The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Sri Lanka

This report investi gates the impact on gender dynamics and community resilience of its engage- ment in the Monaragala district in the south and the Mullaitivu district in the north. [...] This will require viii the wfp’s contribution to improving the prospects for peace in sri lanka insight into and understanding of the ethnic composition of and power dynamics in the relevant communities, as well as the potential barriers women and men face in accessing WFP programmes. [...] Joint participation in the programme x the wfp’s contribution to improving the prospects for peace in sri lanka could help the catering business grow and expand to non-state clients, and enable the sharing of rewards and the income generated, as well as social integration and status gains. [...] ‘Focus on the common good’ measures ‘actions and atti tudes that evince people’s willing ness to take responsibility for others and the community’.22 The latter includes ‘solidarity and helpfulness, the recognition of social rules, and partici pation in society and political life’.23 Sri Lanka moved from being categorized as a ‘middle tier’ country in Asia in terms of social cohesion in 2004-2008. [...] The insurrections by marginalized rural poor Sinhalese Buddhist youth (mostly from south and central Sri Lanka) were suppressed in 1971 and in 1987–89, resulting in an estimated 60 000 deaths.27 Ethnic conflict and power disputes between Sri Lanka’s Hindu, Tamil minority in the north and east of the country and the Buddhist Sinhalese majority in the rest of Sri 18 O’ Neil, A., ‘Sri Lanka: Distribu.