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As a result, no single community can make decisions unilaterally.

Some special laws necessitate the approval of most of the members from each linguistic group. The Belgian model includes the following elements:Īccording to the Constitution, the number of Dutch and French-speaking ministers in the Central Government must be equal. Belgian leaders amended their constitution four times between 19, resulting in a new model for government administration. The government of Belgium handled the community difference very well. The mutual distrust between the two communities escalated into widespread conflict. The Sri Lankan Tamils began to feel alienated as a result of the government's actions.Ī slew of political organizations had emerged by the 1980s, calling for an independent Tamil Eelam (state) in the country's east and north. In addition, the government used preferential policies to favor Sinhala applicants for university positions and government jobs. The Sinhala leaders sought to secure dominance over the government through their majority.Īn Act was passed in 1956 to recognize Sinhala as the sole official language of the country. We thank the Law and Society Trust, Colombo, our civil society partner for administrative support provided towards the project.Sri Lanka became an independent country in 1948. The essays are the joint work of Dr Kiran Grewal, Ms Kaushalya Ariyarathne and Ms Hasanah Cegu Isadeen. This booklet is produced as part of the ‘Building New Social Imaginaries Project’ funded by the UK AHRC and run by Dr Kiran Grewal, Goldsmiths College University of London and Dr Sivagnanam Jeyasankar, Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies, Eastern University of Sri Lanka. They form the first in a series aimed at reinvigorating critical and engaged debate about both the theory and praxis of progressive politics. These three essays are a humble offering towards this aim. And we need to develop new intellectual and practical tools to help us build the sort of world we all want to live in. We need to cultivate new forms of collective action and new forms of solidarity across division. We need to think differently, creatively and boldly. What has become clear is that we cannot rely on existing frameworks, institutions and elites to come up with the solutions. Democracy is in crisis across the globe and the decolonial project remains as urgent and incomplete as ever. While social struggles for equality, rights and justice have had a positive impact on our world, we face new challenges and many of our old problems remain unsolved. We are living in turbulent political times.

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