Abstract:
Democracy is a very prominent concept in the academic literatures. It is considered as
a practical type of government and a system of socio-economic life of the people.
However, practice of the democracy has been challenged in the present world. It is not
exception to Sri Lanka. In the Sri Lankan context, fundamentals of democracy have
been accepted within government framework since its liberated British empire and it
was further strengthened by constitutional arrangements. Nevertheless, over three
decade civil strife led to democratic crisis in Sri Lanka. Especially, civil war attacked
democratic nature of political and civil administration of North and Eastern province
of Sri Lanka. At the present post-war period, democracy is although considered as a
main goal for government development policy, it has been challenged in various
ways. In this backdrop, this dissertation attempts to analysis the democratic crises in
the Eastern province of Sri Lanka. The above stated purpose is analyzed by studying
both primary and secondary materials such as related books, documents, news paper
articles, periodicals and website articles.
Further, this dissertation entitled, "Democratic Crises in Post - War Sri Lanka: With
Special reference to Eastern Province." is arranged as follows: Chapter one sketch
introduction of the research which includes importance of research, research purpose,
research problems, research hypothesis, research methodology and data collection,
study area, literature review and research organization. Chapter two is related to the
theories and basic assumption in relation to the concept of democracy. This chapter is
formulated with the basic ideas, types and conditions of democracy. Chapter three
introduces the study area. It provides socio-economic and political aspects of the area.
Particularly, this study focus one of the provincial area, Eastern Province as a case.
Chapter four is analyzing part. It analysis democratic crises which impacted on the
political and civil administration of the province. Basically, this chapter is an
empirical analysis with using collected data and chapter five concludes the
dissertation with suggestions to uplift the situation in the study area.
Major finding of this dissertation is practice of democracy in the eastern province has
been challenged due to various reasons.