The Role of Social Protection in State Legitimacy in the Former Conflict Areas of Sri Lanka
Description
Social welfare programmes are considered to strengthen the state’s relationship. Hence social protection has been linked theoretically with state legitimacy. This relationship is important when it comes to post-war circumstances as social protection can contribute to peace building and stability. This paper focuses on war affected areas where the state provided basic services even during fighting by bringing out the people’s perceptions of the state and their experiences of accessing and using social protection programmes affected these perceptions. Forever this report dig deeper into people’s perception of state.