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Item Determining the Violation of section 31(1) of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act: Regarding Alcohol Products(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Pallewaththa, P.W.P.W.K.; Niwarthana, H.P.G.; Jayasinghe, M.; Jayasinghe, C.; Abesinghe, C.; Nanayakkara, S.Introduction: Sri Lanka was the fifth country in the South East Asian Region to sign the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA) Act No. 27 of 2006 is one of cost effective measures that Sri Lanka apply to prevent issues regarding alcohol and tobacco use since 2006 under the FCTC. Objectives of the Act, is identifying the policies on protecting Public Health, eliminating of tobacco and alcohol related harm through the assessment and monitoring and make provision discouraging persons especially children from smoking or consuming alcohol. This study is considered only section 31 (1) of the NATA Act, which included ―A person not sell, offer for sale, or permit or promote the sale of any tobacco product or alcohol product to any person under twenty one years of age‖. Objective: To determine the violation of section 31(1) of the NATA Act, regards to Alcohol products. Methodology: Cross sectional study design was used for the study. Observation method was the data collection method. Data were collected in nine districts (n=45 registered alcohol selling points) in Sri Lanka. Multistage sampling method was used to select sample from registered alcohol selling points. An observation check list was applied as data collection tool and volunteers between the ages of 18 to 21 were assisted (as decoy) to purchase alcohol from selling points. Results: Results indicated that 93.3% registered alcohol selling points were violated the section 31(1) of the NATA Act. Conclusion: Based on the study results, it is clear that implementation of section 31(1) of the NATA Act, was less successful. Implementation of this legal provision of the NATA Act, would be an enormous intervention to address alcohol initiation of adolescence in Sri Lanka. Therefore, it is essential to take actions for implementing section 31(1) by responsible bodies and authorized officers immediately.Item Non-governmental organization’s influence on contemporary nation states: With special reference to selected humanitarian NGOs in Sri Lanka in post-war era(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Fernando, H.S.G.; Abesinghe, C.Non-governmental organizations have become influential actors in the international arena in 21st century. With the emergence of Civil War in Sri Lanka handful of international and local NGOs have operated wide spectrum of activities in Sri Lanka. After the end of the Civil War in 2009, Sri Lankan Government, security forces and LTTE have criticized by leading NGOs like Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group, ICRC, and Amnesty International for human rights violations and war crimes, especially during the last few months of the armed conflict. In turn an anti-NGO movement and Sri Lankan Government adoption of new laws to supervise NGOs badly damaged the state-NGO relation. The researcher took efforts to study what kind of influence the humanitarian NGOs imposed on the state behavior of Sri Lanka in post war era. The main objective of the research is to examine the impact of NGOs on Sri Lanka‟s state behavior and state policies from 2009 to 2015and whether it became a threat to state sovereignty. Further more this research examined what are the strategies that NGOs use to influence Sri Lanka and the international challenges that Sri Lanka had to face and whether NGOs fulfilled the interests of their donor countries. The study has been conducted using both primary and secondary data and the study is a qualitative data analysis. Secondary data have been collected from books, journals, reports, and academic publications. Primary data have collected by interviewing diplomats, government officers, military officers, scholars and NGO staff through unstructured questionnaire method.The study has identified various strategies used by NGOs and main international challenges which Sri Lanka had to face in post war era. Mobilizing public opinion, interact with international community and publishing reports regarding human rights violations and war crimes led to the UN investigation on Sri Lanka and withdrawal of GSP+ concession. These influences have impacted on state behavior of Sri Lanka in post-war era.Item ජනසංඛ්‍යාව වියපත්වීම සහ එයින් උද්ගතවන සමාජ, ආර්ථික බලපෑම්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Dilrukshi, P.A.; Abesinghe, C.Item ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ විහාර දේවාලගම් වාසීන්ගේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Kumari, L.I.; Abesinghe, C.Item ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ විහාර දේවාලගම් වාසීන්ගේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Kumari, L.I.; Abesinghe, C.Item ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ විහාර දේවාලගම් වාසීන්ගේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Kumari, L.I.; Abesinghe, C.Item සිවිල් යුද තත්ත්වයක් පවතින සමාජයක් තුළ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධානවල ක‍්‍රියාකාරිත්වය පිළිබඳ ඇගයීමක්: උතුරු නැගෙනහිර යුද සමය තුළ ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වූ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ක‍්‍රියාකාරිත්ව ඇසුරින්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Gunasekara, T.M.T.H.; Abesinghe, C.