From the Margins of War: The Post War Experience of the Palankudi Community

This research project, titled Memories from the Margin: The Voices of Coastal Indigenous Communities was designed to extend the conversation on post-war reconciliation to include marginalised voices and thereby contribute to an intersectional understanding of peace.

The project was conducted by the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) and funded by the Think Tank Capacity Building (TTCB) initiative of the University of South Carolina Rule of Law Collaborative. To ensure that marginalised voices sit at the centre of the discourse on post-war reconciliation, the research project worked with two Palankudi communities (indigenous) in Trincomalee (Santhosapuram and Verugal), focusing on their history, traditions, culture, and lives during the civil war and in the post-war period.

The policy brief is drafted with the aim of addressing the structural and institutional issues that the community face in the post-war context. 

සිංහල – Policy Brief (Sinhala)

தமிழ் – Policy Brief (Tamil)