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102862
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2010.
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It has been 18 months since the cessation of the armed conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the rebel forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Although the war has finally come to an end, one cannot conclude that the core issue of Tamil minority rights and cultural autonomy has been resolved. Drawing from the theory of multiculturalism, this paper argues that the Sri Lankan state has interpreted and assessed minority group rights and cultural autonomy as a threat to its national security, thereby securitising the debate on Tamil minority rights, which led to a self-fulfilling prophesy. Moreover, it argues that the end of the civil war presents an opportunity for the state to shift its interpretive logic of minority rights from security to justice in order to address the core issue of cultural autonomy in Sri Lanka.
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098987
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2010.
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This article explores how religion as a political force shapes and deflects the struggle for gender equality in contexts marked by different histories of nation building and challenges of ethnic diversity, different state-society relations (from the more authoritarian to the more democratic), and different relations between state power and religion (especially in the domain of marriage, family and personal laws). It shows how 'private' issues, related to the family, sexuality and reproduction, have become sites of intense public contestation between conservative religious actors wishing to regulate them based on some transcendent moral principle, and feminist and other human rights advocates basing their claims on pluralist and time- and context-specific solutions. Not only are claims of 'divine truth' justifying discriminatory practices against women hard to challenge, but the struggle for gender equality is further complicated by the manner in which it is closely tied up with, and inseparable from, struggles for social and economic justice, ethnic/racial recognition, and national self-determination vis- -vis imperial/global domination.
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