Vanni farmers in wartimes : a sage of human security in Sri Lanka

Author's Preface
knowledgments
Acronyms
The explanation for the Tamil Terms used

Chapters
1. Human Security versus National Security?
The Dichotomy of Security Discourse
The Survival and Livelihood Strategies
2. The Vanni, the War, and the Farmers
Vanni and Vavuniya
The Vanni villages
Poovarasankulam
KovilKunchukulam Resource Ranking
3. Surviving Vanni Farmers Living their Life
Administration and Political Issues
Dependency Rate
Displacement
Institutional Intervention
Livelihood and Economic Issues
Farmers in the Wartimes
Conceptual Model
Farmers' Survival Strategies
Armed Conflict Strategies versus Farmers'
Survival Strategies
Farmers' Ranking their Problems
4. Residing in Houses
Introduction
Housing
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Conclusion

5. Owning and Utilizing Lands
Introduction
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
6. Sustaining Farming Activities
Introduction
Farming Activities
Seasonal Calendars for Some Highland Crops Cultivation
Farming Activities
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Agricultural Implements
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques Conclusion
7. Irrigating Lands
Introduction
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
8. Rearing Livestock and Fishing Inland
Rearing Livestock Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Inland Fishing
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
9. Finding Food and Drinking Water
Introduction
Food Security
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Drinking Water Facilities
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Conclusion
10. Securing Health, Education, Credit, Additional Income, and Durables
Health security Health Impacts
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Educational Security
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Managing Credit, Additional Income and Durables
Credit
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Other Sources of Income
Problems
Coping Strategies
Durables
Problems
Coping Strategies
Coping Techniques
Conclusion
11. Internalizing and Intervening
Human security, Human rights, and
Armed Conflict Internalizing
Distinct Characteristics Universal Characteristics
Intervening
Public Participation for Sustainable
Human Security
Conclusion

Post-script
References

This book narrates you a sad but survival story of the farmers in the Vanni region of Sri Lanka. It delves deep into the livelihood and survival of the farmers of two typical villages. One in “the cleared areas” and the other in “un-cleared areas” during the intensive conflict period from 1990 to 2004 and resurrects their life before the intensive conflict period (before 1990) in comparison.

It is not a hundred percent wartime story as you are used to in watching a war film or reading a wartime story. It is not about the war between the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE. It is not about the victims of the war. It is about, figuratively speaking, 'the survivors of the war,' 'the real heroes of the war,' that is, the people of Vanni. It exposes their survival amidst vulnerability, marginalization, dispossession, accumulation and unsustainability caused by the conflict.