Sri Lanka is now going through its worst economic and political crisis. The situation is deteriorating every day, as supplies fail, and youth-led protests spread to general strikes. Further intensification of the protests can cause a total economic collapse, leading to a humanitarian crisis and anarchy. Some form of interim stability is therefore necessary to ensure at least the minimum stability required to manage the economic crisis and restore normalcy.
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The OTI publication “A Quest for Freedom and Stability in the Indian Ocean”, published in February 2022, contains a discussion on the emerging strategic trends in the Indian Ocean Region and their implications for Sri Lanka’s national interests. The report contains an outline of the key interests of major powers in the Indian Ocean Region, namely China, India, and the USA, and what scope there is for cooperation and peace among these actors. These developments are then factored into developing f
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CHALLENGES OF EQUAL DESTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES IN PERIPHERAL DECISION MAKING BODIES IN SRI LANKA
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The purpose of these political and constitutional thoughts is to assist dialogue within and outside the Parliamentary Select Committee to bring about appropriate constitutional and political measures to empower the peoples of Sri Lanka to live as one nation. With this purpose in mind we will look at some basic thoughts on political and constitutional principles (Section II), alternative thoughts to operationalize the PSC process towards a meaningful end (Section III), a preamble thought for the
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Autobiographies of Nations First Principles of Constitution
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Various discussions on the proposed 20th Amendment are taking place in political as well as civil society. Those who support and see the positives of the 20th amendment argue the falls of 19th amendment due to two power centres as one of the major reason for supporting the propose amendment.
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Autobiographies of Nations First Principles of Constitutions https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OOdTXWcbZxRI9EeLhvCJrxAVR20WX_TK/view?usp=sharing
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Year 2021 is challenging. The prevailing global pandemic has created many economic challenges in Sri Lanka as well as at global level. Sri Lanka is a republic. In other words, the sovereign power of the country is vested in the people. The manner in which the said sovereign power should be exercised is stipulated in the Constitution. Accordingly, Article 4 of the Constitution stipulates that the legislative power of the people shall be exercised by the Parliament. Full Docume
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One Text Initiative (OTI) is an inter-political party dialogue facilitator that promotes consensus-based policy making. Scenario building is at the core of OTI’s approach to understand policy challenges and identify areas for inter-party consensus building. As the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and the government response to it are shaping Sri Lanka’s political economy and the cultural landscape in unprecedented manner, OTI carried out a consultative scenario building process to predict future sc
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It is your responsibility to make every citizen of the country aware of the Constitution of your country as well as it will be the primary document that determines your security, rights, freedom and democracy. Therefore, we decided to give you a simple explanation of the constitution of an important country.
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