The intra-group dimensions of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka : learning to read between the lines

By: Bush, Kenneth DMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Description: xix, 265 p. : illustrations, mapISBN: 0333714563 ; 9780333714560Subject(s): Tamil (Indic people) -- Sri Lanka -- Politics and government | Ethnic relations | Ethnic clashes - Sri LankaDDC classification: 323.3
Contents:
Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Beyond Billiard Ball Analysis -- 2. Learning to Read between the Lines -- 3. An Overview of Sri Lankan Politics -- Pt. II. Critical Junctures -- 4. Critical Juncture I: 1948 Independence and the Disenfranchisement of the plantation Tamils -- 5. Critical Juncture II: 1956 Election and the Premiership of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike -- 6. Critical Juncture III: 1971 JVP Insurrection and 1987 JVP Resurgence -- 7. Critical Juncture IV: 1983 Riots -- 8. Critical Juncture V: 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement -- 9. Critical Juncture VI: February 2002 Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) -- Pt. III. Conclusion -- 10. Fitting the Pieces Together.
Summary: "With an empirical focus on Sri Lanka, this book advances our understanding of violent and nonviolent forms of ethnic conflicts by challenging 'billiard ball analyses' which cast ethnic groups as relatively unified entities that interact in the 'inter-group arena'. The book illustrates that if conflict management efforts do not explicitly incorporate inter- and intra-group considerations, then they are doomed to be sub-optimal at best, and conflict-inducing at worst."--BOOK JACKET.
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Pt. I. Introduction --
1. Beyond Billiard Ball Analysis --
2. Learning to Read between the Lines --
3. An Overview of Sri Lankan Politics --
Pt. II. Critical Junctures --
4. Critical Juncture I: 1948 Independence and the Disenfranchisement of the plantation Tamils --
5. Critical Juncture II: 1956 Election and the Premiership of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike --
6. Critical Juncture III: 1971 JVP Insurrection and 1987 JVP Resurgence --
7. Critical Juncture IV: 1983 Riots --
8. Critical Juncture V: 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement --
9. Critical Juncture VI: February 2002 Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) --
Pt. III. Conclusion --
10. Fitting the Pieces Together.

"With an empirical focus on Sri Lanka, this book advances our understanding of violent and nonviolent forms of ethnic conflicts by challenging 'billiard ball analyses' which cast ethnic groups as relatively unified entities that interact in the 'inter-group arena'. The book illustrates that if conflict management efforts do not explicitly incorporate inter- and intra-group considerations, then they are doomed to be sub-optimal at best, and conflict-inducing at worst."--BOOK JACKET.

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