CONSENSUS ON UNITARY STATE & ABOLITION OF PRESIDENTIALISM NECESSARY FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION – ASANGA WELIKALA

Image: The absence of a policy and strategy of political communication aimed at sustaining public knowledge, engagement, and support for reform has led to the danger of  anti reform politics staging  a come back.

27/10/2017

It is silly in the extreme to think that having the words ‘unitary state’ in a piece of paper called the constitution magically protects us from state failure.

In Sri Lanka, the significance of these old labels is about their use as discursive weapons by ethnic-nationalist ideologues.

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