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CPA organized an al The Future Of Sri L Feb, in Colombo
Attended by ov Symposium brought civil society groups reviewed the works the Awareness Work over the previous ye phase of the progra examined.
Participants, mo Colombo, were affo views of the politica conflict.
Rohan Edrisinha Constitutional Affair “Sri Lanka, the Futu Sumith Weerasingha Ismail and the Natio shared trainer expe this was followed by Lunstead , Ambassa America. Hon Rajith
CMEV commenced m Elections Campaign 2 February 16. It was only certain selected P and Municipal Counc Election. Selection w high incidence of ele diverse electorates a parties and independ
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“In our opinion there is no alternative to this.Federalism with its reconciliation of the demands for “self rule” with the aspirations of those for “shared rule” is necessary for Sri Lanka, for a durable and democratic peace and for governance. In order for this to be achieved it is necessary that there be public support and legitimacy for federalism and in turn that the public are aware of all that it entails.” Dr P Saravanamuttu, Executive Director, CPA, addressing participants at the National Symposium on the Future of Democracy and Good Governance in Sri Lanka. Co- ordinator: Lionel Guruge Photos :Sriyantha Walpola
Sanjana in California .........Pg2
Dr Saravanamuttu in
Jordan.........Pg2
Kethesh in India...................Pg 2
Staff Profiles.......................Pg 2
Media Workshop in
Tholangamuwa...............Pg 3
In the Press.........................Pg 3
Calender of Events.............Pg 4
Latest Publications.............Pg 4

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CPA organized an all-island National Symposium On The Future Of Sri Lanka and The Federal Idea, 6th Feb, in Colombo
Attended by over 1000 participants , the Symposium brought together trainers and members of civil society groups from around the island.They reviewed the workshop series which was focused on the Awareness Workshops on Federalism carried out over the previous year.Further plans for the next phase of the programme on a regional basis were also examined.
Participants, most of whom were from outside Colombo, were afforded the opportunity to hear the views of the political parties and main actors in the conflict.
Rohan Edrisinha , Director and Head of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, CPA, made a presentation on “Sri Lanka, the Future and the Federal Idea”. Trainers, Sumith Weerasingha, Senthil Sivanyangam, Shahira Ismail and the National Trainer, S.G. Punchihewa shared trainer experiences with the participants,and this was followed by an address by H.E. Jeffrey J Lunstead , Ambassador of the United States of America. Hon Rajitha Senarathne ,Hon Min of
MEV commenced monitoring of the Local Government lections Campaign 2006 from the close of nominations, bruary 16. It was decided to carry out monitoring of ly certain selected Pradesheeya Sabhas, Urban Councils nd Municipal Councils on March 30, the day of the lection. Selection was based on previous records of a igh incidence of election related violence, ethnically- iverse electorates and locales in which small regional arties and independent groups were contesting. Areas
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CONTACTING CPA
Web
State Dr Saravanamutt
Building & http://www.cpalanka.org
ED, CPA, was invited email
be a resource pers cpa@cpalanka.org
at a meeting
Overall Coordinator of CPA Units: Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Executive Director
E-mail:
Federalism organiz by the United Stat Institute for Pea (USIP) in the Dead Sea, Jordan 2 Feb-2nd March. The meeting w attended by Sunni politicians a cpa_sara@sri.lanka.net
opinion makers from Iraq. Oth
Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)
resource persons included Bob Rae a George Anderson from the Forum Federation and Prof. Cheryl Sande E-mail:
Prof Nicholas Haysom and oth cmev@cpalanka.org
officials from the Office of Constitutio
Legal Unit Contact Person
Support (OCS) of the United Natio Mission in Iraq(UNAMI) also attende Rohan Edrisinha
E-mail: cpalegal@diamond.lanka.net
Media Unit Contact Person Sunanda Deshapriya E-mail: media@cpalanka.org
Dr P Saravanamuttu and Kethe Loganathan, Director,CPA and Hea Peace Unit also made presentations the International Seminar, on th “Peace Process in Sri Lank Peace and Conflict
Challenges & Opportunities”,Feb 15 Analysis Unit Contact Person Sriyani Wijesundara E-mail:
– 16th organised by the Centre f Security Analysis,Chennai, and th Hanns Siedel Foundation
peace@cpalanka.org
Polling Unit Contact Person
Staff Profiles,CPA
Pradeep Peiris E-mail: cpapoll@diamond.lanka.net
Translation Unit Contact Person
Niluka Damayanthi Ratnayake is the newly appointed officer in Gananathan Sivajothy
charge for the Anuradhapura E-mail:
Regional Centre of Vibhasha. The vibhasha@cpalanka.org Our Address
officers administrative work includes conducting language 24/2, 28th Lane,
classes, maintaining the mini Off Flower Road
library and promoting language Colombo 7
based Sri Lanka Tel: 94-11-565304-6 Fax: 94-74-714460
understanding between communities
Veluthan CPA held an in house
Vathanaramya Strategic Planning
Is the officer in Meeting Jan 27th where members of staff were encouraged to contribute their ideas
charge of the Badulla Regional Centre
towards formulation of the organizational Strategic Plan for the
Ms Thuriaraja Vinosine next three years. Staff
Is the new officer and the Board of
in charge of the Directors were in
Vavuniya attendance.
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Building & Internal Conflict... ED, CPA, was invited to be a resource person at a meeting on Federalism organized by the United States Institute for Peace ead Sea, Jordan 27th . The meeting was nni politicians and s from Iraq. Other included Bob Rae and n from the Forum of Prof. Cheryl Sanders. Haysom and other Office of Constitutional f the United Nations NAMI) also attended.
muttu and Kethesh ector,CPA and Head ade presentations at al Seminar, on the ss in Sri Lanka: portunities”,Feb 15th d by the Centre for is,Chennai, and the undation
ofiles,CPA
anthi Ratnayake ppointed officer in
Anuradhapura re of Vibhasha. The nistrative work ucting language aining the mini omoting language
Ms B D Krishanthi Anandawansa who has a B.A.(Special in English) attended the Vibhsasha Translation Program, and is in charge of the English and Sinhala versions of the Trilingual Vibasha Newsletter.
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Leaving CPA ...
Ketheshwaran Loganathan , nal
Director,CPA and Head of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Unit,resigned from CPAs Peace Unit and Board of Directors, as of 31st March.He has been icer
appointed by the Government e
as the Deputy Secretary General of the Government re
Peace Secretariat (SCOPP).
Dr P Saravanamuttu , ED, CPA participated in the Regional Seminar on Political Violence and Terrorism in South Asia, Islamabad, Feb 1-2, organised by the Islamabad Policy Institute and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. He made a presentation on “the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka”.
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Co ordinator, CPA Media Unit, was invited to present a paper titled Thoughts on Democracy, Peace, the Internet and New Media at a conference on Com- munication Technology and So- cial Policy in the Digital Age: Ex- panding Access, Redefining Con- trol organized by Annenberg Schools for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California held 10th March in Palm Springs, California

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CMEV
Unit in Focus
Participants A three-day at the workshop Workshop
titled “One Voice Campaign for Federalism, Peace and Reconciliation” was held, 5th -7th March, at the Hu- man Development Centre, Tholangamuwa, as part of Media Unit's "Voice of Reconciliation" project. Attending the workshop were representatives from a number of organisations which have been working to establish peace and reconciliation and bring in a political solution through the application of the federal idea in Sri Lanka. Among the objectives of the workshop was the formula-
An interview by Lanka Monthly Digest with Rohan Edrisinha, Director and Head of CPA's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Unit appeared in its March
CMEV Posters
issue titled W the Law and Loganathan Head of Pea Resolution U
where the functioning of local government institutions had been affected by the tsunami too were under particular scrutiny.
45 CMEV field monitors began work on March 15th in 17 Districts, and monitored the conduct of the election campaign.
By March 29, CMEV had received 274 reports of incidents of election- related violence. 118 of these were categorized as major incidents, of which 73 were assaults. One murder, that of P. Cyril Anthony, PA member, in Wattala (Gampaha District) on March 18th
was recorded directly relate elections. The number of inc repor Distr Colom Gam Anur (24), (23), (21) (17). numb assa repo North Western province incidents involved the u
arms. The release is the CPA w http:// www.cpalanka.org/ cmev_30th_Mar_2006_
tion of a strategy t these efforts through while retaining i organisational identit explore and create blu a sustainable national munications strategy t peace-building, feder reconciliation in Sri La The workshop was con Donna Barker, (Directo tions and Training) o the primary partner in of Reconciliation pro tated by the Media U at: www.voicesofpea
CPA in the Press ...
Media Workshop in Tholangamuwa

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edia Workshop in Tholangamuwa
on of a strategy to further ese efforts through one voice, hile retaining individual ganisational identities, and to plore and create blueprints for sustainable national level com- unications strategy to promote eace-building, federalism and
conciliation in Sri Lanka.
e workshop was conducted by onna Barker, (Director, Publica- ons and Training) of IMPACS, e primary partner in the Voices f Reconciliation project facili- ted by the Media Unit (More : www.voicesofpeace.lk)
A in the ress ...
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issue titled War Peace and the Law and Kethesh Loganathan, Director and Head of Peace and Conflict Resolution Unit, CPA, was
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MEV
was recorded as being directly related to the elections. The highest number of incidents was
reported from the Districts of Colombo (34), Gampaha (32), Anuradhapura (24), Kurunegala (23), Ratnapura (21) and Kandy (17). The highest number of assaults, 17, was reported from the h Western province. Fourteen ents involved the use of fire
arms. The CMEV press release is available on the CPA website at http:// .cpalanka.org/ v_30th_Mar_2006_3.html
Dr Devanesan Nesiah and Prof.Jayadeva Uyangoda among the paritcipants at the National Symposium.
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Constitutional Affairs D.E.W Gunesekera, Hon Suresh Permachandran (TNA), A.M.Faaiz (Representing SLMC) and Hon. Jayalath Jayawardene,MP, also spoke.
The afternoon was given to an Open Forum on “the Federal Idea: the Way Forward” by prominent civil society leaders, moderated by Sunanda Deshapriya, Head, Media Unit, CPA
The Symposium also made time for a short drama on “Diversity” by Wasantha Moragoda. Simultaneous translations were available and overall co- ordination was by Lionel Guruge.
More information at http:// www.dailymirror.lk/ 2006/02/07/front/2.asp and http:// www.dailynews.lk/ 2006/02/11/
A joint statement was issued by participants at the Symposium emphasizing the need for a National Debate on the Federal Idea. This can be downloaded from : http:// www.cpalanka.org/ Press_Release_Federal_Idea.html

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Official Newsquarterly of the Centre for P C
alender of Events
For more updates January
on events, latest visit
and upcoming February
CPA
EVENTS
http://www.cpalanka.org/calendar_events.html
6th Feb, an all-island National Symposium On The Future Of Sri Lanka and The Federal Idea, Colombo
March
March : Monitoring of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION 2006 5th -7th March
A three-day workshop titled “One Voice Campaign for Federalism, Peace and Reconciliation” at the Human Development Centre, Tholangamuwa, as part of Media Unit's "Voice of Reconciliation" project
EVENTS ATTENDED
Feb 1-2 :Dr P Saravanamuttu , ED, CPA participated in the Regional Seminar on Political Violence and Terrorism in South Asia, Islamabad, organized by the Islamabad Policy Institute and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. He presented a paper on “the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka”.
Feb 15th – 16th Dr P Saravanamuttu and Kethesh Loganathan, Director,CPA and Head Peace Unit made presentations at the International Seminar, on the “Peace Process in
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(>>Page 3) CPA in the Press ... interviewed by the Standard Newspaper in an a
article titled “Peace Activist with a Welcome Difference” On
“Geneva :A word of caution” and “Getting Back to ka
Geneva:Still a lot to do” were among the weekly articles submitted by Dr Saravanamuttu to the “Insight” column of the Morning Leader and he also contributes to Lankadeepa’s weekly “Saama Mawatha” column . “Christmas Day Murder in the Cathedral” by Dr Devenesan Nesiah who is consultant for the Peace Unit, appeared in the Daily Mirror. “A long term view for Peace” (Sunday Observer 5/3) and “All Politics is Local” (Daily Mirror 4/3) were articles written by Sanjana Hattotuwa,Co- ordinator Media Unit. hnic and
Asanga Welikala ,Research Associate CPA, co authored the paper Sri Lanka Politics of the lish
South available at: ionel
http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/ SL_Politics_of_the_South.pdf Mirak Raheem, Resercher ,CPA, authored an article titled “Paramilitaries: The need for a re- think” which appears at http:// www.dailymirror.lk/2006/02/08/opinion/1.htm
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