"Sri Lanka Youth Challenges and Responses" By S.T. Hettige and Markus Mayer

            Preface

The articles in this volume provide a critical analysis of problems of youth in Sri Lanka at the turn of the 21st century. Given the enormous significance of the youth constituency in more recent socio-political developments in Sri Lanka, the focus
on youth is certainly justified. As a collection of essays dealing with challenges and responses of youth in Sri Lanka, I notice three important distinctions in this volume.

First, the interdisciplinary breadth of this volume is remarkable. It brings together sociological, anthropological, demographic, economics, political science and educational perspectives relating to youth issues in the country. This is a welcome trend that can potentially facilitate not only a sound understanding of various dimensions of the youth problem, but also a cross-fertilization of sectoral approaches (i.e. education, employment generation, vocational training, empowerment) towards addressing youth problems.
Second, articles in this volume make a conscious effort to situate youth problems within socio-economic and political environment within the country and the larger global environment. In that sense contributions to this volume have a significance  that goes beyond a particular time and space and disciplinary boundaries.
Third, while this volume deals with much the same problems and challenges of youth that received increased attention in research as well as in policy and program formulation since the first JVP uprising in southern Sri Lanka in 1971, there is a freshness and greater analytical rigor in the analysis pursued as data from
multiple sources are subjected to critical scrutiny by a team of well known
researchers.

This volume will be an invaluable resource to social scientists and others interested in Sri Lanka society in general as well as to youth-oriented service providers in Sri Lanka.

Kalinga Tudor Silva
Executive Director, Centre for Poverty Analysis
Professor of Sociology, University of Peradeniya
   

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