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The laws in Sri Lanka mandate the allocation of state resources, including access to land, business, educational and employment opportunities on the basis of the population ratio of different communities in the country's districts. Minority communities located in the north are therefore seized with a demographic anxiety over their access to and control of land and resources. These anxieties have been further sharpened in the process of return and rehabilitation of communities displaced by the civil war and known officially as internally displaced persons (IDP). The article explores how these anxieties have played out with Muslim and Tamil Christian communities in Mannar district located in the north west of Sri Lanka in the nation's Northern Province. The article is based on a a case study of the dispute between the Uppukulam and the Joseph Vaz Nagar fishermen over the use of a fishing pier. It also examines the role of the state, the courts and the church in locking these communities in competition over access to a source of livelihood.

There is a sharp rise in sexual violence against women and girls over the last decade in India. The 2015–2017 National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB) data suggest that the rise in sexual violence in different states in India ranges between 30–95 per cent. Though there are several literatures to understand and explain the phenomenon of sexual violence, there are dimensions of sexual violence that remain unexplored leading to substantive knowledge gaps. The article attempts to examine the knowledge gaps and understand the phenomenon of rise in sexual violence. It discusses relevance of patriarchal dominance theory and social disintegration theory to explain the phenomenon. The article concludes that patriarchal dominance theory is the basis for understanding the deep-rooted causes of gender violence as exemplified by rising instances of sexual violence. However, the cultural spillover concept, where the general acquiescence to public violence as illustrated in the high number of elected officials with criminal records, or a corporate decision to make free data accessible to 90 per cent of India's population by 2017 shows discernable links with the rise in sexual violence.