Livelihood Trajectories and State-Building in Post-War Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war ended in 2009 with the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). While the root causes of the protracted war are multiple and complex, it resulted in uneven territorial development, unequal opportunities for social mobility and laid the foundations for violent social and political dissent. The proliferation of militant groups in the North and East of Sri Lanka culminated in a fully-fledged war in the early 1980s, with the LTTE emerging as a protagonist in the drawn-out conflict with the state. Intermittent conflict led to several waves of internal displacement, and the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 added to the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the war-affected regions of Sri Lanka.

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