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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    80 : International Aid, Peace-building and Conflict: Lessons from Aceh and Sri Lanka

    Darini Rajasingham Senanayake

    4 August 2009

    Global attention generated after the December 2004 Asian Tsunami disaster catalysed one of the most successful internationally-mediated peace processes in the world in Aceh, Indonesia, but it did not save the peace process in Sri Lanka. Rather, international aid contributed to a "no-war, no-peace" equilibrium in Sri Lanka that was brought to an end by the military victory of the government