Asia Insights : Sri Lanka
Facts and background
Population
: 19.4 mill. (2004)
Surface area : 65.610 sq. km.
Population per sq. km : 296
Population growth : 0.9 % (2004)
Life expectancy : 74.4 (2004)
GNI per capita : 1.010 US$ (2004)
GDP : 20.1 US$ billions (2004)
Sources:
World
Development Indicators Database
Nationsonline
Database
Head of State: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
(President)
Source: Sri
Lanka Government Web Portal
Politics and society
CIA.
The World Factbook
First
maritime terrorist attack of 2006. SAAG
India
watches helplessly as Sri Lanka bleeds. SAAG 060506
Sri
Lanka : the wounded tiger. SAAG
Sri
Lanka Manitoring Mission ( SLMM)
The Government of Sri
Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) created
the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) through the signing of the
Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) on February 22nd 2002. Based on the CFA
The Royal Norwegian Government (NRG) and the Government of Sri Lanka
concluded a Status of Mission Agreement (SOMA) where status, privileges
and immunities of SLMM and its members are defined and determined.
The SOMA is endorsed by the LTTE leadership.
The Secretariat for Coordinating
the Peace Process
LTTE Peace Secretariat
Reuters
Alernet: CRISIS PROFILE: Sri Lanka teeters on the brink of war.
A surge in violence in Sri Lanka has stoked fears the island is
sliding back into civil war. Here's the background to the conflict
and its impact on the country's people.
Government sites
The Official Website
of the Government of Sri Lanka
Governments
on the WWW
National
Peace Council
Political parties
Political
Resources on the Net
Eelan
People's Democratic Party
JVP-
People's Liberation Front
Leftist
Parties of the World. Sri Lanka
Elections
2004
Election Results
Electionworld
News
Daily
Mirror
Daily
News
Infolanka
The
Island
The Lanka Academic
Lanka
Chronicle
Lankapage
Lankaweb
Sri
Lankan News.Net
Sunday
Observer
The
Sunday Times
Tamilnet
Tamil Guardian
News from foreign sources
BBC
Sinhala
BBC
Tamil
CNN. International edition.
Asia
Yahoo! News (incl. AP, Reuters)
Research Institutions and Networks
International
conference 2006 : reviewing the past for reshaping the future
This
International Conference is organized by " Eastern
University of Sri Lanka " as a part of Silver
Jubilee celebration on the theme "Reviewing the Past for Reshaping
the Future".
Over the past few decades
Sri Lanka had faced numerous natural hazards and a major ethnic
conflict which led to the loss of lives and destruction of properties
and the natural environment of the country. The conference aims
to examine various aspects of the issues in order to initiate dialogue
that can lead to formulate strategies and mechanisms for a secure
future.
Inauguration
of the International Conference will be on the 10 th December 2006
and the Conference will be held at the Eastern University, Sri Lanka
on the 11 th and 12 th December 2006.
Southasia
Matters - yahoo.group
Supplied note:
"Some of us (esp. based in Southasia) felt the need of having an
e-list and an open platform to discuss issues of significance, activism,
development work and share conference notices, research findings,
teaching materials, and highlight books and book reviews on South
Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and
the Maldives) hence Southasia_matters was founded [on 5 April 2006
- ed.]. Please join...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southasia_matters/
Tanap,
Towards a New Age of Partnership in Dutch East India Company Archives
and Research (TANAP) "Objectives of the TANAP programme: a.
to preserve the VOC [Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, Dutch East
India Company, 1602-1796] archives [...] b. [...] to improve the[ir]
availability and accessibility [...] c. to carry out research into
the early-modern economic and social transformations in Asia and
Southern Africa; d.
to train a new generation of historians in Asia, Africa and Europe
[...]."[Participating] Universities; * Archives (Archives keeping
VOC documents: Nationaal Archief, Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia,
Cape Town Archives Repository, National Archives of Sri Lanka, Tamil
Nadu Archives, British Library - Oriental and India Office Collections,
Arkib Negara Malaysia)
Development organisations / agencies
World
Bank. Sri Lanka Homepage
IMF
Country Information
Asian Development
Bank. Sri Lanka Homepage
ReliefWeb
Other resources
Human
Rights Watch. Sri_Lanka
Sri
Lanka Search Engine
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