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| RESEARCH PAPERS - ARCHIVES | |
| Legal
and Constitutional Unit |
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| A comparison of selected proposals relating to interim administration and the devolution of power, 1987 to 2003 and the Executive Summary by Asanga Welikala, Research Associate, Legal & Constitutional Unit. | |
| Paper presented at the Euro Regions Summer University, Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland titled "Sri Lanka: From a Unitary to a Federal State" by Eranthi Premaratne, Researcher, CPA. This paper aims to look at the present federal debate focusing on the available alternatives for a federal Sri Lanka. | |
| A critical case review on the recent Supreme Court determination on the freedom of religion and conscience by Asanga Welikala is available here. |
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| An article on "Democratisation And Conflict Resolution: The Rationale For Federalising Sri Lanka" by Asanga Welikala, Research Associate (Legal and Constitutional Unit) | |
| Parliamentary Committee Systems is a critical appraisal of the Parliamentary Committee system now obtaining in Sri Lanka from a normative and comparative perspective. A shorter version of this paper was first presented by Asanga Welikala, Research Associate (Legal and Constitutional Unit) at a Workshop on The Role and Relevance of Parliament organised by the Centre for Policy Alternatives for first time Parliamentarians, 12th to 15th July 2002, Hotel Triton, Ahungalla. The paper includes annexures containing a summary of recommendations and draft amendments to Standing Orders for the establishment of Oversight Committees. | |
| Draft Freedom of Information Bill prepared in association with the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Editor's Guild of Sri Lanka (EGSL) for consideration by the government. | |
| "Towards Two Nations in One State: The Devolution Project in Sri Lanka". A paper presented by Asanga Welikala, LL.B, Research Associate (Legal and Constitutional Unit), at the EURO Regions Summer University of the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on 21st September, 2002. | |
| Paper by Asanga Welikala, Research Associate (Legal and Constitutional Unit) on the President's power to dissolve Parliament. | |
| A review of National Legislation on Trafficking in Children was carried out by Renuka Senanayake, Shermila Antony and Tina Senanayake of the Legal Unit for the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This research assesses the adequacy of existing legislation, in keeping with the definition of trafficking as expressed in the 'Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children'. This Protocol supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime introduced in 2000. The findings of the study were presented at a Workshop held on 3rd April 2002 titled "Child Trafficking in Sri Lanka : The Legal Challenge". On completion of the study a Prevention of Child Trafficking Act was drafted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives addressing the inadequacies in the existing legal framework. |
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| A study of 'Human Rights Violations of Internally Displaced Persons and Government Policies classified by reference to the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement' prepared by the Legal Unit of CPA and presented at a Seminar on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons - The Sri Lankan Challenge' held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on 12th January 2002. | |
| A Model Freedom of Information Law and the Chapter on Sri Lanka (from the publication 'Global Trends on the Right to Information: A Survey of South Asia') which were discussed, and the Recommendations passed at the International Conference on The Right to Information: Focus on South Asia held at Hotel Galadari Colombo, from 29th to 31st July 2001 organized in collobration with Article 19, The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. | |
| A commentary on the Seminar, Parliamentary Elections 2000 Responses to Irregularities: Anomalies and Contradictions which was held at the BMICH on the 14th of November 2000. | |
| A commentary on the Discussion of the PA-UNP Consensus on the New Constitution for Sri Lanka held on 29th July and 5th August 2000 at the BMICH - By the Conflict & Peace Analysis Programme, Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and a background paper titled "DEVOLUTION: From 13th Amendment to the New Constitution Bill - An Overview of Some Contentious Issues" | |
| The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri Lanka (Sundari de Alwis and Rohan Edrisinha) - Background Paper presented by Rohan Edrisinha at the Seminar The Right to Vote and the Law Relating to Election Petitions. | |
| Conflict
and Peace Analysis Unit |
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| Overview of the Peace Process in Sri Lanka: 2002 - 2003, paper by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Associate, CPA, for conference on Strengthening Cooperation and Security in South Asia-Post 9/11 organised by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), 1-3 July 2003, Dhaka, Bangladesh. | |
| A brief paper highlighting the efforts at peace making in Sri Lanka since 1948, compiled by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Associate, CPA. | |
| A paper on "Media and Conflict in Sri Lanka" by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Associate, CPA, for Consultative Workshop on Managing Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Southern Asia: Role of Education and the Media, organised by the Centre for Policy Alternatives and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), 9-11 May, 2003 | |
| Report of the Conference on "Peace and Development: The Road to Tokyo" held on 26-27th April, 2003, Colombo, Sri Lanka | |
| Report of seminar organised by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), and the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies on ‘Human Rights and the Peace Process’ on 13th February 2003. | |
| Discussion paper on 'Case Studies and Online Advocacy Principles within the context of ICT and Conflict Transformation', written by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Associate, CPA, for Oneworld South Asia Regional Partners Meeting, 3-4 February 2003, Delhi, India. | |
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On 26th November 2002, a team from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera and Udaya Kalupathirana) and the Centre for Policy Alternatives (Udaya Edirimanna and Asanga Welikala) visited Puttalam, Mundel and Madurankuliya on a fact finding mission with regard to the civil disturbances in the area. The report contains the team's findings with regard to the basic facts of the incidents as well as its conclusions. On
2nd and 3rd July 2002, a team from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera
and Udaya Kalupathirana) and the Centre for Policy Alternatives
(Sunanda Deshapriya and Asanga Welikala) visited Valaichchenai
and Batticaloa in the wake of reports of clashes between members
of the Muslim and Tamil communities in the Ottamavadi-Valaichchenai
area. The report contains the team's findings with regard to the basic facts of the incidents as well as its conclusions, both specific to the Valaichchenai clashes, and general implications for the ceasefire agreement. |
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Imagining Solutions: Responding to Key Challenges in Our Region, an essay written for the online essay competition of the Dubai Strategy Forum, 28th - 30th October 2002, by Sanjana Hattotuwa |
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| The
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and the Forum of Federations
organised a series of seminars and dialogue with policymakers,
politicians, the academia and intellectuals on 'Constitutional
Reform and Conflict Resolution: Federal Options', from
1st to 6th September 2002. The delegation included key figures
such as Mr. Robert Rae, former Prime Minister of Ontario, who is
intimately associated with the Canadian experience with federalism
and constitutional reform, Prof. Will Kymlicka, the world renowned
scholar on minority rights, ethnicity and multiculturalism, Mr.
David R. Cameron, Dr. J. Peter Meekison, and Prof. Charles Jeffery.
The
full report of the activities is available here
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| The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and International Media Support (IMS), an international media development organisation based in Copenhagen, organised a two-day seminar on 'Tools for News Management in Conflict Situations', from 13th to 15th June 2002 at Golden Sun Resort, Kudawaskaduwa, Kalutara. A report of the programme of activities can be downloaded here. | |
| The report of the proceedings of a seminar titled "Strengthening the Peace Process: Opportunities and Challenges" organised by the Departments of Surgery and History of the University of Jaffna and the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), held from 18th to 20th May 2002. The seminar was chaired by Prof. S. K. Sitrampalam of the Department of History, University of Jaffna. The panel comprised Dr. Dayalan Ambalavaner of the Department of Surgery, University of Jaffna, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Mr. Rohan Edrisinha and Mr. Sunanda Deshapriya of the CPA, and Professor Nicholas Haysom, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Advisor to former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who was present at the invitation of the organisers. | |
| Background
paper presented by Sanjana Hattotuwa at 'Security,
Independence and Liberty after September 11th: Getting the Balance
Right', a conference organised by the 21st Century Trust
on 12th to 18th May 2002 at Klingenthal Castle, near Strasbourg,
France.
The conference examined the dynamics of the socio-political spectrum, with an examination of the profound implications of 9-11 not only for counter-terrorist strategies of the future, but also for constitutional and legal norms, for policing, and for the interaction between government and society in general. |
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| The
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Colombo, Sri Lanka and the
Institute of Federalism (IF), Fribourg, Switzerland organised the
2nd conference of the Locarno Process from the 15th to 17th April
2002 in Murten, Switzerland on "The Role and Relevance
of Transitional Arrangements in Negotiating a Political Settlement
in Sri Lanka". The conference enabled participants
to reflect on their understanding of the cease-fire agreement and
to what extent strategies of the respective parties and stakeholders
would animate and inform peace processes in the short, medium and
long-term within the framework of a sustainable cease-fire incorporating
human rights norms. The report of the proceedings is available here.
The background paper by Mr. Kethesh Loganathan and Mr. Asanga Welikala
is available here. |
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| On the 26th of March 2002, the CPA organised a closed-door seminar that addressed human rights concerns in Sri Lanka's current process towards peace and a negotiated settlement to the ethnic conflict titled 'Human Rights and Conflict Resolution: Sri Lanka's Dilemma'. The discussion was facilitated by Mr. Ian Martin, former Secretary General of Amnesty International. A report of the seminar is available here. | |
| A Paper titled "The Internet and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka" presented at the Oneworld Regional Conference for South Asian Partners, 18-19th March 2002 in Delhi, India. The paper looks at the impact of Information Communications Technology on Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka. The paper examines the challenges for an effective implementation of an information regime that works towards Conflict Transformation and looks at ICT holistically. | |
| The Centre for Policy Alternatives also organised a closed-door conference on the 25th of February 2002 on the deproscription of the LTTE and related issues titled 'Negotiation Process, Deproscription and Related Issues'. A report of the conference can be downloaded from here. The background paper, written by Kethesh Loganathan, can be accessed here. | |
A
Seminar on "Medical Supplies and Services to Jaffna:
A Critical Evaluation" held on 25th January 2002.
Read the background paper for this seminar by Mr. Dayala Deva,
Former Director, IFRC using the link below:
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| Proceedings
and Background Papers presented at the Conference "TOWARDS
A CONSTITUTIONAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ETHNIC CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA"
which was held at Locarno, Switzerland, organized by the Centre for
Policy Alternatives and the Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland.
The Conference was devoted to exploring possible constitutional arrangements
for meeting Tamil aspirations within a unified Sri Lanka. 1) Mr. Rohan Edrisinha's paper titled 'Meeting Tamil aspirations within a united Lanka: Constitutional Options' 2) Ketheshwaran Loganathan's paper titled 'An Analysis of Thimpu Talks (1985) and the PA-LTTE Talks (1994-95) - Some Lessons on Processes of Negotiations in Armed Conflict' 3) Proceedings of Conference: 11th to 14th June 2001 |
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| Proceedings of the Seminar on Structure and Process of Negotiations: Some Lessons & Reflections which was held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 13th and 27th May 2000. | |
| Polling
Unit - Social Indicator |
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 CORRUPTION
IN SRI LANKA In order to strengthen and empower the civic society curb corruption, Transparency International commissioned a survey within the South Asian region. Social Indicator (SI) was commissioned to conduct the study in Sri Lanka along with the other countries of South Asia - India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. This document is available in Adobe PDF format. Executive Summary English (316 kb), Sinhala (412 kb) Wave
19 Top-Line Results (616 kb)
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| 'A Public Perception Study on Garbage and Related Issues in Sri Lanka' The research paper by Ms Azra Abdul Cader of Social Indicator (Polling Unit) won the Elizabeth H. Nelson Prize for the Best Paper from an Emerging Democracy at the 54th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) hosted in Rome, Italy in September 2001. | |
| Survey on Election Issues (General Election - October 2000) - An opinion poll of 1008 respondents conducted by Social Indicator, from September 1-14, 2000 on the Ethnic Conflict and the General Elections of 2000. |
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| Media
Monitoring Unit |
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| Report of Editors Conference held on 8th September 2003, organised by CPA and the Academy for Educational Development (AED). Participants at this conference were peace process stakeholders, newspaper editors and senior broadcast journalists. | |
Suicide Sensitive Journalism Handbook, written in collaboration with PressWise Trust (UK). A series of workshops on suicide sensitive journalism are slated to be conducted in August 2003. The report of the workshops on Suicide Sensitive Journalism conducted in August 2003 is available here. Click here for statistical information on suicides in Sri Lanka. |
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| The model newsletter from the Jaffna Conflict Sensitive Journalism Field Workshop held in August 2003. | |
| The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) in collaboration with UNICEF held a half-day consultative meeting on 1st August 2003 to discuss the portrayal of children in advertising and the impact of advertising on children in Sri Lanka. Invitees to the meeting brainstormed ideas on how best to balance the market imperatives of advertising and best interests of children in Sri Lanka. The report of this meeting, along with the background papers, is available here. |
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Draft report on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tourism – Survey for Journalists, conducted in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) by Sunanda Deshapriya. Summary of the survey available here. |
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Colombo Declaration on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility was
issued jointly by the Free Media Movement, the Editors Guild
of Sri Lanka and the Newspaper Publishers Society of Sri Lanka
as a reiteratoin of their comittment to further co-operation
and unity in efforts to promote the freedom of expression and
media freedom.
The full text of the declaration is available here. |
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| A study of Media in the North-East of Sri Lanka, conducted by Centre for Policy Alternatives in collaboration with International Media Support, Denmark. This study was conducted from May to June 2003 by Mr. Sunanda Deshapriya and Mr. Sanjana Hattotuwa from the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Colombo, Sri Lanka and is the first comprehensive overview of the media in this war ravaged conflict for over two decades. A summary of the report is available here. |
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| A paper by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Associate, CPA, for Consultative Workshop on Managing Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Southern Asia: Role of Education and the Media, organised by the Centre for Policy Alternatives and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), 9-11 May, 2003 | |
Report of Conflict Sensitive Journalism Workshop held in Muttur from 10th - 12th May 2003, in collaboration with USAID-OTI. This on-going series intends to conduct practical conflict sensitive journalism workshops in areas ethnic and communal violence. The model newsletter from the Muttur Conflict Sensitive Journalism Field Workshop. The document is in adobe PDF format (1.18 mb). For printed copies, contact the CPA office. |
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| Presentation on Media and Suicides by Mr. Sunanda Deshapriya, Head, Media Unit, CPA, at SLFI National Convention on the Prevention of Suicides, 21-22nd May 2003. | |
Suicide Sensitive Journalism Handbook, written in collaboration with PressWise Trust (UK). A series of workshops on suicide sensitive journalism are slated to be conducted in August 2003. The report of the workshops on Suicide Sensitive Journalism conducted in August 2003 is available here. Click here for statistical information on suicides in Sri Lanka. |
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A project jointly implemented by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and the British Council, Sri Lanka, the National Advocacy Campaign for the Right to Information seeks to engender a wider awareness of the importance of information in governance and democracy for target groups and communities across the entire island. The first two workshops in this series were conducted in March 2002. One the 28th of March 2003, a workshop for journalists was conducted in Colombo. On the 31st of March 2003, a similar workshop for journalists was conducted in Vavuniya. Both training sessions were conducted in Sinhala and Tamil. The complete training manual for these two workshops, as well as the core module, can be downloaded from here. Core
Module A report on
the first two workshops is available as an adobe PDF |
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| Paper presented by Sunanda Deshapriya at SAFHR Regional Workshop on 'Sensitising Media Covering Internal and Intra-State Conflicts' held from 29th November to 1st December 2002, Chenai, India. | |
| Article by Sanjana Hattotuwa, written for 14th World Congress of Environmental Journalists, organised by Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum (SLEJF), 27th - 31st October 2002, Colombo, Sri Lanka. | |
| Article by Sanjana Hattotuwa, on Conflict Sensitive Journalism in Sri Lanka, published in the Daily News, 10th September 2002. | |
| Presentation
by Sunanda Deshapriya at 'Building Union Capacity for Human Rights
and Conflict reporting in South Asia', a workshop organized by the
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Friedrich
Ebert Stiftung in Kathmandu, Nepal from 22-24 September 2002. |
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| The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and International Media Support (IMS), an international media development organisation based in Copenhagen, organised a two-day seminar on 'Tools for News Management in Conflict Situations', from 13th to 15th June 2002 at Golden Sun Resort, Kudawaskaduwa, Kalutara. A report of the programme of activities can be downloaded here. | |
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Monitoring of Print Media Coverage of General Election 20th October to 2nd December 2001 Monitoring of Print Media Coverage under new UNF Government - 1st to 7th February 2002
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Election Monitoring Unit - CMEV |
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| The Final Report on the Presidential
Election 1999 |
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