Alan Keenan is a visiting scholar at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003).

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The return to war in Sri Lanka makes it essential that the international community helps create a new peace process from the ashes of the old, writes Alan Keenan.

The impact of two decades of civil war on the human rights of its people makes Sri Lanka’s presidential election vital for the health of democracy in the south Asian island, says Alan Keenan.