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VOL. 3, ISSUE 1 (2018)
Emerged challenges against Gender in the context of war: A sociological study on the status of women, their role and encountered challenges during the time of war and further in the post war context in Sri Lanka
Authors
Wijewardhana BVN, Samarakoon MT
Abstract
Three decades of protracted conflict was ended eight years ago ushering peace to Sri Lanka also ending brutish terrorism. Nevertheless, it is notable in the present context that the civil community living in the North confronts directly or indirectly the repercussions of the war in this post war epoch. Hence it is obvious that Government’s effort to reconstitute the community is a vigorous challenge since the entire population became victims of the war whether they were involved in the battle or not. It is discernible that the community is fragmented being North and South through which the community in the North faces nuisance and harassments which has direct impact on the persistent ardency within the society indicating generalized incidences of criminal actions, rape, drug trafficking etc., Also a visible tendency is there to emerge unrest again during the post war era. The prevailed administrative systems followed effort to use guns and bullets having obscured through ethnic devidence inventing more problems to people in the North than southern people. The majority of the victims of the conflict were women and children. Also noticeable that far-reaching changes had happened on the lives of civil community and their role. It is clear that women in particular had confronted with varied crisis such as; Loss of husbands, inability to continue enduring livelihoods, affected pregnancies, health problems due to stress and suppression were among several other issues. However, the question is whether we could learnt lessons through the conflicts. Even now the emerging setbacks are viewed with restrictions of North and South. The best option to resolve the current disparities is to do a sociological assessment to create harmony between communities for which the ideological gap between North and Southern must be lessened through which the separatism and the ethnicity can be eradicated. If, reconciliation to be steered no separate land or Elam The main objective of this study is to determine the specific role performed by women during the war time and to ascertain their status after the war. In this respect, 151 women were selected randomly as research sample within 10 GN divisions in Thelippalai Police area in the district of Jaffna in Sri Lanka wherein the protracted war continued beyond 30 years. The said 151 women could share information through interviews, filling questionnaires, observations, and focused group discussions and through chain of interviews. The exposed information revealed that 99% of respondent women had been agonized psychologically, via sexual harassments, and to face physical hardships due to pregnancy and menstrual complicacies etc. Including psychical problems, too. It was also discovered that during the post war context too, women were suffering from stress disorders and catastrophic irregularities also divulging that even after 8 years of ending of the war women still live with the war mentality with feelings that they are living with the war even now. The research team desirably felt that it would be appropriate to assist women and children as a specific target group by introducing relevant health programmes, long term actions to address their psycho-social complicacies while inventing supportive environment also with avenues for self-employment etc. by state driven departments as well as non-governmental institutions.
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Pages:69-74
How to cite this article:
Wijewardhana BVN, Samarakoon MT "Emerged challenges against Gender in the context of war: A sociological study on the status of women, their role and encountered challenges during the time of war and further in the post war context in Sri Lanka". International Journal of Advanced Education and Research, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 69-74
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