In a NYT op-ed, co-chairman of the International Crisis Group Chris Patten discusses the choices facing Sri Lankan voters during the 2010 presidential elections, in the wake of violent ethnic conflict.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka, writes how the island-nation fought terrorism for twenty-five years and is now turning attention toward winning the peace.

Is a lasting peace in Sri Lanka possible?

"A mass slaughter of civilians will take place Tuesday at noon. And everyone knows it."

A profile of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist terrorist group that seeks an independent state in areas in Sri Lanka inhabited by ethnic Tamils.

South Asia expert Teresita Schaffer says a decisive victory for Congress Party in Indian elections and a possible end to the civil war in Sri Lanka could bolster a region buffeted by conflict.

Sri Lanka's government has scored a string of wins in its long-standing civil war with Tamil militants. But it faces the challenge of integrating its Tamil minority.

This International Crisis Group report examines factors that undermine development in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province and recommends new policies to help areas of Sri Lanka affected by the war.

Arundhati Roy writes that the Sri Lankan government is committing crimes based on deeply ingrained racial prejudice and is effectively hiding them from international press and public scrutiny.

Post-LTTE Tamil politics will have to move beyond ethnic and territorial concerns to forge solidarity among minorities, in order to reframe the 'national question' in Sri Lanka, says Ahilan Kadirgamar.

South Asia, despite its many functioning democracies, continues to be torn by conflict and vulnerable to military intervention in politics.

Sri Lanka democracy activist Ahilan Kadirgamar paints a bleak picture for the country in 2008 after the collapse of a six-year-old truce between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers.

In this policy research working paper, the World Bank aims to examine the resulting impact of climate change on hydropower projects. Three projects are considered: India, Sri Lanka, and
Vietnam.

In some South and Southeast Asia countries, worrisome signs of a slide toward militarism in a region where democracy had planted some roots.

As the cease-fire between the Tamil Tiger terrorist group and the Sri Lankan government crumbles, the South Asian nation is on the verge of being engulfed in another round of its decades-old civil war.