Role of religious actors in establishing sustainable state-society relations in the aftermath of conflicts and in addressing structural violence –  Address By Venerable Galkande Dhammananda, Head of the Walpola Rahula Institute, Sri  Lanka at the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development in May 2018  Sri Lanka is a home for a little over 20 million people. Sri Lankan society comprises Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and a small percentage of Burgher people. Proportionate distribution of religions among these people in Sri Lanka are as follows: 70% Buddhists, 12.6% Hindu, 9.7% Muslim and 7.4% Christians.   Buddhists of this Island are ethnic Sinhalese and Hindus are the ethnic Tamil. There is hardly any Hindu from the Sinhalese community and hardly any Buddhist from the Tamil community. In this circumstance, only the Christian religion represents both the Sinhala and the Tamil communities. However, Buddhist share many Hindu religious cultural practices in their day-to-day religious rituals ...

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