{"id":165615,"date":"2016-07-22T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=165615"},"modified":"2016-07-23T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:52:51","slug":"people-to-people-engagement-a-must-npc-says-after-jaffna-student-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/people-to-people-engagement-a-must-npc-says-after-jaffna-student-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"People-To-People Engagement A Must, NPC Says After Jaffna Student Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent clash between the students at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=University+of+Jaffna&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jaffna University<\/span><\/a> has shown the increasing need to enhance people-to-people engagement to develop greater understanding and sensitivity to the concerns of each ethnic and religious community, while also understanding the reasons for the frustration of the students.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-jaffna-student-brawl-mutual-coexistence-as-the-only-path-forward\/jaffna-students-clash-picture-via-https-twitter-comuthayashalin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-165293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-165293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jaffna-students-clash-picture-via-https-twitter.comuthayashalin.jpg\" alt=\"Jaffna students' clash picture via https-::twitter.com:uthayashalin\" width=\"639\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jaffna-students-clash-picture-via-https-twitter.comuthayashalin.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jaffna-students-clash-picture-via-https-twitter.comuthayashalin-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the government, Tamil parties and liberal academics are having a positive rapport at the highest levels, this relationship of trust and cooperation has yet to permeate the student consciousness. This problem is likely to exist at the larger community level also. There is a need for a more concerted effort to be made for people-to-people engagement to develop greater understanding and sensitivity to the concerns of each ethnic and religious community,\u201d the National peace Council (NPC) said.<\/p>\n<p>The NPC also said that it is necessary for the government and university administration to keep reasonable ethnic ratios in mind when allocating places for students to universities in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing its point further, NPC noted that the Jaffna clash follows a clash March this year between Tamil and Sinhalese university students in the Trincomalee campus over an incident of ragging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe high proportion of Sinhalese amounting to between 60 to 80 percent of the student body in some of the university faculties in the North and East has caused a feeling of being under pressure by the influx of Sinhalese students in traditionally Tamil (and Muslim) areas,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>According to NPC, the changed ethnic composition of the student body is invariably accompanied by a change in the administrative composition of the university system. \u201cBoth these factors may be viewed with anxiety by the Tamil and Muslim communities in the North and East who are seeking to protect their identity not least in the areas in which they are a majority,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":165293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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