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About Alan Keenan

Alan Keenan is a visiting scholar at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania.

Articles by Alan Keenan

Sunday 14th May

Sri Lanka: between peace and war

Alan Keenan, 14 May 2006

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.

Thursday 17th November

Sri Lanka's election choice

Alan Keenan, 17 November 2005

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.

The presidential election today, 17 November 2005, to replace Chandrika Kumaratunga as Sri Lanka’s powerful executive president may prove a turning-point in the long, tortured post-colonial history of this war-torn island off the southern tip of India.