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Proactive Functions of CSOs in Post War Situations: Importance of Having Branded CSOs (Learnings from Sri Lanka)

In: Building Sustainable Communities

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  • Jeganathan Thatparan

    (Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public)

Abstract

Sri Lanka has had longer-established welfare systems, including components that would be seen as comprising parts of social protection systems. But social and economic changes since the 1980s have brought a different environment which includes internal civil war or internal armed conflict; lack of role clarity among civil society organizations, several state officials appointed, stak eholders and state organs introduced, standards of living and the nature of services or responses have become problematic during the time of conflict. However, it should be reminded that civil societies including media have played a significant role to function proactively to hold accountability for the actions of the state and non-state actors, neither by domestic mechanisms nor any other local authorities concerned. On the other side, international and non-state actors’ supports also had to be well acknowledged and welcomed by the state agencies in the past 30 years. In particular, there has been a non-governmental organization (NGO) trend or international move towards the use, development and consolidation of “national systems”, in which the international standards interconnected to local mechanisms as well as with the communities. And, thus, the international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)—the international community—have been (anti-)democratically permitted to get involved in the lives of the people neither by assisting financially the community-based organizations (CBOs) nor supporting states by enhancing partnerships. On several occasions, the national systems were not formally informed on the context of democratic or anti-democratic engagement of the international communities. By considering the aforementioned scenario, this chapter assesses the role of CSOs in the Transitional Justice and Peace Building process rather than them being treated as implementing agencies that focus on projects and function as a local pressure group of external forces.

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  • Jeganathan Thatparan, 2020. "Proactive Functions of CSOs in Post War Situations: Importance of Having Branded CSOs (Learnings from Sri Lanka)," Springer Books, in: Md. Nurul Momen & Rajendra Baikady & Cheng Sheng Li & M. Basavaraj (ed.), Building Sustainable Communities, edition 1, chapter 24, pages 497-502, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-2393-9_24
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2393-9_24
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