Browsing by Author "Samarawickrama, R."

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A comparative study on the representation of Sri Lankan women in politics and the private sector
(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Priyadarshani, H.E.N.; Samarawickrama, R.
Although Sri Lankan society is considered male dominated, there is special honor attributed to women since ancient times and since of late, equal rights and privileges are granted to women. Yet, in the current society, more women tend to be employed in the private sector rather than exerting their rights of being engaged in politics. This study examines as to why women show an interest in employed in the private sector as opposed to being a political representative, although Sri Lankan women have the opportunity and privilege to do so. At the same time, the researcher proposes recommendations to overcome this tendency. Both primary and secondary data were used for this study. However, one of the limitations of the study is the inability to extract full information regarding political behavior of people. It was found out that more than being a political representative by obtaining a party membership, Sri Lankan women tend to engage in private sector employment. In fact, the representation of Sri Lankan women is high in several fields of the private sector. Some of the reasons identified to be deterrent towards women engaging in politics are: the current image of politicians and the negative attitude prevalent towards politics, the discrepancies in the political culture of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan society being patriarchal.
The influence of social media as a mode of campaigning during the 2015 presidential election in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Ukwatta, W.; Kumara, A.P.; Samarawickrama, R.
Facebook® is probably among the most popular and well known social media sites for election campaigns in different parts of the world. In Sri Lanka, internet usage has grown fast during the last few years. Prior to 2015, the main political parties in Sri Lanka hosted their party websites and a few national politicians maintained news websites. The 2015 presidential election was a turning point in the history of socio-political movements and Facebook election campaign. The present study aims to present the findings of a qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the Facebook pages of the two presidential candidates. The sample contained 150 Facebook postsduring the last two months of the 2015 Presidential election campaign in Sri Lanka. The objectives of the study were to identify the different elements of the statements of influence, campaign strategies by the users, and the additional roles that the Facebook pages play in the campaigns. The results indicate that Facebook have a significant effect on the political campaign during the presidential election of 2015. Findings show that both candidates used an emotional and motivational appeal to create social capital that the campaigns wished to control the message displayed on the pages by posting information and to present a personal image that revealed very little of their personal lives. Statistical analysis shows the numbers of comments and likes given to the posts were influenced by the element of persuasion used on the posts. Users view Facebook mainly as an channel to exert influence and as a means to gain social prestige.
A Study of South Indian Influences on the Politics in Sri Lanka During the Post Conflict Period (2009-2015)
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Priyadarshani, H.E.N.; Samarawickrama, R.
While an important place belongs to the relationships of Indo-Lanka since the past, the tendency, which can be seen currently, is the interference of South India alias Tamilnadu to the Sri Lanka politics after the war. The activities of several political parties especially in Tamilnadu, have made an influence for this situation. According to that making influences by South India to the decision of the central government in the Human Right Session of the United Nations, poser of fishermen of Lanka, attacks to the Sri Lankan pilgrims in India are some of the incidents, which take prominent place and because of these situations, brain-teasers have risen in the Sri Lankan politics. Therefore, this research is worthy and timely important in subjective wise. This study aimed to answer why the south Indian factor affects strongly towards the politics in Sri Lanka during the post conflict Period. This study study the south Indian interference results towards the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and study the Indo-Lanka relationship in association with the foreign policies. As the methodology of this survey, the secondary data were utilized and the limitations of the survey had to study since 2009 to 2014. Results and conclusions of this study, Indo-Lanka relationship takes a strong place and situated location of Sri Lanka in South Asia is also considered as a significant matter. Since the origin of the Tamils, who live in Sri Lanka occurred inside India, especially South India acts by introducing a part of the Tamil, who lives in North as a component of their own. And the politics in Tamilnadu stands as the representatives of the Sri Lankan Tamil based on the doubt of occurring unjust from the Sinhalese Nationals in Sri Lanka for the Tamils in the North and the incidents, which happened in the past. Under these circumstances, it can be indicated that Indian interference to the Sri Lankan politics is becoming strongly.