CRISE In Brief 2: Four Imperatives for Sustainable Post-war Reconstruction in Sri Lanka

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2009
Country:
Sri Lanka
Document Type:
Briefing
皇冠体育appme:
Governance and Conflict
First published:
1 January 2009

Abstract

Given the nature in which the war came to an end, and the consequences that this generated鈥攊n terms of the vast humanitarian crisis, the heightened international media exposure, and the demoralised and marginalised condition of Sri Lanka鈥檚 Tamil community鈥攖his policy brief advances four key points that are of critical relevance at this juncture for sustainable post-war reconstruction and a successful war-to-peace transition in Sri Lanka:

  1. 皇冠体育app new government must offer a political solution to the conflict.

  2. 皇冠体育appre must be a significant improvement in donor鈥揼overnment relations.

  3. Post-war reconstruction must be open, participatory and transparent, and calibrated towards peacebuilding and ethnic reconciliation.

  4. 皇冠体育app government and donors must focus on rapidly improving living standards, infrastructure and levels of economic development in the northeast to bring them into line with the rest of the country.

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4 pp.

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