. >>> sri lanka's new government is under pressure in its reconciliation policies.seven years after the end of the brutal civil war, it is building bridges is tantamount to treason. >> singly the ancient name describes sri lanka. but the new campaign plays on the words lion and blood. a founding member of a 40-year-old nationalist organization. he said that they have been pushed too far. >> we cannot be taken away from them. and also they are the language, and also the culture, and they say they have become a danger. >> and reacting is what they call the buddhist force outside of a court hearing recently. they were protesting against the arrest of their leaders on treasured up charge. he was accused of going against the court. >> this is the white man's law. we insulted the court, so put all these buddhist in jail. >> for some the campaign is dangerous especially as sri lanka begins rebuilding itself after 25 years of war between government troops and tamil community, who wanted a separate state. >> they have over 40,000 likes on their facebook page. this is not onl

sri lanka, and canada, for many, many decades. he has a role of both a diplomat and historian and academic. i asked him to share with us some of his insights related to the history modus operandi for example. as well as how to end insurgency and waves of terrorism in his country. perhaps this would be a lesson for some other nations to follow. >> thank you very much, professor alexander. first, may i ask your indulgence to say it is a great privilege and honor for me to be here. i'm particularly grateful for giving me this opportunity to sit on the panel of distinguished scholars. with that said i must state that i'm here not as the sri lankan embassy but scholar who has studied the conflict for years. the diplomatic mantle that i'm wearing is very new. i am more comfortable in the academic cloak i have been wearing for nearly four decades. as a historian, prospect is keith to track future prospects from this perspective, terrorism is highly relevant to the discussion today. carried out an armed struggle for nearly 30 years. it wa

in independent sri lanka.urthermore, the colonial state in sri lanka, and the reaction of the state to tam i l dissident a certainly decrgree legitimacy to their struggle at the beginning. another key feature of the organization was the politics. it was a tightly-knit organization and any dissenting view within the organization was seve severely stopped. in the behavior of the ltt, military strategy always took precedent over the political strategy. totalistic perception of nationalism of the ltt prevented it from having a political dialogue with the performance forces in the south. at the same time, the ltt maintain a widespread international network. military defeat of ltt has been analyzed from different perspectives. the number of factors were identified with military strategy -- with military strategic factors given primacy in that the role of the political and military leadership of sri lanka forces affect a military strategy of sri lankan forces and their dedication, and the newly acquired fire power wi

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during his four-day visit to sri lanka, the u.n.issioner for human rights heard the desperation of mothers looking for their children. >> translator: they are trying to say they are not there, but where they are not there, where? what happened? what did they do to him? >> reporter: he said people like [ inaudible ] must be the focus of any mechanism to bring justice after sri lanka's long conflict. >> victims have to be at the center of all processes, and victims on all sides, all sides, not to privilege certain victims ov overothers, all sides. >> reporter: hussein was here to monitor progress on a resolution passed at the u.n. human right's council in geneva last year. in the north he met those waiting to return to their homes after 25 years in temporary shelters. >> they are desperate so that as many of them can go home. and this can be sorted out. >> reporter: he came here and said he would listen to everyone for people who's family members are missing as well as those living in welfare camps like this for over 25 years, because

so i have a lawyer, actuallyly who moved to sri lanka. and he has about 15 guys who work with him who are the experts in constitutional law and they'll go, you ow, in mac mccain versus arkansas 1964 single -- >> jimmy: they're in sri lanka, they know about american law? >> yes, they've just very cheap, that's why we use them. >> jimmy: i see. [ laughter ] >> in case you think that's an offensive accent, it is the one i used for king julian in "madagascar." that's based on that lawyer. [ cheers and applause ] so we're told by lawyers, whatever you do, do not challenge anyone to a fight. so i'm in this cage. and my boyfriend comes into the cage. and there are 2,000 locals from texarkana. i don't know if you know texarkana. >> jimmy: i do, yeah. >> they're interesting locals. a few hundred of them have just been released from jail. nice swastikas on their head. >> yeah. not exactly fans. and i have the fight with this boyfriend character in thehe vie. and i panic. and when i panic i often do not very rational things. and so i said, okay, who

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as far as sri lanka goes, i think it is important to have some historical perspective. from someone who spent decades as a historian to deal with identity crisis, for example, security and peace issues. the deputy chief of the embassy is uniquely qualified to deal with this with both sri lanka, and canada, for many, many decades. he has a role of both a diplomat and historian and academic. i asked him to share with us some of his insights related to the history modus operandi for example. as well as how to end insurgency and waves of terrorism in his country. perhaps this would be a lesson for some other nations to ollow. >> thank i very much -- thank you very much, professor alexander. first, may i ask your indulgence to say it is a great privilege and honor for me to be here. graflte for ly giving me this opportunity to sit on the panel of distinguished zollars w that said i must state that i'm here not as the sri lankan embassy but scholar who has studied the conflict for years. the diplomatic mantle that i'm wearing is very new. i am more comfortable in the academic

hey guys. [ cheers and applause ] >> so my dad is from sri lanka. my dad's from sri lanka and he's the one i think who taught me about story-telling. so it's not fact checked, this story. so my dad came from sri lanka in 1964 on the same plane as the beatles. he flew from london to new york and he says he heard a little party going on up front, but he didn't really know what's happening. and this is the days when you would -- it's not jetway, there's a staircase out to the runway, right? >> seth: sure. >> he comes to the top of the staircase and there's a crowd and he says to the lady, wow, they treat foreign students here so well! [ laughter ] >> seth: that is not true. >> that is true. first -- >> seth: is it true? sir, is it true? >> it is true. >> seth: okay. [ laughter ] i believe him. so you know as a writer, you went through -- and this really broke my heart when i heard you wrote a first draft of this book, 600 pages -- >> 604. >> seth: and you lost it. >> yeah. yeah. >> seth: you had it -- explain how you lose -- i mean, first of all -- yea

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jihad against the soviet union, and struggle in sri lanka started the fourth wave. the post 9/11 is the five wave ask that is combining history, and theology, matched by utilization of the information technology of the fourth industrial revolution. it's translated interest a stink ecology, -- of violence. our knowledge and response -- as we are struggling between naming thephone na, knowing and it having an action plan on the basis of an an aligned strategy to distract, overcome and destroy the fifth wave of terrorism. symptoms are often -- causes are rarely confronted. voices of analysis are not followed. and there's no common framework. without a common framework on intelligence, that drives use of force, we keep repeating mistakes. while the enemy learns fast, we are slow to adapt. from seeking ungoverned spaces, the aim of the fifth wave is to establish territories of terror. my second point is on dimensions and drivers of conflict. i am focus here on afghanistan as an illustration. often times the war is described as a civil war. it is not. first, we have a reg

if you look at the history of the campaign before it was abruptly stopped, you saw places like sri lankase the devastation that was had on their populations. and even in the u.s. it has long since passed time mosquitos. >> but i wonder in the past when we have done these kinds of things, the old saying, you can't fool mother nature, there is always this law of unintended consequences that comes to bite you in a different way. go ahead, doctor. >> well, i think we have -- we agree that we really should be very aggressive about mosquito control. i think you would -- really reap great dividends, and yes, there are always ecological concerns, and birds and fish and frogs feed off of mosquitos, and it is part of the eco logic chain, but when we have introduced the genetically modified mosquitos, for example, and sprayed with ddt, and things, we haven't eliminated the mosquito population, but we reduced it enough, and we found no ecological effects, and great human effects. and what i wanted to mention -- >> quickly, please. >> okay. if you think about the fact that the united states and phila