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Item Theory of Dependent Origination and Social Healing Approach Towards Post Conflict Reconciliation(Reviewing International Encounters 2018,The Research Center for Social Sciences (RCSS), University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Ven.Dhammananda, G.The reconciliation approach that is in use in post conflict reconciliation works in Sri Lanka is the existing models of reconciliation that identify the categories of victims, perpetrators and the bystanders. This very approach creates much deeper divisions and suspicions among the people rather than bringing them together. Further, this approach disconnects people from understanding the interconnectedness of everyone in different ways and in different degrees in the process of development of the conflict and in the same manner in the process of healing. The answer to this problem is developed based on the teaching of the theory of dependent origination and incorporating the practice of four sublime states. Through the theory of dependent origination, the interconnectedness of the whole gamut of story is seen and then the historical development of the problem also is understood. In this approach there is no clear cut divisions of victims, perpetrators and the bystanders. Instead it is understood as a connected whole. The healing is not seen as the healing of individuals or individual categories but healing of all and to understand the need of healing of all as a determining factor for the healing of individuals.Item Going beyond ‘Reconciliation’: A Buddhist Approach to ‘Healing Wounded Minds(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Ven.Dhammananda, G.‘Reconciliation’ is a new term that came in to the vocabularies of Sri Lankan local languages with different translations and adaptations after 2009 when the armed conflict between government forces and the LTTE came to its end with the defeat of the LTTE. However, not only the term ‘Reconciliation’ is new but the meaning and approaches of the reconciliation as well seems obscure to the mass of the society even after 9 years from the end of the armed conflict. One of the basic problems pertaining to this is the failure to find deep rooted local traditions, knowledge, and the approaches towards reconciliation and connect those practices with the present reconciliation efforts. In this paper Buddhist approach of Healing of the Mind of all the parties connected with the conflict is discussed without identifying them as ‘Oppressor’, ‘Oppressed’ or ‘By standers’. Particularly, it is highlighted here the need of understanding the so called oppressor, as well, as an ‘oppressed’ person in different levels and in different conditions to develop the healing model that include all the parties into a liberation model. This approach supports to see what happen in a conflict situation is a process of ‘wounding’ and then what need is ‘Healing’. It is argued here this paradigm shift helps to avoid further wounding that can happen even in the ‘reconciliation’ processes