Norwegian attempts to bring the festered conflict in Sri Lanka to an end were futile. An evaluation of the Norwegian peacebuilding efforts concludes that Norway should have pulled out in 2006.

Tamilene på Sri Lanka er et traumatisert og splittet folk med begrenset innflytelse over egen fremtid.

Tamilene på Sri Lanka er et traumatisert og splittet folk med begrenset inn­flytelse over egen fremtid. Det er litt over fire ...

This evaluation assesses Norway’s peace efforts in Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2009. It tells the story of Norway’s engagement, assesses ...

Prof. S.K. Sitrampalam, Jaffna and Erik Solheim special peace envoy to Sri Lanka. The peace process in Sri Lanka is currently stuck. The tsunami put the peace process on hold. How can the peace process be put back on track? What new challenges and opportunities face the reconstruction and the peace process in Sri Lanka?

For several years, Norway was involved in efforts to contribute to a peaceful solution to the conflict in Sri Lanka. After the military victory ...

Ingen viktige fredsavtaler er inngått i verden de siste åtte årene. De fleste «intern-konflikter» er ikke det de gir seg ut for å være. De er deler av internasjonale konfliktsystemer der eksterne aktører spiller helt sentrale roller, skriver Gunnar M. Sørbø i en utenriksanalyse i Morgenbladet.

Ingen viktige fredsavtaler er inngått i verden de siste åtte årene. For ti år siden, samme år som Irak ble ...

Buddhismens etisk bærende prinsipp om ikkevold er ingen garantist for et tolerant og fredelig sinnelag. Buddhismen har også sine ...

The long civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009. The way the war was fought, and particularly the way it ended, raises serious questions about the kind of peace which now prevails. It also raises questions about the failure of international efforts to mediate the conflict at earlier points.

In January CMI produced a brief report on aid and economic policy issues in Sri Lanka, commissioned by NORAD. The report is part of the agreement ...

The article gives an assessment of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, primarily of the mission's limits and potentials with regards to human ...

Aid has been successful when it is no longer needed, but we all too often see how aid breeds dependency, and how both donors and recipients ...

This Working Paper describes the economic growth rate and patterns in Sri Lanka during the 1990s, showing the interrelationship between uneven ...

In countries with an ongoing violent conflict aid donors are confronted by four sets of issues: How the volume and orientation of the program ...

The Norwegian Minister for International Development will give the Chr. Michelsen Lecture 2006 at the CMI Annual Meeting 15 March. Solheim was the chief Norwegian peace envoy to Sri Lanka before he became a Minister last year. He has continued his commitment to the peaceprocess in Sri Lanka in his new position. Now, he is also responsible for following up Norway's commitments to the peace process in Sudan.

This is a study of instituions in Sri Lanka having received development assistance from Japanese and Nordic donors. The main research questions ...

NORAD terminated in 2000 its funding for HIRDEP, which has been the longest lasting IRDP within Norwegian aid. The project was evaluated in ...

The conference on the Sri Lankan situation and the role of the international community was arranged by CMI, in cooperation with the All Parties ...

Countries in violent conflict and aid strategies: The case of Sri Lanka Arve Ofstad World Developme