Nadine Vanniasinkam

Research Driven Dialogs (RDDs) are a method for collective sense-making and collaborative reflection on research findings by a range of stakeholders hoping to better understand and address a complex problem. Research findings are opened up through a process of dialog; implications for practice and action are co-designed by participants in ways that...

On a worldwide scale, land use and land cover changes (LULCC) is a major driver of global change and biodiversity erosion. This study aims to monitor at the scale of Sri Lanka, LULCC and vegetation dynamics, to identify the main changes and their drivers. It places emphasis on multiscale geospatial monitoring with satellite data but also mobilises...

In the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009), the main strategy pursued by the state to drive economic recovery and growth in the war- torn northern and eastern regions of the country was infrastructure development. While this was accompanied by livelihood development programmes, centred on micro-credit and micro-enterprise to address pove...

This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. Transference entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skil...

Every southwest monsoon, men and women from the west coast fishing villages migrate to east coast villages, leaving their homes and their children and their school-age children behind with kin. This monograph is an exploration of the motivations and aspirations that drive an internal process of seasonal fisheries migration. It focusses on the gende...

Households in fishing communities on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka engage in internal seasonal migration (coastal and coast to coast) to pursue small-scale fishing and fisheries-based livelihoods. The chapter focuses on the material, relational, and subjective factors underlying the households’ gendered decision-making, using a social well-...

The depletion of coastal fish resources and a marked increase in fishing households on the east coast of Sri Lanka have negatively affected west coast fishing communities’ seasonal migration to fish off the northeast and east coasts during the southwest monsoon in Asia. East coast communities whose livelihoods were destroyed by civil war claim the...

The study draws from qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with women and men from the districts of Mannar, Jaffna, Ampara, and Matara in Sri Lanka and unpacks the intersecting domains of contestation among Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists including the agents and enabling conditions that fuel conflict. It adopts a localised...

Ethno-religious violence has a long history in Sri Lanka dating far back as 1883. The Muslims of Sri Lanka have been victims of sporadic attacks by the Sinhalese and Tamil majorities since the early 1900s with the most recent attack being in 2014. While the recent turn towards violence against the Muslim community in Sri Lanka can be attributed to...