Culbert Vance
Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Disasters. 2005 Mar;29(1):38-57. doi: 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2005.00273.x.
Donors that provide aid to the Wanni region of Sri Lanka, which is controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), are promoting initiatives that seek to advance the national peace process. Under the rubric of post-conflict reconstruction, the actions of political forces and structural factors have led to the prioritisation of two different approaches to peace-building: community capacity-building projects; and support for the 'peace dividend'. Both of these approaches face challenges. Cooperation with civil society actors is extremely difficult due to intimidation by the LTTE political authority and the authoritarian nature of its control. Peace-building successes with respect to the peace dividend are difficult to measure, and must be balanced against the negative effects of misdirected funds. Aid organisations must be careful not to consider the tasks of peacebuilding, humanitarian relief and community empowerment as either interchangeable or as mutually reinforcing endeavours.
向由泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织（猛虎组织）控制的斯里兰卡万尼地区提供援助的捐助方，正在推动旨在推进国家和平进程的倡议。在冲突后重建的框架下，政治力量的行动和结构因素导致了建设和平的两种不同方法被列为优先事项：社区能力建设项目；以及对“和平红利”的支持。这两种方法都面临挑战。由于猛虎组织政治当局的恐吓及其控制的独裁性质，与民间社会行为体的合作极其困难。关于和平红利的建设和平成功难以衡量，而且必须与资金使用不当的负面影响相权衡。援助组织必须谨慎，不要将建设和平、人道主义救济和社区赋权的任务视为可相互替代或相互促进的努力。
