Sinhala-Muslim conflict in Sri Lanka. The conflict resolution approaches in Digana

Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - Region: South Asia, , language: English, abstract: The research analyzes the conflict resolution approaches by referring to the Digana Sinhala Muslim conflict. It specially investigates how the conflict resolution process happened related to the incident, what methods were used to address the conflict and how the conflict resolution impacts upon the people¿s behavior. Moreover, it will analyze the feasibility of conflict resolution mechanisms to address a conflict.

The first chapter of the research tries to discuss the topic in detail by providing an overview about the research.

In the second chapter, the literature, which is related to the research topic, will be discussed. It describes the theoretical, empirical, and methodological literature articles. Moreover, this chapter analyzes the research articles under the keywords, conflict, conflict resolution, and conflict resolution approaches.

The third chapter describes the methodology of the research. It includes the methods of data collection and the system of data analysis. The fourth chapter will present the data that gathered using the questionnaire and the interviews. The

fifth chapter comprises a brief overview as well as the findings of the research.

Both qualitative data and quantitative data were used. A semi-structured questionnaire containing open ended and close ended questions was used for gathering primary data. Secondary data were retrieved using articles, reports, journals and books. Gathered quantitative data were analyzed by using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and the content analysis utilized for qualitative data analysis.