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Salter, Mark : TO END A CIVIL WAR: NORWAY'S PEACE ENGAGEMENT IN SRI LANKA

Hurst, 2015

ISBN 9781849045742

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought betwe en the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an ind ependent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crush ing defeat of the Tamil Tigers at the hands of the Sri Lanka Army. But prio r to this grim finale, for some time there had been hope for a peaceful end to the conflict. Beginning with a ceasefire agreement in early 2002, for a lmost five years a series of peace talks between the two sides took place i n locations ranging from Thailand and Japan to Norway, Germany and Switzerl and. To End a Civil War tells the story of trying to bring peace to Sri Lanka. I n particular it tells the story of how a faraway European nation--Norway--c ame to play a central role in efforts to end the conflict, and what its sma ll, dedicated team of mediators did in their untiring efforts to reach what ultimately proved the elusive goal of a negotiated peace. In doing so it fills a critical gap in our understanding of the Sri Lankan conflict. But it also illuminates in detail a much wider problem: the intense fragility that surrounds peace processes and the extraordinary lengths to which their proponents often stretch in order to secure their progress., Very Good

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