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The Road Map Programme - A joint initiative of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies, Sri Lanka Office

 

A full report of activites for 2004 is available here

A full report of activites for 2002 is available here

A full report of activites for 2001 is available here

 

 

 

CONFLICT AND PEACE ANALYSIS UNIT


The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) set-up the Peace and Conflict Analysis Unit in 1999 as a means of further developing CPA's engagement in the sphere of Conflict Transformation.

The focus of the Conflict & Peace Analysis Unit is the protracted ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka: its genesis, manifestations, present trends and tendencies and future trajectory. The unit also seeks to intervene in processes relating to national reconciliation, national reconstruction and the restitution of peace with justice in Sri Lanka. Lessons are drawn, wherever comparable and relevant, from situations of conflict formation and conflict transformation in the international sphere.


The activities of this unit include:

  • Conducting seminars and symposiums related to multi-level and multi-track peace processes, and current and comparative situations on conflict and peace.

  • Peace advocacy and outreach activities with media, local civic organizations and institutions.

  • Liaising with national and international organisations engaged in facilitating / mediating a negotiated settlement to the ethnic conflict.
  • Conducting research on peace related issues with a view to informing policy makers and the general public in order to increase public debate.


The Conflict and Peace Analysis Unit, which was headed by the late Mr. Ketheshwaran (Kethesh) Loganathan, works closely with the Legal and Constitutional Reforms Unit and the Peace Confidence Index Study of the Social Indicator Unit.

Current Projects


Monitoring the Factors Affecting the Peace Process

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has been engaged in a project "Monitoring the Factors Affecting the Peace Process" to assess the current status of the peace process. This project involves 4 of CPA's units and the Point Pedro Institute for Development, which looks at economics issues. Looking at developments within a quarterly period, this project produces reports for the corresponding periods.

A number of key factors, that impact the peace process, have been monitored to observe trends of change or stasis. The factors have been grouped into a series of clusters which reflect critical dimensions of the peace process. The trends will suggest the level of change in each cluster and in sum will indicate how the peace process and its environment have been strengthened or weakened. Trends observed in each of the various clusters and factors are carried in the Cluster Report while the Synthesis Report analyses change and statsis in the clusters in sum. These documents could be downloaded in PDF format.

First Quarterly February - April 2005 Cluster Report / Synthesis Report
Second Quarterly May - July 2005 Cluster Report / Synthesis Report
Third Quarterly August- October 2005 Cluster Report / Synthesis Report

Second Quarterly May - July 2006 Cluster Report / Synthesis Report

Third Quarterly August- October 2006 Cluster Report / Synthesis Report

War, Peace and Governance

War, Peace and Governance in Sri Lanka Overview and Trends 2006 - an annual report of key trends affecting the peace process - January 2007.

Civil Society and Ethnic Violence

A two-year Research Project with the University of Michigan titled: “Can Civil Society Moderate Ethnic Conflict: The Sri Lankan Case”. This project is part of a multi-country comparative study involving Nigeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

Peace Confidence Index (PCI)

While many studies have been conducted on various aspects of this conflict, none have attempted to capture the changes in public perception over a period of time. The lack of such a study was identified as a significant void by Social Indicator (SI), the social research unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA). The Peace Confidence Index study (PCI) seeks to fill this lacuna. The study which was bi-monthly will now be conducted quarterly to gauge the impact of local and international political developments on public attitudes towards the peace process. In this regard, the Peace & Conflict Analysis Unit works closely with Social Indicator.

You can download the executive summary of each wave using the links below. You can also go to the web page of Social Indicator by clicking here.

 

Peace Support Group Statements


The Peace Support Group is a group convened by leading democracy, human rights and civil society activists and intellectuals in support of the peace process. The work of the PSG includes issuing of statements to the trilingual media on topics of relevance to the peace process, the placing of advertisements on subjects on immediate importance, the preparation of documents for lobbying with opinion and decision makers and outreach activities with grass roots peace organisation.

You can read all the Peace Support Group Statements by clicking here.

You can also read statements by CPA and other civil society organizations by clicking here.

Contact details of unit core staff

  • Ms. Sriyanie Wijesundara, Programme Coordinator (sriyanie@cpalanka.org)

  • Mr. Mirak Raheem, Senior Researcher (mirak@cpalanka.org)

  • Dr. Devanesan Nesiah, Consultant (nesiah@cpalanka.org)

  • Ms. Thenmozhy Kugamourthy, Reseach Assistant (thenmozhy@cpalanka.org)
  • Mr. Niranjan Dias Bandaranayake, Researcher
(niranjan@cpalanka.org)