Abstract:
Sri Lanka has been experienced a brutal war and struggle for over 30 years. During this period,
the war caused hardships for the population, environment and the economy of the country were seriously
damaged. The number of civilians has been lost their lives whereas many were displaced. Several
occasions, the Sri Lankan government attempted to take them a lasting negotiated settlement with the
international mediation, the LTTE violated the cease-fire agreement over thousand times. Finally, the Sri
Lankan military defeated terrorism (the LTTE-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) instrumentally in May
2009, bringing the civil war to an end. Now, we are living in the post war period where we can see
explosive regional tensions of ethnic and religious character in Sri Lanka as Buddhists, Tamils, Muslims
and Christians. According to the Buddhist perspective, it suggests that the loving-kindness to be possible
we must be able to look at another human being as another human being, irrespective of caste, creed, race,
colour, class or faith. Instead of understanding the causality of violence and conflict, common opinion
relies on the instrumentality of it to vanquish unjust violence, for Buddhist principles. Buddhism strongly
believes that the ignorance of the other cultures and nationalities creates a narrow, distorted view of life
and the world. Therefore, Buddhism recommends to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation
among individuals, groups and nations. The prime concern of this study is to focus on the Buddhist
practical principles to strengthen the reconciliation process for better and stable Sri Lanka.
