• Historical Consciousness and Transitional Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka 

      Dewasiri, Nirmal <University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka> (N. Dewasiri, Historical Consciousness and Transitional Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020, 2020)
      Historical consciousness is a decisive factor in Sri Lanka with regards to the relationships between Sinhala and Tamil ethnic communities. It functioned as a great divide between these two communities. It was also used as ...
    • It is Young People that Give Me Hope 

      Feyen, Christoph <German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Colombo, Sri Lanka> (F. Christoph. It is Young People that Give Me Hope, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020, 2020)
      Seventy-seven years after gaining independence and 11 years after the end of a long civil war, Sri Lankan public discourse is still searching for a broadly accepted concept of national identity and struggling to find ...
    • Memoryscapes: The Evolution of Sri Lanka’s Aragala Bhoomiya as a People’s Space of Protest 

      Hettiarachchi, Radhika <Independent Researcher, Sri Lanka>; Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi <University of Colombo, Sri Lanka> (2023)
      The ‘aragalaya’ or the ‘people’s struggle’ was perhaps one of the most important and successful movements of Sri Lanka’s long history of democracy. In 2015, democracy prevailed, unexpectedly and against all odds, when Sri ...