Abstract:
In contemporary discourse, the most important operation in post-war reconciliation is
addressing the root causes of conflict and removing them from the conflict-affected
society and ensuring justice, accountability and transparency through truth-telling and
forgiveness. Some leading scholars such as Van der Merwe and Johan Gaining have
provided a conceptual and theoretical framework to this argument. According to the
arguments of scholars such as Barbara Walter, Collier and Hoeffler, economic
development too has its significance in post-war reconciliation. In this context, the
paper focused on the following research problem: how does Sri Lankan civil society
consolidate economic development, in the process of post-war reconciliation? This
research adopted a pluralistic research methodology.
