Sri Lanka's 14 months of ceasefire have brought monumental changes in the lives of Tamils in the north and east. Challenges remain - both at the political level as well as at ground-level reality - but the foundation for a sustainable peace on the island has been laid. Some impressions of what Jaffa
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