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	Liberal Peace In Question by Kristian Stokke
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About the Book: Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of State and Market Reform in Sri Lanka The present book examines the internationally facilitated peaceprocess between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in order to providecritical insights on contemporary attempts at crafting liberalpeace in intrastate conflicts. The general argument is for abroadened political perspective on conflict resolution, extendingthe focus from the narrow confines of formal peace negotiations andelitist crafting of liberal peace, to the contextual politics ofstate reforms for group rights and power-sharing and the associatedpolitics of economic reforms for neoliberal development. Inexamining the contextual politics of state and market reforms inSri Lanka, the book highlight the tensions between liberal peaceand Sinhalese and Tamil nationalisms, demonstrated in thecontestations over political exclusion vs. inclusion in peacenegotiations, individual human rights vs. group rights, territorialpower sharing vs. state sovereignty and neoliberal development vs.social welfare. Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Liberal Peace in Question: The Sri Lankan Case - KristianStokke 2. Travails of State Reform in the Context of Protracted CivilWar in Sri Lanka - Jayadeva Uyangoda 3. Fallacies of the Peace Ownership Approach: ExploringNorwegian Mediation in Sri Lanka - Kristine Hglund and IsakSvensson 4. The Politics of Market Reform at a Time of Ethnic Conflict:Sri Lanka in the Jayewardene Years - Rajesh Venugopal 5. From SIHRN to Post-War North and East: The Limits of thePeace through Development Paradigm in Sri Lanka - Charan Rainfordand Ambika Satkunanathan 6. Buying Peace? Politics of Reconstruction and the PeaceDividend Argument - Camilla Orjuela 7. Womens Initiative in Building Peace: The Case of Northern SriLanka - Doreen Arulanantham Chawade 8. Liberal Peace and Public Opinion - Pradeep Peiris andKristian Stokke Notes References ISBN - 9789380601427