Kalinga Tudor Silva
University of Peradeniya
32 Papers
171 Citations
Kalinga Tudor Silva is an academic researcher from University of Peradeniya. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Abortion. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 28 publications.
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Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace
Jonathan Spencer,Jonathan Goodhand,Shahul Hasbullah,Bart Klem,Benedikt Korf,Kalinga Tudor Silva +5 more
- 20 Dec 2014
TL;DR: Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque as mentioned in this paper is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the closing years of the civil war and provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.
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‘Tsunami third wave’ and the politics of disaster management in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the social and political consequences of two disasters that struck Sri Lanka 70 years apart, the 1934-1935 malaria epidemic that killed over 100,000 people and the tsunami of 26 December 2004, and argued that the state and civil society responses to the malaria epidemic of 1930s in many ways led to the establishment and development of the Sri Lankan welfare state and related outcomes, including rapid advances in quality of life particularly in the rural sector.
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Kidney progression project (KiPP): Protocol for a longitudinal cohort study of progression in chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka
Penny Vlahos,Stephen L. Schensul,Nishantha Nanayakkara,Rohana Chandrajith,Lalarukh Haider,Shuchi Anand,Kalinga Tudor Silva,Jean J. Schensul +7 more
TL;DR: This study is the first to foster a multi-disciplinary approach that focuses on disease progression, identifying behavioural and exposure risk factors for rapid kidney function decline, in this progressively fatal disease.
Youth and sexual risk in Sri Lanka.
Kalinga Tudor Silva,Stephen L. Schensul,Jean J. Schensul,Bonnie K. Nastasi,de Silva Mw,Sivayoganathan C,Priyani Ratnayake,Wedsinghe P,Lewis J,Eisenberg Mr +9 more
- 01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: The authors found that young people were willing to talk openly with same sex interviewers and to respond in anonymous self-administered questionnaires and the peer education model was effective especially for women without vocabulary knowledge or peer networks.
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