by polity.lk | Jun 4, 2025 | Politics
‘Crop Top Terrorism’ and the Security State in Sri Lanka Themal Ellawala The evening of 28 February 2025. A friend and I left his house in Mount Lavinia to board a waiting PickMe three-wheeler. As I stepped out, I noticed a group of five uniformed army and police...
by polity.lk | May 20, 2025 | Politics
Horu versus Boru: The politics of the 2025 local government elections in Sri Lanka Harindra B. Dassanayake and Rajni Gamage In the 2025 May local government (LG) election, the National People’s Power (NPP) secured a nominal majority in 265 out of 339 LG bodies,...
by polity.lk | May 14, 2025 | Politics
System Stability not Change: The NPP abandons populism for liberal democracy Pradeep Peiris Judging by its record over the past six months, the National People’s Power (NPP) government arguably stands as one of the more committed liberal democratic regimes in Sri...
by polity.lk | Apr 29, 2025 | Politics
Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka. Bart Klem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 Sakuntala Kadirgamar War and peace have remained unsettled business in Sri Lanka. Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil...
by polity.lk | Apr 1, 2025 | Politics
The Revival of the JVP after 1989 Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri What follows is a brief account of the history of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) from 1990 to the election victory of the JVP-led broader front, the National People’s Power (NPP) in 2024.[1] Given the fact...
by polity.lk | Feb 25, 2025 | Politics
The Ritual Sacrifice of Richard de Zoysa: “Not really one of us, hence one of them” Dhanuka Bandara In Violence and the Sacred, René Girard (1979) understands ritual sacrifice as a means of stalling the cycle of vengeance. What is sacrificed—person or otherwise—is not...
