Stabilising a victor's peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka

Bibliographic Data

ID3206754
AuthorsJ Goodhand (0000-0003-2036-0655, SOAS University of London, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume34
Issues3
PagesS342-67
Publication date2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisasters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01212.x
PMID20846349
OpenAlexW2072560456
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited18

This paper focuses on the 'Sri Lankan model' of counter-insurgency and stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian and development actors. The Sri Lanka case shows that discourses, policies and practices associated with 'stabilisation' are not confined to 'fragile state' contexts in which there is heavy (and often militarised) international engagement-even though exemplars such as Afghanistan and Iraq have tended to dominate debates on this issue. Rather than being a single template, the 'stabilisation agenda' takes on very different guises in different contexts, presenting quite specific challenges to humanitarian and development actors. This is particularly true in settings like Sri Lanka, where there is a strong state, which seeks to make aid 'coherent' with its own vision of a militarily imposed political settlement. Working in such environments involves navigating a highly-charged domestic political arena, shaped by concerns about sovereignty, nationalism and struggles for legitimacy

Action (physics · Development economics · Ethnology · Humanitarian aid · Insurgency · Legitimacy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · South asia · Sovereignty · Sri lanka · State (computer science · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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