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Item The Potential of Kandy for Cultural Heritage Tourism Development: Enhancing the Sustainability(International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Wijesooriya, M.W.A.T.N.Cultural heritage tourism has a tremendous impact on enhancing the sustainability. The sacred city of Kandy can be identified as one of the UNESCO world heritage sites in Sri Lanka and it has become a popular destination among the domestic and the international tourists. Kandy is the last kingdom of Sri Lanka which has a rich Sinhala Buddhist tradition with tangible and intangible attractions. Most of the tourists travel to Kandy to explore the experience of religious and cultural values. Apart from that, there are many stakeholders supplying their service to tourists at the destination. Also, when promoting Kandy, we want to consider the environmental, economic and socio-cultural sustainability and minimize the risk of arising the issues according to those sectors. Through the research expects to identify the potentials of cultural heritage tourism in Kandy and how should we enhance the sustainability within the sectors of economic, socio -cultural and environmental. As the specific objectives of the research are to organize a proper program in socio economic aspect of the host community. The study reveals the comprehensive analysis of cultural resources in Kandy. The empowerment of community and the other stakeholders of the cultural heritage is the key to address long-term sustainability in any of the cultural heritage destination. Therefore, the researcher is focusing on how to achieve the sustainability in Kandy with the development of cultural heritage tourism. And more consideration goes to minimize the issues thereby promote the Kandy as a sustainable cultural heritage tourism destination. The research is conducted on both qualitative and quantitative methods, where primary and secondary sources are referred in data collecting and the sample of 50 tourists and 50 community members in Kandy randomly selected and SWOT analysis were used to identify the sustainability level in Kandy for the researchItem Sustainability and Intersectionality: Review of National Environment Policy of Sri Lanka in the Light of the Charter of the Global Greens(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Senadeera, A.N.A particular document related to environment named, Charter of the Global Greens (CGG) adopted in 2001. The core of the document sets out the principles that bind together Greens from around the world such as ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, nonviolence, sustainability, and respect for diversity. Basically, this study based this charter. Interestingly, this chatter has not been much exposed for developing countries like Sri Lanka. In the context of Sri Lanka, there can be found policies and some political mandates and that concerned the notion of environment and sustainable development. Among these, the National Environment Policy (NEP) and Strategies in 2003 can be identified as an important policy. The main objective of this comparative study is to analyze the CGG in the context of Sri Lanka with the NEP. The study tried to understand the similarities and differences between these two documents. Although, it is not fully feasible to have a comparison between a global charter and national policy on environment, it has been opened a new space to rethink about the selected national policy. In short, the principles of the CGG emphasized the sociopolitical impact on environment while the NEP largely concerned on the environment. In other words, The NEP can be marked as a policy which is mostly referred to environmentoriented circumstances such as environment protection. The CGG claims the need for fundamental changes in people‘s attitudes, values, and ways of producing and living. Importantly, it proposed to promote a comprehensive concept of sustainability. This wide understanding about the notion of sustainability could create a linkage between environment and society. The NEP is mentioned that, ―such a policy, in its implementation, will pave the way for sustainable development‖. Unlike the NEP, the CGG has been covered important environment factors like ecological wisdom, sustainability, and social factors like social justice, respect for diversity, and political factors like participatory democracy and nonviolence. In this sense, this paper triedto show some of the policy gapsthat can be seen in the NEP. The first part of the CGG is used as a foundation since it has been provided a comprehensive idea and frameow ork on sustainability and sustainable development.Item Practicality of Interpretation Practices to Enhance the Skills of Undergraduates Who Learn Hindi in Sri Lanka(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Hirimuthugoda, H.D.Interpretation can be identified as an oral or verbal form of translation. An interpreter generally needs to have an exhaustive grasp of both source and target languages, excellent verbal communication skills, satisfactory knowledge about the contexts on which the conversations are based on, good interpersonal skills and a very high level of concentration. Interpretation can be simultaneous as well as consecutive and also there are moral characteristics needed for the profession. Undergraduates, being the learners of knowledge and practice to become professionals later, have to enhance their soft skills as well as their knowledge. Education of Hindi as a foreign language in university level has offered academic knowledge to proceed in classical studies as well as to maintain Indo-Sri Lanka cultural, political and economic relations. The objective of this research is to assess the practicality of interpretation practices to enhance knowledge and soft skills of undergraduates, focusing on the improvement of lexical usage in fields where interpretation of Hindi is needed in Sri Lanka. This research was done based on the responses of a sample of B. A. (Special) undergraduates of Hindi, prior to the theoretical and practical lessons of interpretation and later. Recent speeches made in Hindi by few national leaders of India in International summits were used for practical lessons. It was discovered that undergraduates who merely knew about interpretation and its practice were confident that they can improve their lexical knowledge, general knowledge and soft skills through practices of interpretation. This research is significant for the sustainability of language practices of Hindi as a foreign language in Sri Lanka.Item Radio “Dambana”: A new experiment of Community radio in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Herath, D.B.; Rupasinghe, W.; Jayasekara, D.; Gamage, D.; Attanayaka, M.Sri Lanka is the first country which started the Community Radio station in Asia, as Mahawali Community Radio (MCR).But many researchers points out that it was not a proper way of establishing a community radio.(Jayaratne,2008).The rationale behind is that its name as ―community‖ but functioned as ―state owned‖. In 2010 the main MCR station Giradurukotte Community Radio, launched as Radio Dambana. It was transformed as community radio for Sri Lankan Vadda community mainly located in the area of Dambana. In this research we are trying to analyze the main functions of the radio dambana as a community radio. While doing this we are searching the sustainability of the station and its scope. We have used mix methods to collect data such as interviews field visits, content analysis of the programmes as primary data. To analyze the data we deployed the SWOT analysis as a tool. The findings suggest the format of radio dambana would need a shift of its functions to achieve the aims and objectives of the station.Item Institutional robustness averts Hardin’s tragedy of the commons in the community-based beach seine fisheries in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Deepananda, K.H.M.A.; Amarasinghe, U.S.; Jayasinghe-Mudalige, U.K.Small scale coastal fisheries accounts for nearly 40% of world fish catches and provide direct employment for more than 90% of the world fishers employed in capture fisheries. Subsequent recognition of the failures of centralized fisheries management led the governments to accept community-based management as an invaluable means to formulate fisheries management. Such traditional management practices exist in beach seine fisheries of Sri Lanka. Study ascertains and documents the rules and norms that are in general not formerly codified in writing, and evaluate empirically the compliance of elements of customary governance with Ostrom‘s modified design principles (MDP) for long enduring commons management systems. Eight beach seine fisher communities were studied using standard ethnographic methods, and evaluation of compliance with MDP was carried out by administering structured questionnaires. Fishing rights in contiguous sea were vested to the villagers who lived in the sea front, as a residential proximity right. Due to this tradition, the ownership of a beach seine and fishing rights came in three ways identified as: exclusive right, primary rights and secondary right. Sole authority for governing the commons was vested to community organization termed ―madelsamithi‖, considered as the local administrative unit. Institution governing the commons addressed the excludability problem by defining fishing territory, eligibility rules and intercommunity access rule, while subtractability problem was addressed by gear rules, temporal allocation rules, first comer rules, fishing behaviour rules, conservation rules, and rules for distribution of benefits. Institutional architecture of beach seine fisher communities exhibited the high compliance with MDP. Out of the 11 MDP, fisher communities showed very high compliance with four MDP and high compliance with six MDP. Only one MDP had a lower level compliance. As empirical evaluation on architecture of customary institutions shows high compliance with MDP, beach seine fisher communities can be treated as those govern commons through selfgoverning institutions. Beach seining in southern Sri Lanka is, therefore an example for wellmanaged commons that relies on strong, locally crafted rules as well as evolved norms, where institutional and governance mechanisms have essentially averted the ―tragedy of the commons‖. Study provides the starkness to the notion that local actors in tropical communitybased marine resource systems overcome the tragedy of the commons through robust selfgoverning institutions.