Abstract:
Sri Lanka has emerged from three decades prolonged violent ethnic
conflict, the conflict has affected quality of individual and collective lives as well as
socio economic and political well beings of whole country. In the phase of post -
conflict Sri Lanka a greater responsibility is awaiting to all people of this country and
also to the world community to give their genuine contribution for building lasting
peace. In a continuing situation of polarized societies building lasting peace and
rebuilding a prosperous community are greater challenges. If the absence situations of
mutual understanding continue finally it will lead to another conflict.
Sri Lanka as a multi ethnic country the ethnic diversity, lack of maturity of
political leaders to manage the diversity and ethno - centric nationalism were the
reasons for the outbreak of the last conflict. With the understanding of it, this is the
suitable time to all people and people's representatives for building societies with
mutual understanding to live together.
In this basis the objectives of this research are to analyze why and how ethnic
diversity was a matter in the past and to find the ways to eliminate the diversity for a
better future. As a descriptive study this research attempts to give a detail report to the
policy makers for their nation building policies.
