Archive for the 'Peace-Conflict-Governance' Category
After over 15 months with Beyond Borders I have finally decided it is high time to voice myself simply because of the drama that we are been exposed to day in and day out courtesy of the post war hullaballoo and the upcoming presidential elections. Thanks to them we are not lacking entertainment but then [...]
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The Northern Displaced Muslims
As a part of a continuing Peace and Governance project. We will be paying a visit to Puttlam soon to have a chat with some youth from the Northern Displaced Muslim communities.
These IDPs are Muslims who were purged from the North by the LTTE during the early 90’s. As a result of their attempts at [...]
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Social Cancer
Whenever we Sri Lankans look around, at a newspaper or the evening news, we see the farce that is our politics. It’s something that people like to chat about as well; “this minister did this”, “that minister was involved” and so on. So it is very easy to point fingers at our governing officials, but then again [...]
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YaTV speaks to Mohomad Hisham, a national steering committee member of the Sri Lanka Youth Parliament and a good friend of Beyond Borders. The interview is below:
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Let alone Nestomalt, it was the best cup of anything I’ve ever drunk in my life. Honestly speaking, it was the first cup of Nestomalt I’ve ever drunk, cos’ I hate the stuff usually. Enough about me and Nestomalt, let me tell you why it was the best cup I’ve ever drunk!
I’m going to be [...]
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Tags: AID, Colombo, Help, IDPs, Sri Lanka, Story
Our TOT on Citizenship Education
Went well. Most of the guys who applied were a bit older than we expected, but we had diverse range of organizations and backgrounds were represented. Hopefully some of these guys would start their own initiatives of civic education in their communities.
What Beyond Borders hopes to achieve is to create a bunch of people competent [...]
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Tags: Citizenship Education, Civic Education, Colomvo, Education, Reform, Sri Lanka
To Speak the Truth and Die
Lasantha Wickrematunge was killed for being a vociferous proponent of what he and many others thought was the truth, the world has seen a great many good souls who have been mysteriously killed for speaking the truth. Many have spoken about how Lasantha was great in what he did.
I have another [...]
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Tags: Freedom, Lasatha, Sri Lanka, Truth, UK, War
One of the most real complaints by Tamil-speaking civillians in Sri Lanka is that they cannot speak in their own language when communicating with government officials including policemen and security personnel.
Writing for his “Choices” column at LBO, Rohan Samarijiva offers a simple and a simply brilliant idea for implementing bilingual (hell, even trilingual) communication in [...]
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Tags: Bilungual, Colombo, Ethnic Conflict, Language, Sri Lanka
Independence, and independent media. Cartoon by Denver Pereira and Avantha Atigala from Daily Mirror. Cartoonists have been playing a significant role in expressing the sentiments of people, and those of the media fraternity, on the suppression of media in Sri Lanka.
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A drive through history
The first murder ever was when Abel brought down Cain,
the ill effects of jealousy saw one of the brothers slain
this day Man came to know that lives could be taken,
with Animal instincts’ flaring and human values forsaken
This first pint of blood spilt, was all but shed in vain,
The habit of causing pain topped even the [...]
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