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This article explores the multi-faceted, contextual, and ambivalent character of support relations between the LTTE and Tamil civilians. It demonstrates how distinct support patterns emerge from particular power constellations and manifestations of violence in the localities where respondents lived and interacted with the LTTE. The social ties between respondents whose political socialization was shaped by the escalation of the conflict and who, later, lived in government controlled areas were predominately based on a sense of political representation and characterized by subtle notions of socio-spatial distance; by contrast, for interviewees living in militarily contested zones, fear and coercion but also affective connections to LTTE members played a crucial role in their interactions with and orientations towards the LTTE. Lastly, in LTTE controlled areas, notions of support oscillated between perceptions of effective service provision and fear of recruitment.

The 1992 Helsinki Document, "The Challenges of Change" provided the then CSCE with the political mandate to deploy peacekeeping operations (PKO), but no OSCE PKO has been mandated since the Organization adopted its norms in 1992. … On the other hand facing pressure to respond adequately to concrete crises, participating States of the CSCE/OSCE had been quite willing to establish field operations [OSCE missions] which, due to their nature as well as their functions, can be defined as PKOs. Following this line of reasoning, it could, thus, be argued that the OSCE is already playing a role in peacekeeping, albeit without officially declaring its activities as peacekeeping. (CORE WP/Pll)