M.M. Ihjas

M.M. Ihjas
University of Peradeniya | UOP · Department of Political Science

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Introduction
I am particularly interested in topics and issues of contentious politics focusing on identity formation and mobilization in multi-ethnic society setting.
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Displacement in Sri Lanka has resulted from natural and man-made disaters, including the twentry five years civil war and the tsunami of 24 th December 2004,periodic floods and development projects. In post war Sri Lanka, war related internal displacement has become one of crucial issues shaping political and policy debate over the past ten years....
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Identities are socially constructed and they are produced and reproduced in actions and speeches. Similarly, identities are shaped by political and institutional conditions and are used as a basis for group mobilization in search for access to political power, material resources, and control over representation. In Sri Lanka, construction of separa...
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Public administration is a government’s main tool for fulfilling the internal and external needs of the country it serves. The public administrative system which China developed after the Chinese Communist Party came to power was, by the 1980s, insufficient for meeting the needs that arose in conjunction with the country’s rapid economic developmen...
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This article critically recounts the effects of Norway-led international intervention into Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict during the period from 2002-2005.
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Over the recent past, there has been an increasing importance of managing civil conflicts with the involvement of international actors such as individual states, regional and international multilateral organizations (Regan 2002). In Sri Lanka, there had been an unprecedented close international involvement in the fifth peace process right from its...

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