Sri Lankan Terrorism

Voorde, Cécile Van de

doi:10.1201/b16254-18

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“…The Sri Lankan military defeated the LTTE in 2009. Between 1983 and 2009, more than 80,000 were killed in the armed struggle (Kapferer 1988; Spencer 1990; Van de Voorde 2005; Wayland 2004; Weiss 2011).…”

Section: Case Study: Sinhalese Nationalist Leaders Versus Tamil Tigersmentioning

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Leader Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Terrorist Violence

Choi

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Whether or not nationalism fuels terrorist violence by ethnic groups is an important yet underexplored research question. This study offers a theoretical argument, empirical analysis and a case study. When political leaders such as presidents and prime ministers use nationalism to shore up legitimacy, they threaten the existence of disfavored ethnic groups. In turn, those groups are more likely to respond with terrorist attacks. The author tests this argument using a sample of 766 ethnic groups across 163 countries from 1970 to 2009. The multilevel mixed-effects negative binomial regression results provide evidence that leader nationalism is a significant driver of ethnic terrorism. The detrimental effect of nationalism remains the same after using a generalized method of moments method to account for possible reverse causality. A case study of Sinhalese nationalist leaders versus Tamil Tigers also supports the nationalism and terrorism nexus.

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Section: Case Study: Sinhalese Nationalist Leaders Versus Tamil Tigersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leader Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Terrorist Violence

Choi

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…18 Statist geopolitical paradigms have since bolstered the state's unitary structure, demonstrated by the support offered to the Sri Lankan state by major world powers in its battle against so-called 'separatist terrorists'. 19 As Anghie argues in his examination of imperialism, colonialism and international law, the establishment of an international system of sovereign states meant that a specific set of cultural practices were included to the exclusion of others, a process of creating order amongst political entities that drew on ideas of the civilised European and uncivilised non-European world. 20 Despite the claims of the nation state to a concept of sovereignty that privileges a particular political relationship and concept of power, sovereignty is a dynamic concept.…”

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Inscribing the victor’s land: nationalistic authorship in Sri Lanka’s post-war Northeast

Seoighe

2016

Conflict, Security & Development

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Notes on ContributorRachel Seoighe is a criminologist and socio-legal scholar with a particular interest in political agency and resistance, post-colonial thought, nationalisms, the 'war on terror', Sri Lankan politics and Tamil rights. AbstractThis article examines the nationalistic authorship of space in Sri Lanka's post-conflict Northeast as part of the state's nation-building strategy and as a continuation of a postcolonial process of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalistic revival. Exploring issues of historiography, conflict resolution, physical vehicles of ideology and collective memory, the article demonstrates how land policies, development and the tourism industry in a post-conflict context can go hand-in-hand with dispossession, militarisation and the humiliation of a 'defeated' minority community.

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Sri Lankan Terrorism

Cited by 2 publications

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Leader Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Terrorist Violence

Leader Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Terrorist Violence

Inscribing the victor’s land: nationalistic authorship in Sri Lanka’s post-war Northeast

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