Conflict prevention in post-war Sri Lanka : obstacles and the way forward

TL;DRAbstract

After the end of the devastating protracted civil war, Sri Lanka is undergoing through a comprehensive post war preventive peace building process. These post war efforts in the country reveal a unique approach of contemporary conflict prevention enterprise in the context of the way the government conducts its post war activities. The emergence of the victors’ peace situation poses question towards the conflict prevention paradigm, which does not give any clear guidance to prevent relapse and establish sustainable and positive peace in such a context where the victors lacks a political will to address the root causes of conflict through political reform and to use the conflict prevention process as a medium of building trust.
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\nThe purpose of the research is to see how conflict prevention has been carried out in post war Sri Lanka and examine whether it is effective to establish sustainable peace and prevent relapse of conflict or not. The research is based on the case study

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