Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, where he served as Professor and Chair of Political Science from 1972 to 1986. In 1978-83, he acted as an unofficial constitutional adviser to the President of Sri Lanka, was intermediary between the President and the Tamil United Liberation Front and vice-chair of the Presidential Commission on Development Councils (1979-80). He is author of several books on Sri Lankan politics.

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Accord Issue 4: Sri Lanka

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