Abstract
In the post-war Sri Lanka, extremist forces among Muslims have emerged as significant “violence-making” agencies. Extremist forces’ rise poses serious threats to peaceful coexistence and stability in Sri Lanka. The literature on the state fragility-terrorism nexus, by focusing exclusively on whether state fragility is a cause of terrorism provide us good insights on states’ inability to be an impartial agency to deliver good services and justice. The role of state fragility as a condition of the emergence of extremist forces is one of the major trends in Sri Lanka since impendence. This chapter provides some useful notes on the state failure to be a neutral agency in deeply divided Sri Lanka. The chapter argues that there is a strong relationship between state fragility in the post-war Sri Lanka and the rise of extremist forces among Muslims in the post-war Sri Lanka. Although the empirical basis of this research includes a single country, the analytical framework developed in this paper has possible implications for studying a larger number of countries in economically and politically unstable democracies.
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Imtiyaz, A.R.M. (2023). Fragile State Policy and the Rise of Muslim Extremism in Sri Lanka. In: Mostofa, S.M. (eds) Dynamics of Violent Extremism in South Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7405-2_6
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