Category: Reports

The Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) is releasing its latest report titled, ‘A Phantom that is Real: Persisting Culture of Surveillance and Intimidation in the North-East’.  This report sheds light on the prevailing patterns of surveillance, intimidation, and arrests that activists, civil society members, and journalists face in the North-East of Sri Lanka, and is one…

April 9, 2018 – Today, the Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research launched a new series in the Stories of Resilience project titled, ‘Stories of Vaharai‘. The series focuses on highlighting the diverse experiences of Tamil survivors of the conflict from in and around the Vaharai region in the East.The stories featured present alternative narratives from survivors…

February 19, 2018 – Today, the Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research released a new set of stories as part of the ‘Stories of Mullivaikkaal’ series in the ‘Stories of Resilience’ project. The new stories released once again demonstrate the strength and pain of Tamil women who survived the last phase of the war, and the ways…

(Jaffna/Washington, October 4, 2017) The Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) and People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) today release, “Normalising the Abnormal: The Militarisation of Mullaitivu,” a report examining the extent and impact of militarisation in Mullaitivu District. The report accompanies an interactive online map illustrating the extent of militarisation in Mullaitivu…

Report Release Civil Security Department: The Deep Militarisation of the Vanni   September 20, 2017    ACPR today releases, “Civil Security Department: The Deep Militarisation of the Vanni”, a report examining the Civil Security Department’s establishment in the Vanni and its impact. Eight years after the war ended, and despite multiple promises to the international community to…