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Item Role of the Cinematographer in Sustainable Development (Criticism, During the Period 2005-2017)(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Basnayaka, B.A.N.H.In order to fulfill social necessities, an artist becomes a pioneer in every time. There are so many examples all around the world which prove it. Russian revolution and France revolution are two of best examples for that. In Sri Lanka, most of the classical literacy texts are being written fulfilling that necessity. The prose poems like ―Buthsarana‖ & ―Amawathura‖ have being written in order to fulfill that timely social necessities. So an artist can provide a special coordination to publish sustainable development which has been strongly discussed. The purpose of this research is to analyze the cinematographer ‗s duty in sustainable development. The research problem is how a cinematographer contribute in sustainable development. Films, documentary films, books, magazines & internet were used as research method. In addition to that, the discussions with the experts in the cinema also supported in research method. The target of sustainable development is utilization of environmental resources & save them for the future generation. This task is more pronounced in cinema than publishing in linguistic media. Because cinema is more attractive among general audience. Lot of documentary films have been produced targeting sustainable development. They are ―Food‖, ―ocean‖ (2009) in France, ―Earth‖ (2007) in UK, ―plastic planet‖ (2009) in German, ―cow‘s piracy‖ (2014) in USA etc. Several television programs are telecast in Sri Lanka aiming the above task. But, they are not enough to develop the human attitudes in the present world. Multiple functions can be done through the cinema for the fruitfulness of sustainable development & the contribution methods for the above task is finely analyzed through this research.Item Friendship, Justice and Sri Lanka’s Armed Conflict: A Study of Somaratne Dissanayake’s Saroja(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayasena, N.Writing about a nation emerging from three decades of violent conflict requires one to rethink identities irrevocably altered by the dehumanizing effects of war. Since the conclusion of the armed conflict in May 2009, there has been much talk of reconciliation but more often than not, the debate has been framed by the discourse of terrorism, on the one hand, and human rights or war crimes discourse on the other. This paper attempts to circumvent such regressive approaches to reconciliation by focusing on the politics of friendship by examining Somaratne Dissanayake‘s first feature film Saroja (1999), which focuses on the subversive friendship between a Sinhala schoolteacher and a Tamil Tiger. In Chapter 8 of Nicomechean Ethics, Aristotle argues that friendship is the very foundation of a unified nation. ―Friendship seems too to hold states together, and lawgivers to care more for it than for justice; for unanimity seems to be something like friendship.‖ Not only is friendship the glue that holds communities together but friendship also supersedes the law, because Aristotle views friendship as the cornerstone of unity. He goes so far as to say that where friendship exists, there is no need for justice; however its converse, justice without friendship, is futile. Indeed as a nation emerging from a protracted civil war, contemporary Sri Lanka is a space where minority communities demand that state-sanctioned injustices be redressed, but if justice without friendship is counter-intuitive, it is imperative to forge new partnerships between these two communities through a redefinition of Sinhala-Tamil relations. Further reinforcing this link between friendship and justice, Jacques Derrida remarks, ―friendship plays an organizing role in the definition of justice, of democracy even.‖ Derrida‘s reiteration that ―fraternity‖ is located between equality and liberty and is the foundation of the French Republic has particular resonance to postwar Sri Lanka. If Tamil militancy in Sri Lanka was launched on the demand for equality (and liberty) for Tamils, to invoke the concept of fraternity or friendship is to highlight that reconciliation cannot occur in a cultural vacuum.