Review on Post-War Sri Lanka

Ifri, the French Institute of International Relations (Institut français des relations internationales) released its report of the round table "Post-War Sri Lanka: Roads to Reconciliation". Held at Ifri on 9 December, 2011, the round table organized by the Center for Asian Studies of Ifri addressed broad topics and raised fundamental questions pertaining to reconciliation in post-war countries through a comparative analysis, states the Sri Lankan embassy in a press release. Placed under the Chatham House Rule to facilitate a free exchange of ideas, this initiative gathered a panel of practitioners and experts on Sri Lanka as well as non-regional specialists with expert knowledge of other post-conflict situations. The round table was opened by Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka who presented his views on the lessons learned from Sri Lanka's conflict by highlighting the complexity, unevenness and open-ended nature of the Sri Lankan scenario.