Author: CPA Comms Officer

Letter to the Honourable Minister of Justice

Following the Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the National People’s Power (NPP) has been entrusted with a significant mandate by the people of Sri Lanka, presenting you with the opportunity to drive key reforms to restore public trust, transparent governance, justice, and accountability. On behalf of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), I am writing to […]

An Open Letter to the President on the Urgent Need for Governance Reforms, Action gainst Corruption and the Lack of Accountability

1st November 2024 Centre for Policy Alternatives (Guarantee) Limited 6/5, Layards Road, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, Presidential Secretariat, Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Sri Lanka has witnessed a busy few weeks since the Presidential election held in September 2024 and in the lead up to the parliamentary election […]

CPA Statement on the death of Professor Kumar David

16 October 2024, Colombo: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) notes with deep sadness the passing at the age of 83 of Professor A. Kumar David – or as he was wont to describe himself, ‘the original AKD’. Kumar was a brilliant scholar, an accomplished academic, tireless newspaper columnist, imaginative Marxist public intellectual, and a […]

Summary of Policy Proposals by Candidates for the 2024 Presidential Election

Sri Lanka’s presidential election is scheduled for Saturday, 21 September 2024. In anticipation of the election, many of the candidates have published manifestos detailing their visions for Sri Lanka. In the interest of comparing these visions for the country, the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has prepared this document which categorises the policy proposals of […]

Civil Society Appeal on the Abolition of the Executive Presidency

We the undersigned call upon all candidates contesting the forthcoming 2024 presidential election to firmly and publicly commit to the abolition of the executive presidential system within the first year of the next Parliament. The experience of 46 years of the operation of the 1978 Constitution shows that the executive presidential system has not delivered […]

The Intersectional Trends of Land Conflicts in Sri Lanka

15 years after the end of the Civil War, Sri Lanka continues to experience deep ethnic divisions and has failed to address the root causes of the conflict that halt moving to a post-conflict society. Unfortunately, the decades-long problem of land has continued in the post-war setting, and new mechanisms of State intervention are creating […]

The Confidence in Democratic Governance Index- 6

This report is prepared by Social Indicator (SI), the survey research arm of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), on the findings of the ‘Confidence in Democratic Governance Index’ survey (Wave 6). This island-wide survey captures the public perception/opinion on the current situation of the country, in terms of the legitimacy and accountability of the […]