<\/a>By Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi
\nVisiting Lecturer, The University of Colombo<\/span><\/p>\n

There is speculation and argument about the concept of \u2018post-conflict\u2019 by political gurus. Some assume that it is the \u2018end of conflict\u2019 per se, while others claim that it the \u2018end of the clash arms\u2019, hence they prefer to call it a \u2018post-war\u2019 scenario and not necessarily a \u2018post conflict predicament\u2019, because for them conflict continues. However, it must be noted that at least this \u2018post-conflict\u2019 in the case of Sri Lanka is now void of wanton violence and calculated killings. This becomes the raison d\u2019\u00eatre for the development of democratic institutions in this island nation and to reduce political apathy. Sri Lanka\u2019s thirty-year conflict, once regarded as the most calcified, unwinnable battle (for either<\/span>
\nside) in South Asia, between the government forces and the Tamil Tigers is now no longer <\/span>an issue to be resolved. No democracy could have gone on with such a magnitude of violence and anarchy with a singlenarrative political ideology coupled alongside a full blown separatist agenda. What Sri Lanka as a sovereign state went through isn\u2019t comparable with any of South\u00a0 Asia\u2019s other political upheavals. The Tamil Tiger-led destruction of all democratic institutions and their own infrastructures, which included the selective process of killing in the Northern and Eastern provinces of the island, was politically callous, socially untenable and economically unsustainable. The counter-insurgency method further exacerbated the situation taking its toll on the entire social fabric.<\/a><\/p>\n

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