Sri Lanka: Surviving Ethnic Strife

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 97-111
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About the Author

K.M. de Silva is executive director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and formerly taught modern history at the University of Peradeniya. His publications include Peace Accords and Ethnic Conflict (1992) and Sri Lanka: The Problems of Governance (1993).

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