Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Election – OpEd
Sri Lanka’s President Dissanayake made a smart decision to dissolve parliament after winning the presidential election on September 21. The
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Author: Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan
Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan is a Professor of Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University, Maryland. Formerly, he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Articles by Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan :
Sri Lanka Installs A Minority President – OpEd
Sri Lanka successfully conducted the election to choose its 9th executive president on September 21. This was one of the
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Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election: Dilemmas Of The Voter – Analysis
A diagram of the number of presidential candidates who contested the elections since 1982 in Sri Lanka would look like
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A Common Tamil Candidate In Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election – OpEd
Ever since the election year dawned on Sri Lanka, doubts about whether the election would take place persisted. Even some
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Sri Lanka’s Marxist JVP In The Presidential Election – OpEd
According to the Sri Lankan Constitution, the presidential election should be held in September/October 2024. Some people believed, and some
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Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict: From Reconciliation To Reescalation – Analysis
The national discourse in Sri Lanka moved from conflict termination to reconciliation with the end of the war in 2009.
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Modern Ramsethu: An Unlikely Bridge To Sri Lanka – Analysis
One of the highlights of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s India visit last month was the agreement “to establish land connectivity between
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Sri Lanka’s Presidential Candidates Not Monolithic – Book Review
My new book, Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka: Presidential Elections, Manipulation, and Democracy, was published by Routledge (London) in July
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Politics Of Sri Lanka’s IMF Bailout: An Initial Assessment – OpEd
Sri Lanka’s long-awaited International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout finally came through. On March 20, 2023, the IMF approved three billion
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Sri Lanka’s Election Conundrum: System Change And Local Government Election – OpEd
Sri Lanka has an election problem. In 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a political novice with no elected office experience, contested to
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