Author: Jason G. Stone | Journal of Democracy

Jason G. Stone is a doctoral student in political science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is coauthor, with Neil DeVotta, of “Jathika Hela Urumaya and Ethno-religious Politics in Sri Lanka,” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 1.

April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2

Shifting Tides in South Asia: Sri Lanka’s Postwar Descent

Jason G. Stone

With the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in a 26-year civil war, Sri Lanka had a chance for genuine reconciliation, but that chance is being squandered by the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.