{"id":113888,"date":"2021-04-28T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113888"},"modified":"2021-04-28T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:25:45","slug":"do-we-need-a-funded-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/28\/do-we-need-a-funded-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"DO WE NEED A FUNDED PEACE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I\nread an article published in Daily News on 28.04.2021 \u2018World Military Spending\nRises to the US $ 2 Trillion by Thalif Deen.&nbsp;\nThe article was concluded quoting a statement US Secretary-General,\nBank-Ki Moon, \u2018the world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.\u2019 My question\nis could last a funded peace in the modern world?&nbsp; The best example is since the beginning of\nthe LTTE issue the peace of Sri Lanka had become a funded peace that has not\nbeen succeeded, could we still believe in a funded peace?&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbook, Mahavamsa, describes a peace effort of Lord Buddha between two groups in\nSri Lanka that had been not a funded peace and lasting forever and ever. Do we\nneed a funded peace or genuine peace between ethnic communities is the major\nquestion we should ask ourselves and different communities?&nbsp; There are people in the UN that they are\ndesperately looking for brokering a peace deal with intention of making money.\nThis is called a funded peace. After ending the LTTE war people of Sri Lanka\nthat many reconciliations and funded peace deals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\ncan remember Mr. Talif Dean also worked in a newspaper in Sri Lanka was he an\nagent of funded peace in Sri Lanka. In addition, Mr.Iqbal Athas and other\njournalists manured for funded peace.&nbsp; &nbsp;I don\u2019t know people need to judge it. Geneva\nIssue against Sri Lanka also seems like a funded peace deal rather than a\ngenuine peace process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How\nmuch money was spent on peace deals in Sri Lanka and the people of the country\nknow that funded peace was not successful and Geneva brokers looking on money\nthan making genuine steps for long-lasting peace as Lord Buddha did in history?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS I read an article published in Daily News on 28.04.2021 \u2018World Military Spending Rises to the US $ 2 Trillion by Thalif Deen.&nbsp; The article was concluded quoting a statement US Secretary-General, Bank-Ki Moon, \u2018the world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.\u2019 My question is could last a funded peace in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}