03/05/2011
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The Island
By Ahilan Kadirgamar
Over the last week, I participated in two discussions on Sri Lanka in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard University, as an activist with the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum, I was on a panel discussion with Ambassador Palitha Kohona and Prof. Vasuki Nesiah, moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former Under-Secretary under the Bush Administration and now on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government. At the other discussion, I spoke at length to a number of graduate students at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Both events attracted individuals who had some interest in Sri Lanka, and while the Harvard event was politically charged with respect to recent events, the Fletcher discussion provided some room to delve into deeper historical and political questions about Sri Lanka’s place in the international order and the manner in which global political economy has shaped our state and society.
02/26/2011
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Sri Lanka Democracy Forum
OPENS PDF: The entire Issue No 2, February 2011 can be downloaded from the following
link as a pdf file from the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum website.
02/07/2011
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Asia Society
Sri Lanka on Feb. 4 celebrated 63 years of independence and “worryingly, in his Independence Day speech, President Rajapaksa did not address the problems of minorities nor political reconciliation with a constitutional settlement. The thrust of his message focused on economic development and the need for ‘discipline’ in society to achieve development,” says Asia Society Associate Fellow Ahilan Kadirgamar.