Browsing by Author "Galagama, I.K."

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Impact of Conflict in Neighboring Countries: The Refugee Crises.
(Department of Philosophy, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka, 2017) Galagama, I.K.
Inclusion and Exclusion of Girls and Women in Armed Conflict of Sri Lanka
(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Galagama, I.K.
The women and girls’ participation in armed conflict is common and women have been playing in war and conflict as revolts, independence struggles, and war in many countries. Feminism centers on the idea that all women are oppressed by virtue of their gender. However, this does not necessarily imply that all women will be oppressed in the same way or that the origins of their oppression are the same. The main objective of the research was to examine specific effects of armed conflict with special reference to Sri Lanka. The specific objectives were, to determine the gendered impact of forced displacement in armed conflict, to examine the change in gender relations in armed conflict, and to discover which armed conflict increased gender based violence. The research being carried out implementing both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, informed by secondary literature. Secondary data will be solicited from books from the libraries, articles from the internet and journals and documentations on armed conflict on women and children. The finding revealed that sexual and gender based violence denies women security, the right to enjoy and forces them into subordinate positions compared to men. Moreover, forced migration is caused by armed conflict and has become common in the under developing countries like Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, finding shows that women become vulnerable to physical and to all forms of gender violence. As a conclusion, women and war have been challenged here because they ignore the active roles women have played in supporting conflict, both in combat and in acts of violence against civilian populations. Moreover, it is too narrowed to limit women as victims and men as warriors. Why because women play both roles in conflict situation supporting roles like intelligence, logistics, food, nursing as well as combat, bombing and suicide missions. However, there are reasons why women become a part of war. The reasons are various and majors are formed recruitment, oppression, and being valued in the society. Moreover, it is being found that same as men, women also share same danger and insecurity specifically being vulnerable and also sexual exploitation. Nevertheless, there are both physical and psychological effect faced by women during and after the war. Besides, it is obvious that women are not inherently peaceful and men are not inherently violence
The Status of Psychological and Physical Concerns on Utility of English Medium Undergraduates
(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Serasinghe, K.H.; Galagama, I.K.; Gunathilaka, S.N.
English being recognized as one of foremost communicational tool in various countries and it is most acceptable and popular language other than any other languages. According to Alfitri (2012) 375 million people use English as their first language and 750 million people use English as their second language. English play a major roll within individual lives and as a result of that, utility of English became a major part in each individuals. In academic field English language became prominent language in both staff and undergraduates and leading language of instruction in most of higher education institutions i.e. universities. The main objective of the research was to identify what are the major psychological and physical obstacles face by English medium student within the University premise and as specific objective to examine how demographic nature of student’s influence on their continuation of study in English medium. The research has carried out using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Purposive random sampling method being applied to collect primary data. The sample was consisted with 100 undergraduates under the department of Philosophy, University of Kelaniya. The collected qualitative data through questionnaire has being analysed using SPSS version 22 manually to draw up descriptive statistics. The research has found that, among the total sample 14% of the students face physical difficulties such as body shivering, drowsiness, suffocating, fast heartbeat, and swatting while 32% of students indicated mentally stressed such as feeling uneasy, confuse, shy, sleepy and anger. Therefore, it can be concluding as English become provocative language among the English medium undergraduates and that has been caused by psychological, physiological and demographic factors as well.