December 2022
Reading Time: 12 min read Toyesha Padukkage examines the importance of COP267 climate summit and its key achievements and shortcomings.
Reading Time: < 1 min read The purpose of this Special Provisions draft Bill is to provide a legal framework to deal with marine pollution prevention in Sri Lanka. This draft Bill seeks to transform several IMO conventions relating to marine pollution into national legislation.
October 2022
Reading Time: 8 min read Alisha Rajaratnam examines the nature of Illegal, unreported & unregulated fishing (IUU), and considers Sri Lanka’s efforts in managing IUU fishing.
Reading Time: 9 min read Toyesha Padukkage examines the importance of COP26 climate summit, global climate action leading to COP26, key achievements and shortcomings of COP26, and what needs to be addressed at the next climate summit (COP27).
January 2022
Reading Time: < 1 min read LKI’s Malinda Meegoda examines the historical and strategic reasons behind the North Korean nuclear weapons program and explores options on how to manage the ongoing nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
December 2020
Reading Time: 9 min read LKI’s interview with H.E. Haidari, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, shared insights on the historic linkages between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan and the way forward on issues of shared interest and concern in South Asia.
April 2020
Reading Time: < 1 min read LKI’s Malinda Meegoda explores Autonomous weapons in the South Asian context: Risks and countermeasures in the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report titled The Impact of Artificial Intelligence On Strategic Stability And Nuclear Risk.
March 2020
Reading Time: < 1 min read With China increasing its soft power and foreign aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka’s experience of BRI projects provides useful lessons for others. See this recently published Chatham House paper on Chinese Investment and the BRI in Sri Lanka.
August 2019
Reading Time: < 1 min read In this selected paper, LKI’s Natalie Klein utilises a stakeholder identification theory, to identify and prioritise the interests of different actors from the perspective of the judge in reaching decisions to advance the goals of UNCLOS dispute settlement.
July 2019
Reading Time: < 1 min read In a chapter on the book titled ‘Radicalization in South Asia : Context, Trajectories and Implications’, LKI’s Anishka De Zylva and Barana Waidyatilaka looks at counter-radicalization in Sri Lanka.
