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“You start something and it seeps out” – Ahavoli Organisational Slogan Family counselling and working with Internally Displaced People (IDP) are the main focus areas of the organisation. Based in a part of Sri Lanka that has been hugely affected by fighting, the organisation believes that implementing training programmes, workshops and counselling programme are the [...]
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Ahavoli Family Services Centre
Council of Non Governmental Organisations – Jaffna
The Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (Council of NGOs) – Jaffna was established in 1990 to make people aware of social issues such as war, hunger, human rights violations and injustices. Other than that lobbing is one of the main focus area of the organisation. Working with IDPs is one of the interesting areas and they [...]
Hope of peace in Sri Lanka
The armed conflict in Sri Lanka is over, but still the government has not given a satisfactory political solution for the Tamils who live in North and East Sri Lanka. After 30 years, people have to face and deal with so many new things – such as a new governing system and a new laws. [...]
Sri Lankan interpretation of R&B
The R&B star Akon was planning to hold a concert in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the 24th of April and around 12,000 of Akon’s fans were hoping to enjoy the sound of R&B music. But the video, ‘Sexy (Bitch) Chick”, which included a visual of a Buddha Statue as background to a scene, was disturbing [...]
Samadeepa
Through two national networks of community based and non-governmental organisations, Samadeepa have been working towards positive conflict transformation in Sri Lanka. Their efforts have been focused on the promotion of peace and good governance, the strengthening of civil society, and the empowerment of the nation’s people. Video interview with Mr. Chandrarathna Bandara of Samadeepa. Buddhika Harshadeva, [...]
Centre for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation (CPBR)
CPBR aims to bridge divisions in Sri Lanka by creating networked peacebuilding groups in diverse areas of the country, simultaneously empowering communities to address their own needs and raising awareness of the similarity of such needs across the country’s ethnic boundaries. CPBR conducts workshops, dialogues, gatherings and camps on peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Through these [...]
Batticaloa Befrienders
This well-established organisation runs various projects to help Muslim and Tamil communities escape the cycle of violence in Eastern Sri Lanka. By working to provide better lives for young people from both communities, they create hope for a peaceful future. Batticaloa Befrienders has been working for 16 years to enhance peaceful relations between Muslim and [...]
Peace and Health Progressing Organisation (PHPO)
PHPO perceives the lack of interaction between ethnicities as a main cause of the conflict in Sri Lanka, and intends to promote national integration through their organisational work. PHPO was initiated by the Muslim community, but today staff are drawn from all of Sri Lanka’s ethnic groups. PHPO conducts peace building and conflict transformation programs [...]
Jeewa Shakthi Foundation
Jeewa Shakthi started as a group effort to find a solution to the extremely high suicide rate in the Thanamalvila area, they concluded that the root causes were not only conflicts on a personal level, but those that existed on a community level across Sri Lanka. As a result they began to work on achieving [...]
Human Resource and Environmental Protection Organisation (HREPO)
HREPO aims to improve peace and security through environmental sustainability and the fostering of inter-ethnic relationships. They perceive poverty as one of the main causes for conflict in Sri Lanka, and believe therefore the poverty alleviation is a vital component of peacebuilding. They also act for environmental protection and, in relation to this and poverty [...]
