Sri Lanka's Tamil-Sinhalese Ethnic Conflict: Alternative Solutions

Singer, Marshall R.

doi:10.1525/as.1992.32.8.00p01932

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“…16 The promise of small gains with regards to Tamil autonomy, only to be later repealed and harsher policies implemented due to ethnic outbidding was a growing pattern in Sri Lankan politics. 17 Tamil autonomy was seen as a direct threat to Sinhalese national identity. 18 The privileging of Sinhala over Tamil did not just harm Tamils culturally, but also had a huge economic impact as the percentage of Tamil workers employed by the government drastically decreased.…”

Section: Tamils In Sri Lankamentioning

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Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds

O’Driscoll

Costantini

2020

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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This article contributes to the debate on whether federalism leads to ethnic accommodation and is peace-preserving through comparing the methods of ethnic accommodation in federal and unitary states. Rather than focusing on a large dataset, this article offers an in-depth picture of the role the two systems play in ethnic accommodation, offering a more nuanced understanding. The Kurds (Iraq and Turkey) and Tamils (India and Sri Lanka) have been chosen as they form territorial minorities in both federal and unitary states. The article suggests that federalist states offer a degree of acceptance toward political, cultural and economic equality with ethnic minorities. However, federalism may not be the cause of ethnic accommodation; it may be on the one hand the expression of a state willing to concede cultural, political and economic equality to an ethnic minority, or on the other hand induce such behavior. Thus, federalism without recognition of such equality does not guarantee ethnic accommodation.

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Section: Tamils In Sri Lankamentioning

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Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds

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Costantini

2020

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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“…In Sri Lanka, the Tamil minority found itself victimized by democratically enacted legislation designed to confer advantages on the Sinhalese majority at the expense of the Tamil community. Under those circumstances, the legitimacy of Sri Lanka's democracy eroded in the eyes of the Tamil minority, and Tamil youth became increasingly susceptible to the appeals of radicals calling for violent secession from Sri Lanka (see Bush 1990; Singer 1992, 1996; Tambiah and Jayawardena 1992). Not surprisingly, most of the post‐Cold War civil wars that have erupted have been ethnically based conflicts, and many of them have occurred in new democracies that are deeply divided along ethnic lines (Wallensteen and Sollenberg 2000).…”

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Globalization, Democratization, and the Prospects for Civil War in the New Millennium

Mason

2003

Int Studies Review

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“…According to historical anecdotes, the Sinhalese–Tamil conflict dates back to the period of the kingdoms. When the Portuguese invaded Sri Lanka in 1505, the majority of the Tamil people were concentrated in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country and the Sinhalese resided in the rest of the country (DeVotta ; Singer ). The British followed a divide and rule policy under which they favoured the Tamil minority.…”

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Ethnic or Political Fractionalisation? A District Level Analysis of the Provision of Public Goods in Sri Lanka

Cooray¹

2014

Growth and Change

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This study investigates the influence of ethnic and political fractionalisation on the provision of public goods at a district level in Sri Lanka. Evidence shows that political fractionalisation has a greater negative impact on the provision of public goods compared with ethnic fractionalisation. Similarly, political polarisation has a greater negative effect on the provision of public goods compared with ethnic polarisation. The interaction between ethnic and political measures suggests that political fractionalisation (political polarisation) exacerbates the negative effects of ethnic fractionalisation (ethnic polarisation) on the provision of public goods. The ethnolinguistic fractionalisation (ELF) index assumes greater statistical significance under fixed effects estimation suggesting greater within district effects in the relationship between ELF and public good provision. Arusha Cooray is a senior lecturer at

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Sri Lanka's Tamil-Sinhalese Ethnic Conflict: Alternative Solutions

Cited by 5 publications

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Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds

Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds

Globalization, Democratization, and the Prospects for Civil War in the New Millennium

Ethnic or Political Fractionalisation? A District Level Analysis of the Provision of Public Goods in Sri Lanka

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