Prospects for good governance and national reconciliation post the August 17th elections
- - on 11/17/2015
Featured image courtesy Newsfirst.
The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again,
I heard them say,
Don’t dwell on what
Has passed away
Or what is yet to be.
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen[1]
‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change Do you understand?
Giuseppe di Lampedusa[2]
Preamble
The genesis of this paper was a recent trip we took to Lanka as election observers for the August parliamentary elections. During the elections and after we had the opportunity not only to visit many cities in the north, east and the south but to speak to a cross-section of its inhabitants. What follows is the result of our observations, our reading and our discussions about Lanka, not just during our recent trip but also in the course of the past decade.
