Sachithanandam Sathananthan is Chairman of Mandru (Institute for Alternative Development and Regional Cooperation) which he co-founded in 1989. Dr Sathananthan is the Founder-Secretary of the Action Group of Tamils in Colombo (AGOTIC). His publications and research interests cover national movements, democratisation and nation-building in South Asia. He is the principal author of The Elusive Dove: An assessment of conflict resolution initiatives in Sri Lanka, 1957 to 1996 (Mandru, 1996).

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Accord Issue 4: Sri Lanka

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