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Item Sri Lankan Female Domestic Workers in Middle East: Issues, Challenges and Way Forward(2nd International Studies Students’ Research Symposium – 2018, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Nadeesha Hashani, D.The movement of women as domestic workers is a disputable issue in Sri Lanka. Every year, over a million women migrate for employment, the majority of these migrants are domestic workers. Sri Lanka is known as one of the largest labour exporting countries in South Asia at present and the majority of labour migrants are women who migrate as domestic workers to the Middle East. According to reports, recent interviews and statements given by women who have worked in the Middle East as domestic workers are struggling with many issues. The main objective of this research is, to identify the problems faced by Sri Lankan women housemaids in the Middle East. And also suggest appropriate policy recommendations. Specific objectives are to identify the factors that affect or those issues, to make aware people about the issues facing women domestic workers in the Middle East. Primary and secondary data will be used in this research. Primary data will be collected through interviews and questioner filled by the victims who have experience in this situation. Secondary data collected through academic journals, books and other web-based academic publications which have been published relevant to this study. The qualitative methodology will be used to analyze these data. This study will be limited to the Middle East because most of the Sri Lankan women are working in the Middle East. This research is timely significant to Sri Lanka because in the one hand this kind of situations is badly affected to the bilateral relationships with Middle East countries. Therefore, not only this research significant and valid but also timelyItem The United States Involvement in the Middle East and Its Impact on Syrian Crisis(2nd International Studies Students’ Research Symposium – 2018, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) De Zoysa, G.D.N.Many of the scholars and world leaders consider the new reactions of the Syrian crisis in the Middle East. Collapse of the Arab Spring was the main reason for the uprising of the Syrian Civil war. The general strategic picture of Syria experiences the on-going full scale civil war between the Assad regime and its opposition’s forces. It caused the lack of employment, human right violation and other socio economic demographic factors. Because of that, some regional powers and global powers are involving to give their new answers. United States was the one countries that connected their actions for the Assad regime. Syria under the Assad regime has developed strong relations with Iran and Russia. These two countries are enemies of United States. The main reason for the United States intervention in Syria was the use of chemical weapons by Assad regime. In addition to destroy the Islamic rules in the Middle East. Another one is collapsing the Assad regime has been long standing goal of successes of United States. Therefore, this study examines to find out the economic, political, military impact of United States towards the Syrian crisis under the Presidents of Barak Obama and Donald Trump administrations. This study based on qualitative data methodology and relevant information’s are gathered through the websites, research articles-journals, and online magazines. This study attempts to explore the what are the effect of United States gets standing the Syria. On the other hand, this research further reveals the unstable situation in Syria due to the United States sanctions and its interest on Syria. This has negatively influence the challenge to other global powers and regional powers for building their security options in the Middle East. It may create the new situations between the Syria and United StatesItem The Application of Non-violence Approach for Settling Prolonged Civil Wars: Case Study of Syria(2nd International Studies Students’ Research Symposium – 2018, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Dilhani, R.W.T.By nature, wars are the component instrument and it is fundamentally political. The parts involved in war should concentrate all their energy towards the final aim: victory. Recently, wars become smaller than before but even so, they seem to be more intense and vicious as always. The local actors’ revolt in civil wars to achieve their diverse goals. The Middle East wanted for once beginning the wave of rebellion against their ruling regimes. The wave is called as “Arab Spring” and it has led to demonstrate plenty of pro-democracy changes across the whole Middle East continent within a short period. For decades currently, the international actors tried to bring an end state to civil wars through negotiated settlements instead of the military approach. Find a peaceful solution to the Syrian conflict seems very difficult. The economic, political or cultural issues do not seem to be viable barriers to a winning negotiated agreement and a mediation method has already been initiated inside Syria´s case. Therefore, the objective of this is to determine why a negotiated settlement has not been found in Syrian war. And also, to identify the importance of the use of non - violence negotiation approach rather than a military approach to the Syrian Civil War. The research takes up a descriptive analysis method under the qualitative approach to that end it gathers secondary data that assess conflict situation of Syria. The research findings manifest that how some actors had influenced to the development of the conflict making use of their status on the national and international stage. And also, conflict from different perspectives have been disclosed additional reasons that contribute to the failure of the negotiation process in Syria. Therefore, there should be a proper mechanism to bring a successful non-violence approach for Syrian war. If the negotiated application can be succeeded within this civil war, its results will be answerable for other same situations in the world