eprintid: 4125
rev_number: 26
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/41/25
datestamp: 2003-01-04 13:55:40
lastmod: 2016-01-05 00:59:58
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:10:03
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bigdon, Christine
title: Decentralization, Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
divisions: i-999904
keywords: Sri Lanka , Ethnic Conflict , Federalism , Devolution
cterms_swd: Sri Lanka
cterms_swd: Minderheitenfrage
cterms_swd: Föderalismus
cterms_swd: Dezentralisation
abstract: Since the 1990s ethnic violence within states has become much more common than interstate violence and tends to be harder to stop, leading to the question, how states can avoid ethnic violence and best accommodate multiple ethnicities within their boundaries. The worldwide increase of inner-state civil wars or complex emergencies has set peace and conflict studies high on the agenda of development and foreign policy debate. A central question in the theoretical debate is the consolidation and arrangements of democratic systems and institutions in ethnically heterogeneous societies, to prevent and resolve violent conflicts. In this recent debate there is still a lack of empirical research, analysing the opportunities and obstacles of conflict resolving political structures, processes and institutions in more depth. This paper therefore aims to contribute to the recent debate on conflict preventive/transforming arrangements of democratic systems by discussing proposals on federal restructuring and devolution of the political system in Sri Lanka as well as by looking into the realities of recognition of minorities at local level.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2003
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00004125
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 14
ppn_swb: 1643784889
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-41254
language: eng
bibsort: BIGDONCHRIDECENTRALI2003
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
volume: 14
issn: 1617-5069
citation:   Bigdon, Christine  (2003) Decentralization, Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/4125/1/hpsacp14.pdf