Abstract:
Over the recent past, there has been an increasing importance of managing civil conflicts
with the involvement of international actors such as individual states, regional and international
multilateral organizations (Regan 2002).In Sri Lanka, unprecedently, there had been a close
international involvement in the peace process right from its onset in 2002 with the proclaimed
attempt of finding political solution to the decades-long civil war between government of Sri
Lanka(GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam(LTTE). In this backdrop, this paper
attempts to examine systematically the potential effects of Norway-led multilateral intervention
on the course and duration of the civil war in Sri Lanka by using qualitative analysis based
on major empirical argumentation of the scholarship of effects of external intervention in
civil war situation. Results of the analysis suggest dichotomous findings that while supporting
the empirical argument casts skepticism over the adequate treatment of factors that influence
the outcome of intervention by the empirical studies.
