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Human Rights, Humanitarian Laws and the Continuing Displacement in Sri Lanka

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

By
Jeevan Thiagarajah  and
Dinusha Pathiraja
Edited by
Sibaji Basu
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INTRODUCTION

You can record the 20th century as a story of astonishing technical progress, you can tell it as a rise and fall of powers, or as a painful recovery from modern society's relapses into barbarism. But if you leave out ideas, you leave out what people were ready to live and die for.

The development of principles on displacement as a discourse can be attributed to the development of ideas in the twentieth century. Ideas can change the nature of international public policy discourse while helping governments and other actors to redesign their policies, identities and interests. At the same time, ideas can contribute to formation of new coalitions, political or institutional forces. Once an idea is stated, especially within the diverse global world of the twentieth century, it takes a life course of its own. The development of internal displacement as a discourse derived out of displacement discourse was the result of this cyclical phenomenon. Internal displacement is becoming a crucial factor affecting the course of Sri Lanka in its approach towards development. The main thrust of this paper is to analyse the many facets of displacement existent hitherto within a framework of human rights and humanitarian laws while bringing to the fore selected international developments of internal displacement as a discourse that is relevant to Sri Lanka.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW: A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS

At the outset, it becomes necessary to outline the discursive paradigms of human rights and humanitarian laws.

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Print publication year: 2009

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