Art and Culture as a Tool for Peace Building
Efforts towards conflict resolution and peace building have led to several constructive and innovative methods that create deep and lasting social change. The use of art and culture in this respect has evolved as a constructive, creative and workable strategy in peace building efforts. Click her for more...



Editorial - Where Social Justice and Peacebuilding Meet
In his 'Hands-On – PCIA', a Handbook for peace and conflict impact assessment, Kenneth Bush (St. Paul's University, Ottawa, Canada) noted 'The “surprise” about violent conflict is not that it occurs, but that we watch it develop for so long, and do nothing about it. . .' There are clearly external factors that can aggravate violent conflict, but so too are there internal issues of social injustice that can create conditions for violence. Click here for more...



Right to Information and Implication for Bangladesh
The Bangladesh National Parliament on March 29, 2009 passed the much awaited bill on Right to Information (RTI) paving the way for people to get information from public authority as a right. By enactment of the RTI law, the present government made an important statement in support of transparency and accountability of all public functions and authority. Click here for more...



Media Freedom in Sri Lanka
Media freedom in Sri Lanka has been systemically suppressed from the early 1960s when the primary private newspaper company was taken-over by the state. Since then, state interference with the print media has been consistent and continuous with newspapers having to close down for daring to transgress state sentiments. Click here for more...