Developing countries have unique challenges and minimal resources resulting in vulnerability to psychological distress. International research suggests youth in developing countries are often impacted by adversity. Resilience reduces the effects of adversity. Kent, Davis and Rei…
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My thesis explores a violent episode which took place in a Sinhala village in Sri Lanka. Thisepisode involved a series of events which unfolded between November 1989-January 1990,when 22 schoolboys were abducted from their homes, tortured and killed by personnel basedat a neighb…
Alek Fraser spent most of his adult life in the world of education in the British colonies. His tenure of office as Principal of Trinity College, Kandy, one of Ceylon's most prestigious schools for boys, ran from 1904 to 1924 and covered a period of immense educational, societal…
Over the last three decades, the impact of dramatic change in the social, religious, political and economic environment has led to a rapid expansion in the number of women entering the paid labour force in Sri Lanka as elsewhere. However, their identities and workload continue t…
The potential for aquaculture to be integrated within a large-scale irrigation system taking a poverty-focused approach was investigated in the Mahaweli System H irrigation system of North Western Province, Sri Lanka. Using a livelihoods approach an initial situation appraisal i…
Over the last decade China has heavily invested in deep-water ports in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Many scholars explain these investments in light of China’s economic expansion and long-term strategic goals. However, scholars have not paid enough attention to the ration…
By using case-studies as method of analysis, the dissertation analyzes the impact external variables can have at the onset of genocide and politicides. While a majority of studies focus on internal conditions when analyzing these events, the basic premise of this dissertation st…
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) that was developed in Madagascar in the 1980s offers resource-poor farmers the possibility of attaining higher yields without use of external inputs. Conflicting reports on the validity of SRI suggests that more research should be devoted…
The purpose of the study was to contribute to the overall understanding of terrorist organizations' use of the Internet and to increase researchers' knowledge of Web site effectiveness. The methodological approach was evaluation of the perceived credibility of Web sites based on…
How do small bands of lightly armed, half-trained insurgents fight armies many times their size to a stalemate, and sometimes even win the war? Why is it that large, modern militaries with their overwhelmingly superior capabilities so often fail against the smallest adversaries?…
Contemporary conflicts often produce vast territories outside the control of the recognized political sovereign. Instead of sinking into anarchy, rebel organizations may establish forms of political and social order within these territories. While many rebel groups remain predat…
Transtextualities concerns English-language fictions by A. Sivanandan, Mukul Kesavan, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Amitav Ghosh and Kamila Shamsie. These authors seek to intervene in nationalist practices that exclude minority voices from official vers…
An increase in intra-state, ethnic conflicts has created a need for a renewed analysis of the causes, consequences and solutions to the “new” predominant type of conflict. This dissertation is a contribution to the existing academic efforts to explore the questions of ethnic con…
This dissertation investigates narrative representations of traumatic recovery in contemporary poetry and prose by islanders from Cyprus, Puerto Rico, and Sri Lanka. These three islands are all to a great extent English-speaking, largely under-represented, and have suffered nati…
This dissertation explores the production and maintenance of difference among Tamil and Muslim adolescents in Kandy, Sri Lanka, under the conditions of an ongoing civil war between the Sri Lankan government and a Tamil insurgency group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE…
The present dissertation aims to contribute to research on relationships between foreign capital, domestic savings and output by improving on the previous empirical investigations in terms of methodology as well as in terms of treatment of the data under investigation. The South…
The involvement of the international community in internal situations of ethnic conflict is becoming more common as international actors intervene to restore order after the outbreak of violent ethnic conflict. This dissertation addresses the assumption that these multilateral f…
Despite the presence of socio-economic and political inequalities and the persistence of violence against the female segment of society, four women have emerged as the leaders of political parties and heads of government in South Asia: Mrs. Bandaranaike in Sri Lanka, Mrs. Indira…
Fieldwork in the southern foothills of the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka has revealed an archaeometallurgical record dating from the 4th century BC to the present-day. Archaeological and ethnographic surveys, followed by excavations at selected sites, established that the recor…