Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka

Neil Devotta received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the university of Texas at Austin and is presently an Assistant professor of Political Science at Hartwick College, New York. His research interests include South Asian security and Politics, ethnicity and nationalism, ethnic conflict resolution, globalization and its impact on developing societies, and democratic transitions. He is the author of Blowback: Linguistic nationalism, Institutional decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka (Stanford: Stanford university Press, 2004) and co-editor of Understanding Contemporary India (Boulder: Lynn Rienner Press, 2003) and has also published articles on reviews journals, including Journal of Democracy, Contemporary South Asia, Pacific Affairs, and Asian Survey.

P. Sahadevan is Associate Professor in South Asian Studies, School of International Studies and member of the Core Group for the Study of National Security, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He held visiting fellowships at the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. (1993-94) and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A. (1998). He is Author of India and Overseas Indians: The case of Sri Lanka (New Delhi, 1995); Coping with Disorder: Strategies to End Internal Wars in South Asia (Colombo, 2000), and numerous research papers on South Asia in general and Sri Lanka in particular.