Post-tsunami Sri Lanka and the Ethnic Conflict A Critical Analysis of Vulnerability

This dissertation intends to evaluate the relationship between natural disasters and conflict using the discourse of vulnerability analysis. This study will analyze first, whether this discourse is useful in understanding the events occurring in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, namely the resumption of the conflict, and second, how it informs Sri Lanka’s prospects for resolving its multifaceted goals of reconstruction, development and peace. This dissertation argues that vulnerability analysis will be useful in understanding the effects of natural disasters on Sri Lanka’s political situation as vulnerability analysis implicates the political, social and historical issues of country, moving the discourse away from a scientific and technical approach to natural disaster rehabilitation. This dissertation shows that one cannot ignore the role o