Author: Centre for Policy Alternatives

A militant diplomacy

Article written by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Researcher, CPA published in The Sunday Leader, 14 June 2009. A militant diplomacy

Best practices and potential for improved information flows in media and civil society

This report, commissioned by HIVOS in November 2008, looks at the conditions favourable to and severely vitiating the potential of information flows in support of peace, human rights and democratic governance within and between civil society and mainstream media in Sri Lanka. The report ends with three key annexes that critically analyse the media landscape […]

The state of Emergency in peacetime

Article written by Asanga Welikala, Senior Researcher, CPA published in The Sunday Leader, 7 June 2009. The state of Emergency in peacetimeThe state of Emergency in peacetime

The rendezvous of victory

Article written by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Researcher, CPA published in The Sunday Leader, 7 June 2009. The rendezvous of victory

On Accountability

Article written by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Researcher, CPA published in The Sunday Leader, 31 May 2009.

Children in Advertising in Sri Lanka – A Media Study

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) in collaboration with UNICEF organised a half-day consultative meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Children and Advertising in Sri Lanka on 1st August 2003. This consultative meeting was held to examine the complex interaction of relations between advertising, media and children – a topic on which there was very […]

CPA receives threatening letter

CPA received this letter on 1st June 2009 via the post. The scanned Sinhala original is available as a PDF to download, along with the English translation. ### NOTICE TO THE TRAITORS (DESHADROHIS) The wretched war that lasted throughout 30 years has now come to an end. Blood thirsty wicked terrorists were finished from this country. […]