Sri Lanka Dialogue Project - Phase III

• Research unit: PHRD
• Project number: 532961

Key words (English)

SLDP, Sri Lanka, Religion

Short description (English)

The Sri Lanka Dialogue Project (phase III) contributes to conflict prevention and transformation with long-term effects in Sri Lanka. The SLDP engages members of the Buddhist Sangha as well as members of the Tamil (Hindu and Christian) and Muslim community in order to rebuild confidence and relations between communities, overcome mutual stereotypes, fears and threat-perceptions, and aims at changing attitudes and behaviour with regard to political settlements, initiatives aimed at contributing towards the transformation of conflicts that arise as the result of clashes between different values and social orders. The SLDP is one of the Swiss initiatives aimed at contributing towards the transformation of confiicts that arise as the result of clashes between different values and social orders.

Project aims (English)

The specific goals are:
1) encourage the interaction between SLDP participants on specific practical issues with the aim of contributing to the lifting up of political obstacles;
2) develop a common understanding among SLDP participants for the need of a concrete V political settlement and have the SLDP participants diffusing the idea among their constituencies;
3) encourage exchange with members from Buddhist communities/constituencies in South and Southeast Asia, in order to help SLDP participants to develop a critical and broader perspective on the importance of political arrangements for a peaceful co-existence in Sri Lanka.