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Using careful historical research and analysis of policy documents, this book explains the origin and evolution of the political conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern Provinces. The conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world's most intractable contemporary armed struggles. The internationally banned LTTE is considered the prototype of modern terrorism. It is known to have introduced suicide bombing to the world, and recently became the first terrorist organization ever to acquire an air force. The book argues that the Sri Lankan conflict cannot be adequately understood from the dominant bipolar analysis that sees it as a primordial ethnic conflict between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority. The book broadens the discourse providing a multipolar analysis of the complex interplay of political-economic and cultural forces at the local, regional and international levels including the roles of India and the international community. Overall, the book presents a conceptual framework useful for comparative global conflict analysis and resolution, shedding light on a host of complex issues such as terrorism, civil society, diasporas, international intervention and secessionism

Preliminary Material /C. Bailliet -- Introduction /Cecilia M. Bailliet -- Chapter 1. The Concept Of Security In International Law Relating To Armed Conflicts /Marco Sassòli -- Chapter 2. International Security And International Organisations: Considerations Under International Law /Marco Odello -- Chapter 3. General Principles Of International Humanitarian And Human Rights Law: A Tool To Overcome The War-And-Peace Divide In International Law /Ulf Häußler -- Chapter 4. A Critical Decision Point On The Battlefield – Friend, Foe Or Innocent Bystander /Matthew W. Ezzo and Amos N. Guiora -- Chapter 5. The Obligation To Remove And Destroy Anti-Personnel Mines And Explosive Remnants Of War In Peace Operations /Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen -- Chapter 6. A New Treaty Banning Cluster Munitions: The Interplay Between Disarmament Diplomacy And Humanitarian Requirements /Gro Nystuen -- Chapter 7. Private Versus Citizen-Soldiers: New Mercenarism In A Just-War Framework /Lene Bomann-Larsen -- Chapter 8. The "Unrule" Of Law: Unintended Consequences Of Applying The Responsibility To Prevent To Counterterrorism, A Case Study Of Colombia'S Raid In Ecuador /Cecilia M. Bailliet -- Chapter 9. Democratic Security /Christopher Kutz -- Chapter 10. Global Procedural Rights And Security /Larry May -- Chapter 11. Women'S Security/State Security /Naomi Cahn -- Chapter 12. Security In A "Warming World": Competences Of The Un Security Council For Preventing Dangerous Climate Change /Christina Voigt -- Chapter 13. Environmental Security And The Un Security Council /Jo Stigen and Ole Kristian Fauchald -- Chapter 14. Pragmatic Law For International Security /Sean Kanuck -- List Of Contributors /C. Bailliet -- Index /C. Bailliet.

Orientalism and urban design in Mandatory Lydda -- From al-Ludd to Lod -- Architecture and the struggle over geography -- Territorialization and the city's geopolitics of fear -- Agents, enemies, and the privatization of space -- Walking, inhabiting, narrating