Sri Lanka during the period of armed conflict. The findings of this study reveal that the girls of the Tamil community were forcefully recruited to join the Tamil militant groups. Hence, parents found the only way to rescue their children and to assure their existence was to arrange teenage marriages. Most of those marriages were not legally registered. This paved the way for the male partners to abandon their spouses, often with children. The women whose children were forcefully recruited to militant forces and whose life was lost in the battle filed were given the dignity of ‘Veera Thai’ (Heroine Mother) with an allowance as gratitude for bearing such a war hero. However, it was revealed the title itself had resulted in many types of hardships. The government also deliberately denied any public assistance to those families. The study has found that the women in the numerically weakest groups during war time, irrespective of age difference, had undergone many and varied hardship. The study further has identified that the hardship experienced by these women continued even in the post-civil war context. Therefore, the study urges that these types of hardship faced by women in the post-war context need to be handled with political sensitivity to the equity and justice for women.

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“…This nation, though strategically positioned at the bottom of the Indian subcontinent with the advantage of being a midway for shipping between the east and the west, is yet to take advantage of its geopolitical commercial importance. Instead it has been embroiled in ethnic conflicts, socialist-type reforms and centralist governments [39]. After 27 years of one of the world's longest and most intractable civil wars, Sri Lanka has moved towards reconciliation and a new government based on strong democratic values and the decentralization of the administration [40].…”

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Managerial Perceptions of Leadership in Sri Lanka: Good Management and Leadership Excellence as Foundation for Sustainable Leadership Capacity Building in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

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In this paper, we examine cultural values that influence the leadership perceptions from a sample of 1140 managers in Sri Lankan organizations. Multivariate analysis such as regression, factor analysis and structural equation modeling was employed to explain leadership excellence. Trust and sustainability were found to be the most important ethical leadership characteristics with three distinct leadership perspectives—nurtured organization, good management and excellent leadership. Implications of this study suggest that trust, sustainability and loyalty should be emulated within a nurtured organization, and good management practice with less emphasis on morality should be emulated for developing HR capacity in Sri Lanka.

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The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

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Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

Women, Civil War and Struggle for Survival: A Study of Tamil Women in Ampara District of Sri Lanka

Managerial Perceptions of Leadership in Sri Lanka: Good Management and Leadership Excellence as Foundation for Sustainable Leadership Capacity Building in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

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