Mark Salter is an independent consultant who was formerly senior programme officer at the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). He is the is author of To End A Civil War: Norway’s Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka (Hurst, 2015). He blogs at http://www.marksalter.org/
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka and the politics of justice
Truth and reconciliation is a project which inevitably needs to balance short term politics against long term...
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Published in: HomeIs the US backtracking on Sri Lanka's post-war accountability process?
Has the US actually changed its commitment to see international involvement in the post-war reconciliation process?...
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Published in: HomeRoadmap to reconciliation: 4 post-election challenges for Sri Lanka
Muscular Sinhalese nationalism was defeated at the polls in Sri Lanka. The dismantling of the security state,...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy for all? Minority rights and democratisation
The challenge of accommodating and promoting the rights of ethnic, religious and other minorities tends to emerge...