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    • Electoral Reform in Sri Lanka: Mixed-Member Proportional System 

      Politics Team (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016)
      Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto, published after his election on 8 January 2015, included a response to a long-standing demand to reform Sri Lanka’s electoral system. This paper examines the key ...
    • Maintaining Democratic Space in the Public Sphere: A Strategy for Sri Lanka Civil Society 

      de Mel, Nishan; Gunatilleke, Gehan; Chaaminda, Sumith (Verité Research, 2015-10)
      Civil society in Sri Lanka has maintained a complex relationship with political society. Over the years, the nature and extent of civil society space has been determined by the policies and ideologies dominant in the ...
    • Mapping Sri Lanka's Political Parties: Actors and Evolutions 

      Ekanayake, Charudaththa (Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-11)
      This report examines the histories of individual political parties in Sri Lanka. Over the course of Sri Lankan history, four political parties have dominated the political landscape: the United National Party (UNP), the ...
    • Presidential Election of 2015: A reading from the Uva Province Election 2014 

      Politics Team (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015)
      This report provides an analysis of the 2014 Uva Provincial Council election. It includes an explanation of the importance of this Provincial Council election and also provides an analysis of the results of elections in ...
    • The President’s Pledges to Women — A review of the promises and progress made in President Sirisena’s pledge: “A New Sri Lanka for Women” 

      Politics Team (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)
      President Maithripala Sirisena pledged ‘A New Sri Lanka for Women’, during his election campaign. The pledge is an ambitious document; it comprises fifteen broad promises, by which the government seeks to alter the lives ...
    • Provincial Council Elections 2014: A Political Analysis—Central, Northern and North Western Province 

      Chaaminda, Sumith; de Mel, Nishan (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013)
      Provincial Council elections were conducted in three of Sri Lanka’s nine provinces, the Central (CP), North-Western (NWP) and Northern Provinces (NP) in September 2013. These provinces, when combined together, account for ...
    • Provincial Council Elections 2014: Reading into the margins - Western and Southern Provinces 

      Alphonsus, Daniel; Kumarage, Aloka (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014)
      Provincial Council elections were conducted in Sri Lanka’s Western and Southern provinces on 29 March 2014. This report analyses political party performance at these elections using historical, polling division, and ...
    • Silent Suppression: Restrictions on Religious Freedoms of Christians 1994-2014 

      Fernando, Janeen (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015)
      This study systematically analyses trends of restrictions faced by Christians over the past twenty years and aims to provide activists, academics, civil society, religious leaders and other relevant stakeholders key insights ...
    • Sri Lanka Provincial Council Elections 2012 

      Research Bulletin;Vol. 02, No. 04
      de Mel, Nishan; Chaaminda, Sumith
      (2012-09)
      This report features a comprehensive analysis of the Provincial Council Elections held in September 2012, detailing the performance of major political parties, voting trends, and the emerging political landscape in post-war ...
    • Sri Lanka Strategic Assessment 2016 

      de Mel, Nishan; Gunatilleke, Gehan; Fernando, Janeen; Knight, Malathy; Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Mohammed, Rehana; Wettimuny, Shamara; Munas, Hasna (Colombo: The Asia Foundation, 2016-03)
      Sri Lanka underwent a major political transition in 2015 with the election of President Maithripala Sirisena and the establishment of a new coalition government between the United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and one ...
    • Sri Lanka Strategic Assessment 2016 

      Verité Research (The Asia Foundation, 2016-03)
      Sri Lanka underwent a major political transition in 2015 with the election of President Maithripala Sirisena and the establishment of a new coalition government between the United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and ...
    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Civil Society In Sight but Out of Mind 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report;No. 3
      Politics Team
      (Colombo, Verite Research Pvt. Ltd., 2015-03)
      Verité Research conducted interviews with 22 members of civil society organizations to assess the quantity and quality of research on the subject of domestic workers’ rights in Sri Lanka. While measuring and evaluating ...