Lost in transition: linking war, war economy and post-war crime in Sri Lanka

Scholars continue to draw attention to the link between the war economy and post-war crime. The majority of these studies are about cases of civil war that ended with peace agreements. Sri Lanka’s civil war ended with a military victory for the state armed forces; thus, it can help shed new light on the above link. Situated in the war economy perspective, this article investigates the dominant types of crimes reported from post-war Sri Lanka and the mechanisms linking them with the war economy. The culture of impunity, continued militarisation and enduring corruption are identified as key mechanisms through which the war economy and post-war bodily and material crime are linked. It suggests, although the ‘victors’ peace’ achieved by state armed forces was able to successfully dismantle the extra-legal war economy run by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, it was responsible for promoting criminality in the post-war period. Overall, this points to the urgency of breaking away from legacies of the state war economy in the post-war period, before introducing programs of longer term political and economic reform

The pre-history of this blog

In my last post I mentioned that some of the ideas at the origin of this blog have been 'bugging' me for quite a while. I have decided to go 'back to the roots' for just this one post because I think it makes some of my ideas and questions a little clearer. During the final year of my undergraduate degree in Modern History and Modern Languages (French) in 2004/2005 I chose a Modern Languages Special Subject entitled "Advanced French Translation: theory and practice" taught by Toby Garfitt & M..

Getting started

When I submitted my project for this blog to the editorial board of hypothèses for approval, the idea of giving some kind of shape to my thoughts and musings on history, translation and the links between the two had been on my mind for a while. The kind of questions I want to pursue are not directly part of my PhD work, not finalised enough for  publication on their own, yet too pressing for me to be left aside completely and forgotten. Hence this blog where I aim to post about once a week, i..

Getting started

When I submitted my project for this blog to the editorial board of hypothèses for approval, the idea of giving some kind of shape to my thoughts and musings on history, translation and the links between the two had been on my mind for a while. The kind of questions I want to pursue are not directly part of my PhD work, not finalised enough for  publication on their own, yet too pressing for me to be left aside completely and forgotten. Hence this blog where I aim to post about once a week, i..

The pre-history of this blog

In my last post I mentioned that some of the ideas at the origin of this blog have been 'bugging' me for quite a while. I have decided to go 'back to the roots' for just this one post because I think it makes some of my ideas and questions a little clearer. During the final year of my undergraduate degree in Modern History and Modern Languages (French) in 2004/2005 I chose a Modern Languages Special Subject entitled "Advanced French Translation: theory and practice" taught by Toby Garfitt & M..

Abstract

Ethernet is pervasive. This is due in part to its ease of use. Equipment can be added to an Ethernet network with little or no manual configuration. Furthermore, Ethernet is self-healing in the event of equipment failure or removal. However, there are scenarios where a local event can lead to network-wide packet loss and congestion due to slow or faulty reconfiguration of the spanning tree. Moreover, in some cases the packet loss and congestion may persist indefinitely. To address these problems, we introduce the EtherFuse, a new device that can be inserted into an existing Ethernet to speed the reconfiguration of the spanning tree and prevent congestion due to packet duplication. EtherFuse is backward compatible and requires no change to the existing hardware, software, or protocols. We describe a prototype EtherFuse implementation and experimentally demonstrate its effectiveness. Specifically, we characterize how quickly it responds to network failures, its ability to reduce packet loss and duplication, and its benefits on the end-to-end performance of common applications