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Healing the Wounds: Rebuilding Sri Lanka after the War.
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rebuilding the war-ravaged communities and healing the conflict survivors who continue to suffer from the wounds of war present major challenges for post-war Sri Lanka. While progress has been made regarding resettlement of IDPs and rebuilding physical infrastructure, corresponding efforts to rebuild the communities and heal the social and emotional wounds of the war have not been forthcoming on the part of the ruling elite. Based on research conducted among the affected populations, this volume makes a strong case for addressing the root causes of the war and rebuilding the war-torn communities with a view to achieving demilitarization, sustainable peace and human development.
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- Herath, Dhammika, 1975
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Rural development through social capital? An inquest into the linkages between social capital and development in war-torn villages in Sri Lanka
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis concerns the potential causal relationship between social capital and rural development in war-torn villages in the north of Sri Lanka. The social capital thesis centers on the notion that social relationships matter to development-related outcomes and reconstruction of war-torn societies. this theoretical understanding and the conditions in the north of Sri Lanka motivated the author to apply the concept of social capital to study development in war-torn villages. Observations made in the area of study highlighted that development in this area depends not only on social capital but also on many other explanatory factors. Thus, the study builds a research model that can also take account of these other explanatory factors. Ethnographic information gathered in the study area leads the study to form two hypotheses: bonding social capital causes development; and bridging social capital causes development. The study attempts to determine whether there is a causal relationship, and if such a relationship exists, the nature of it. This study finds that development is a complex phenomenon: social capital cannot entirely account for development, while other explanatory factors, such as natural assets and infrastructure issues, also strongly influence the prospects of development. The study was conducted in six rural war-torn villages in the north of Sri Lanka in 2005. This study involved two phases spanning a time period of almost one year. The study commence with initial observations, collection of official records and brief interviews with key figures in the area. It then conducted close observations, case studies and interviews in the study villages. In the second phase, the study administered a survey to all (416) households in the study villages. The data was analyzed using two computer-based data analysis programs: SPSS and KISREL.
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Social capital and poverty: an analysis of the efficacy of the social capital approach to understand a culture of poverty situation
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Ingår i: 18th European conference of modern south Asian studies, 6-9 July, Lund, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper is based on a research study on the intergenerational transfer of poverty in Sri Lanka. The location is a tea plantation in the District of Kandy. The tea plantation workers are one of the poorest groups living in absolute poverty. This study focused on how the intergenerational transfer of poverty has been supported by a culture of poverty and the absence of social capital. While the study underlies the significance of the culture of poverty as still a valid concept to understand poverty, it also highlights other social and cultural dynamics of poverty including low levels of social capital which impede the development and mobility of the poor. It explored many Systemic causes of poverty which lies beyond the control of the individual and illustrate how the concept of social capital can add to our understanding of poverty.
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- Herath, Dhammika, 1975
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Social capital in reconstruction
- 2005
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Ingår i: SEACSN conference 2004: "Issues and challenges for peace and conflict resolution in southeast Asia", 12-15 January 2004, Penang, Malaysia.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Herath, Dhammika, 1975, et al.
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Swimming upstream: fighting systemic corruption in Sri Lanka
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Ingår i: Contemporary South Asia. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-4935 .- 1469-364X. ; 27:2, s. 259-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Corruption is endemic, pervasive and embedded in the very fabric in social life in some societies, although its degree varies case to case. Previous academic research and anti-corruption watchdogs have examined corruption in Sri Lanka, where corruption is perceived to be pervasive and endemic but, existing studies are inadequate to explain why corruption occurs and anti-corruption continues to fail in Sri Lanka. In our study, we use the contrasting perspectives of ‘collective action problem’ and the ‘principal-agent’ framework to analyse the dynamics that cause and maintain corruption in Sri Lanka as well as the obstacles and possibilities that people fighting corruption are experiencing. We address this aim in a novel way: our observations and fieldwork in Sri Lanka got us in contact with individuals who made concerted efforts to reveal and oppose corruption at different levels; we call them ‘corruption fighters’. We argue, through the insights from corruption fighters, that corruption represents a ‘collective action problem’ and that to understand why corruption fighters still choose to oppose it, they need to be situated within a discourse of corruption and close attention must be paid to personal motivations and the way they construct meaning in the fight against corruption.
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