CONSENSUS ON UNITARY STATE & ABOLITION OF PRESIDENTIALISM NECESSARY FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION – ASANGA WELIKALA
Image: The absence of a policy and strategy of political communication aimed at sustaining public knowledge, engagement, and support for reform has led to the danger of anti reform politics staging a come back.
27/10/2017
It is silly in the extreme to think that having the words ‘unitary state’ in a piece of paper called the constitution magically protects us from state failure.
In Sri Lanka, the significance of these old labels is about their use as discursive weapons by ethnic-nationalist ideologues.
