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Failed states: Sri Lanka s ranking improves
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 - 9:26 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka s rankings have improved in the 2009 Failed State Index of the FOREIGN POLICY magazine with the country dropping down from the critical category last year to the danger category in the latest rankings.
The annual report produced by the FOREIGN POLICY magazine and the Fund for Peace, ranks the world s most vulnerable states in order from most down to least.
Sri Lanka finds itself among countries like Uganda, Niger, Burundi, Nepal, Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Congo, Iran and Syria.
Sri Lanka is ranked 22 in the latest report while last year it was ranked 20 and was among the critical countries headed by Somalia and included Zimbabwe and North Korea.
The fifth annual Failed States Index is a collaboration between the Fund for Peace -- an independent research organization, and Foreign Policy. Using 12 indicators of state cohesion and performance, compiled through a close examination of more than 30,000 publicly available sources, it ranked 177 states in order from most to least at risk of failure. The 60 most vulnerable states are listed in the rankings.
The Fund for Peace is one of the world s leading institutions developing creative strategies to prevent and resolve conflict. An independent research and educational organization, it has spent the past 10 years pioneering new tools for decision makers. The Fund focuses on developing early warning and performance measures promoting transparency and accountability among governments, the private sector, and non-state actors limiting weapons proliferation and protecting civilians caught in conflict.
Founded in 1970, FOREIGN POLICY is the premier, award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., FOREIGN POLICY was a 2007 winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
The magazine s readers include some of the most influential leaders in business, government, and other professional areas throughout the United States and more than 160 other countries.
The magazine says the global recession is sparking fears that multiple states could slip all at once into the ranks of the failing and that now more than ever, failed-state triage could become a grim necessity for world leaders from the United Nations and World Bank to US President Barack Obama s White House.
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AstroLTTE
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 24 Jun 2009 14:32:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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The fifth annual Failed States Index is a collaboration between the Fund for Peace -- an independent research organization,
Ha ha ha.....Fund for peace must be fK for peace...and may funded by Vanga Machang team......:-))) |
ajan
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 24 Jun 2009 14:35:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Srilanka detaining the Tamil MP who had withness the warcrimes will prove that srilanka commited war crime.
detaining the doctors who had withnessed srilanka war crimes proves srilanka hiding much more than war crimes.
detaining the entire population of two districts in jail shows it is a failed state.
Rajapaksha brothers ,aunties and uncles,cousins running a government shows there is no transparency and it is a failed state.
abduction and murder of journalst shows it is a failed state it has much more to hide than genocide,warcrimes
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24 Jun 2009 14:36:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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The magazine s readers include some of the most influential leaders in business, government, and other professional areas throughout the
The magazine readers include most of the transitional Peelam members, and Point Pedro business associates and Peelam terrorist professionals that are remaining......:-)) |
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 24 Jun 2009 14:37:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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| We will see the rank in the next year. All tamils must pay off their debits to sri lanka. |
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24 Jun 2009 14:39:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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detaining the entire population of two districts in jail shows it is a failed state.
Detain with shops..., medical facilities..IDD call services..banks...and schools....:-)) |
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 24 Jun 2009 14:39:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy magazine.
One NGO, one news paper!
They are taking the world on ride.
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 24 Jun 2009 14:46:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Long way to go....
But we in the correct path and direction... |
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24 Jun 2009 14:50:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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| More people die in Iraq and Afganistan. Are they in the failed state list? |
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