TY - BOOK AU - Sahadevan, P. AU - Devotta, Neil TI - Politics of conflict and peace in Sri Lanka SN - 8178271486 U1 - 303.6095493 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manak KW - Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka. KW - Tamil (Indic people) -- Politics and government. KW - Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Politics and government N1 - PART ONE ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND ETHNIC CONFLICT by Neil DeVotta 1. FROM ETHNIC OUTBIDDING TO ETHNIC CONFLICT: The Institutional Bases for Sri Lanka's Separatist War 3 2. ETHNOLINGUISTIC NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA 30 3. SRI LANKA'S POLITICAL DECAY: Comparing the October 2000 and December 2001 Parliamentary Elections 70 4. CIVIL SOCIETY AND ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN SRI LANKA 110 5. CIVIL SOCIETY AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN SRI LANKA: Peacemakers or Parasites? 154 PART TWO WAR AND PEACE PROCESSES by P. Sahadevan 6. STRATEGIES OF ETHNIC WAR AND PEACE 175 7. NEGOTIATING PEACE WITH THE LTTE 232 8. FIGHTING FOR THE TAMIL EELAM: The LTTE's Commitment to Armed Struggle 298 9. INDIA'S CHANGING ROLE IN THE ETHNIC CONFLICT 344 ER -