Jehan Perera - Himal Southasian (Page 2)

The peace process and the peace talks

In the resolution of a protracted conflict, it may sometimes be necessary to have visible breakthroughs in order to keep morale high, both of the negotiators themselves and also the

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Oct 2003

Conditional Partnership

For a while, in a disconcerting five month period from April to last month, it seemed that the Sri Lankan peace miracle might be in danger of breaking down. In

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Sep 2003

North and south

There have been apprehensions in Colombo and the rest of the south of Sri Lanka that the peace process, being stuck these past three months, may not last much longer.

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Aug 2003

The Norwegian facilitators' late-June announcement that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was willing to re-enter peace talks with the government, which LTTE chief spokesman Dr Anton Balasingham

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jul 2003

To Tokyo

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) participation in the Tokyo donor conference, scheduled for 9-10 June, remains in doubt as of the end of May. Unless it

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jun 2003

Peace talks on pause

The reasons why the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspended peace talks with the Sri Lankan government on 21 April were the focus of a late April meeting between

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 May 2003

Thanks to the facilitators

When President Chandrika Kumaratunga announced in late 1998 that the Norwegian government would be acting in a third party capacity to help resolve Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, a

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Apr 2003

One year in

The first anniversary celebrations of the ceasefire agreement on 22 February showed how different sections of society are responding to peace. The main event, sponsored by the government, was a

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Mar 2003

Mechanisms of power sharing

The ceasefire in Sri Lanka must be consolidated further over the next year to allow the government and the Tigers the breathing space to distance themselves from earlier entrenched positions. And the ultimate answer lies in federalism - a proposed structure that was once seen as a harbinger of natio

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Feb 2003

TRANSMITTING CONTROVERSY

The Sri Lankan debate on the peace process is a pessimistic one, opined Professor Johan Galtung in mid December at a seminar on peace journalism organised by the Sarvodaya Movement

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jan 2003

ATTITUDINAL SHIFT IN LANKA

The high profile fundraising effort undertaken by the Sri Lankan government in partnership with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has raised many issues. Unsure of the rapprochement with

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Dec 2002

JOINT TASKS

The concept of partnership between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) assumes concrete form in the Joint Task Force charged with overlooking the

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Nov 2002