Triumph and disaster : the Rajapaksa years. Part 1, Success in war : my time at the Peace Secretariat, 2007-2009 / Rajiva Wijesinha
- Bib ID:
- 7132531
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wijesinha, Rajiva, author
- Description:
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- Colombo, Sri Lanka : S. Godage & Brothers, [2015]
- xiv, 279 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9789553065391 (hardback)
- 9553065392 (hardback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Pace Secretariat and the cease fire agreement
- 2. International indulgence to the LTTE
- 3. International pressures to stop the war
- 4. Attacks in Sri Lanka
- 5. The rent seekers
- 6. Funding for peace diverted to critics of government
- 7. Real support for the victims of war : reopening the A9
- 8. Working on social issues
- 9. The Human Rights Council in Geneva
- 10. Visits from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 11. A political impasse
- 12. Questions of rights
- 13. The International Commission of Jurists and its secretary's politics
- 14. Steady progress in the north in 2008, and in Colombo
- 15. Using aid productively
- 16. Allegations intensify
- 17. The LTTE deployment of aid workers
- 18. Planning for the future, and the reasons for failure
- 19. The failure to deal with disinformation regarding the final stages
- 20. Pursuing precision as to allegations
- 21. Positive interactions with the UN
- 22. Continuing with social initiatives
- 23. The triumph at Geneva, and its erosion
- 24. The end of the Peace Secretariat.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- "This book takes on from where my political history of Sri Lanka, Declining Sri Lanka, stops" -- Introduction.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Wijesinha, Rajiva. Declining Sri Lanka
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2015
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