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Impact of Maltreatment: Psychosocial Experience of Parentless School Going Adolescents

Hariharathamotharan, S.; Abyesinghe, D.; Jeevasuthan, S. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

The present study examines the impact of maltreatment among the Parentless School Going Adolescents (PSGAs) and their psychosocial experiences in Northern Provence in Sri Lanka. Prevalence of PSGAs’ exposure to maltreatment ...
Land Acquisition Policy and Social Violence: A Study of Kakinada Special Economic Zone, Andhra Pradesh State, India

Muralikrishna, G. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

The social violence unleashed by developmental projects has reached unimaginable proportions in the developing societies like India with land acquisition, displacement, dispossession, loss of livelihoods being the main ...
Rumors as a Political Instrument: Transformation of Interpersonal Rivalry to Inter-Ethnic Riot: A Study Based on Riot in Mawanella 2001

Gunasekara, S.; Epa, H. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

The rumor is one important means of mobilizing force for conflict. It work as a justification for resorting to violence. The problem was “increasing the density of the ethnic riot by rumors”. Objective was finding out ...
Impact of food pattern and Socio-economic Factors on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in North Central Province

Weerasekara, C.B.M.P.D.; Sulochana, M. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

High prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease was identified in North Central Province in the last few decades. Causative factor for Chronic Kidney Disease in North Central Province is still unknown. Therefore, main objective ...
From reconciliation to National Development through PModel Tourist Zone in Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

Liyanage, A.; Seneratne, P.; Herath, B. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

After experiencing an ethnic based civil war for 30 years and unfulfilled promises by authorities after that, Eastern province of Sri Lanka is still far behind the national development efforts. While being forced back ...
Effective understanding; attempt of using motion pictures to direct Sri Lankans towards Post-war Reconciliation with Reference of “Him. Her.The other” and “Demons in Paradise”

Senarath, S.; Jayasekara, S.; Boteju, I.; Gunathilaka, D. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

Visual media is a universal language. It addresses almost every living species on the world. The two films “Him. Her. The other” by Prasanna Vitanage, Vimukthi Jayasundera and Asoka Handagama, and “Demons in the Paradise” ...
A Study of Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Community Development Process in Rural Areas in Sri Lanka

Panampitiya, W.M.G. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

Community development is a significant development strategy which has been discussed in the development discourse to address small social groups in the society. Community development is a social process of where community ...
Can Craft Consciousness Disband Ethnic Consciousness? Case-study on Organic Reconciliation Process of Traditional Handicraft Makers from Batticaloa District

Perera, U.M.; Dhanushka, M.D.; Gunathilake, N. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

Any form of armed conflict creates a cleavage in the social, political and economic spheres of people in a given society. In the post-war Sri Lanka, the SLFP and present governments have employed numerous developmental ...
A Criminological Study on the Nature of Human Trafficking in Sri Lanka

Ranaweera, K.G.N.U.; Buddhadasa, M.P.A.A.; Rathnayake, S. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

“Human Trafficking” means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse ...
The effects of Socio-economic Status (SES) on the Developing Neural Networks and Plasticity of the Brain

Kumaranayake, A.R. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

This review study aimed to analyse and synthesize the available findings on effects of socioeconomic status on the development of neural networks and plasticity of the brain. Adopting an approach to discuss the diagnostic ...
Solid Waste Management Through Community Mobilisation: A Case Study of Communicable Disease Management and Control in Sri Lanka.

Karunathilake, K. (2016)

Dengue is a communicable disease which spreads through a virus that contaminates through a mosquito (Aedes species) mainly breeds in many discarded containers. As a result of modernisation and commercialisation of peoples’ ...
Efficacy of Constitutional Reform on Strengthening Good Governance Practice: A Case Study on 19th Amendment to the Constitution on Accountable Governance in Sri Lanka

Abeysinghe, C. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

During the recent past, issues related to the governance have been gaining much attention among the academics as well as policy makers. The failure of achieving anticipated development objectives and the burden of the newly ...
Disaster Management Issues of Marginalized People in Flood Affected Areas in the City of Colombo and Its Surroundings: The Cases of Colombo and Gampaha Districts of Sri Lanka

Sakalasooriya, N. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This Study investigates the major issues of communities who have settled in flood prone areas in Colombo city and surrounding rural periphery in Gampaha District. Around 302,000 people in 22 districts in Sri Lanka have ...
Living with risk and socioeconomic obligations; a case study from landslide prone areas of Mathale District, Sri Lanka

Wijesinghe, M. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Disaster risk management is reducing hazards, and vulnerabilities while enhancing capacities of a particular system or population. Vulnerability of a particular community depends on multiple factors such as geography, ...
Community Participation for Disaster Risk Reduction

Hemathilaka, J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in Sri Lanka in May 2016 have left 71 people dead, 127 missing, and over 319,000 displaced from homes while over a 427,000 people are affected by the adverse weather. This ...
School disaster safety” an investment on sustainable development

Weweldeniya, W.A. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Frequency and Severity of disaster events in Sri Lanka have shown an increasing trend during last two decades. Natural hazards such as Floods, Cyclones, Drought, Landslides, and Coastal Erosion have negatively impacted the ...
Strategies of Reconciliation through Education and Research

Vitharana, S.; Sumedha, K.; Jayaweera, S.; Manuratne, P. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Postwar Sri Lanka has explored several modes and models of reconciliation as part of its effort to address the deep ethnic divide that still affects the country. Ultra-nationalist groups continue to create discourses and ...
Social control against the locational waste disposal and cultural practices

Jayaweera, S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Cultural practices rooted in a certain community affect environmental issues and related human interactions. Colombo city is the central business hub in Sri Lanka and provide dwelling places for more than one million people. ...
The Spatial Changes in Water Quality in the Upper Stream of the Polgolla Reservoir Catchment

Jayarathne, E.G.M. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Polgolla Reservoir Catchment (PRC) is distributed in the Upper Mahaweli River basin, Central Province of Sri Lanka. The catchments of Major Rivers in Sri Lanka are being polluted due to various factors that made by human ...
Comparative study on the adsorptive behavior of As (III) and Cr (III) ions from aqueous solution on to sawdust and rice husk biochar

Gunatilake, S.K. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Sorption capacity of two different biochar (saw dust and rice straw) was evaluated in the recovery of arsenic and chromium from aqueous solutions. Biochar from rice straw and saw dust were obtained from pyrolysis of biomass ...

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