Centre for Policy Alternatives on 21 February, 2013 We were embroiled in a devastating war for thirty long years. Our habit of not honouring the Tamil Language deems to be the cause for such war. At the beginning , due to the suppression of demands, demonstrations and agitations, the resolving of the problem was assigned to gun powder. Through this, we have destroyed […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 21 February, 2013 After my schooling in Jaffna and Colombo and my under graduate studies in Colombo, I was recruited to the Ceylon Civil Service in April 1959, not long after Sinhala was made the only Official Language. I retired in April 1995, a few years after the passage of the 13th and 16th Ammendments to the Constitution, […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 18 January, 2013 18 January 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is pleased to announce the launch of a website complementing the print edition of The Sri Lankan Republic at 40: Reflections on Constitutional History, Theory and Practice, first published in December 2012. The website contains the complete contents of the two volume publication […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 9 January, 2013 The Sri Lankan Republic at 40: Reflections on Constitutional History, Theory and Practice, a collection of scholarly essays edited by Asanga Welikala, Senior Researcher, Legal & Constitution Unit was launched at the 80 Club, 25, Independence Avenue, Colombo 07, on 21st December 2012. CPA’s latest publication, in association with the F riedrich Naumann Stiftung für die […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 3 January, 2013 Photos from the launch of The Sri Lankan Republic at 40: Reflections on Constitutional History, Theory and Practice, a collection of scholarly essays edited by Asanga Welikala, Senior Researcher, Legal & Constitution Unit. The book was launched at the 80 Club, 25, Independence Avenue, Colombo 07, on 21st December 2012. CPA’s latest publication, in association […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 1 December, 2012 Access the dedicated site for the book here. ### It represents an experiment with publishing scholarly thinking on issues of constitutional significance in the public interest, which I hope will be successful in informing the way we approach, and think critically about, the great political issues of the day in our country. These debates are […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 16 October, 2012 Recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, in Sinhala and Tamil.