The actual risk to the ceasefire is not violence per se, but the continuing non implementation of crucial aspects of the Agreement resulting in declining benefits from it.
Four years after 9/11, Americans have managed to show themselves, their friends and most of all their enemies the limits of American power.
Are we strangling the peace process and thereby strangling the economy as well?
Self-interest is the name of the game and both Rajapakse’s and the JVP’s are served by the arrangement that has been made.
The irony of Lakshman Kadirgamar is that despite his famous assertion that he was not a tribalist, his effectiveness in justifying and rationalising Tamil civilian suffering depended critically on his ethnicity.
The willingness of governing bodies to strive for the welfare of those in their care, especially in the wake of a catastrophe, is a critical measure of their moral authority.
Investors who expect their preferred political outcome to be a done deal may be underestimating the power of unabashed populism
To deny militants political space and to try and isolate and demonize them and disempower their discourse is the wrong way to resolve the conflicts they are engaged in.
Whilst media attention is focused upon the movement of the settlements in the Gaza strip, there no attention is being paid to the expansions of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
It is indeed a pity that a natural calamity that should have brought the two nations closer, has, on the contrary, driven a wider cleavage between them.