Abstract
For the past three decades Sri Lanka was stalemated between governments that were
not prepared to devolve power to the Tamil majority provinces and a Tamil militant
movement that wanted a separate country. In February 2002, the Sri Lankan
government and LTTE signed a ceasefire agreement under Norwegian government
auspices that appeared to offer the real prospect of a final end to violence as a means of
conflict resolution. The ceasefire between the government and the LTTE held for nearly
four years despite significant problems affecting the peace process, problems that led to
the LTTE’s withdrawal from the peace talks. However, the ceasefire collapsed in early
2006 with a series of ambushes of government soldiers by the LTTE, eventually leading
to counter measures and counter attacks by the forces of the government, measures in
which the government wrested back control of territory placed under the control of the
LTTE by the terms agreed upon by the Ceasefire Agreement. Today Sri Lanka is a
country that continues to be deeply divided on lines of ethnicity, religion and politics.
Horizontal inequalities, defined as severe inequalities in economic and political
resources between culturally defined groups, were undoubtedly a contributing factor for
the perpetuation of Sri Lanka’s long-running conflict. No sooner it won the war, the
government asserted economic development to be the main engine of reconciliation.
Jehan Perera. (2016) THE TORTUOUS PATH OF ACCOUNTABILITY TO ENSURE POST-WAR RECONCILIATION—THE CASE OF SRI LANKA , Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 55, issue 1.
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