Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka
by
Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort...