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    Natasha Fernando

    Natasha Fernando is Program Officer at Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka and Regional Liaison Officer for Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) South Asia. She holds a LLB honors from University of London and BA honors in International Studies.

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  • Sri Lanka’s Maritime Security Dilemma0

    • Commentary
    • August 18, 2019

    August 16, 2019 by Natasha Fernando Within the broad category of maritime security—which encompasses dealing with piracy, terrorism, territorial disputes, trafficking, and natural disasters—an emerging global trend is the push for naval modernization. Naval modernization refers to how states improve naval capabilities by upgrading equipment and assets and apply modern military technology to the maritime

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  • Pros and cons of US-Sri Lanka defense plans0

    • Commentary
    • June 6, 2019

    By Natasha FernandoJune 6, 2019 Recent parliamentary debates concerning defense and security in Sri Lanka were mainly focused on the country’s Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the US. News outlets such as the Maharaja Corporation sensationalized the agreement as a “threat to Sri Lanka’s sovereignty,” among various other commentators on the subject. US Ambassador

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  • Sri Lanka attacks mirror LTTE insurgency0

    • Commentary
    • April 25, 2019

    by Natasha Fernando 25 April 2019 In 2009, Sri Lanka defeated one of the world’s most ruthless terrorist organizations, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), after three decades of carnage. The recent terror attacks in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa mirrored the violence of the past, crippling the entire state security apparatus in just one day.

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  • The curious case of Sri Lanka’s encounter with pirates: the knowns and the unknowns0

    • Commentary
    • April 20, 2019

    He would not fly the Rovers’ flag — the bloody or the black, But now he floated the Gridiron and now he flaunted the Jack. He spoke of the Law as he crimped my crew — he swore it was only a loan; But when I would ask for my own again, he swore it

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  • Sri Lanka’s Geographic Conundrum: Lessons for the Future0

    • Commentary
    • April 7, 2019

    Sri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean located at the tip of the South Asian Subcontinent. Often praised as the pearl of the Indian Ocean, it’s strategically located among important sea lanes of communication that passes through strategic chokepoints including Strait of Malacca, Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mannar. Sri Lanka

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  • A ‘spaghetti bowl’ of regional security arrangements: dilemma for security cooperation?0

    • Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
    • January 29, 2019

    By Natasha Fernando      29 January 2019 The Indian Ocean Region has gained traction in regional multilateral cooperation with policy dialogues centering on economic cooperation, trade and investments, the Belt Road Initiative and security centered discussion spanning non-traditional security challenges, maritime territorial disputes, and regional stability. The development of the ASEAN Regional Forum, the Shangri-La dialogue of Defence Ministers,

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  • Duterte’s war on drugs: is Philippine a standard Sri Lanka should aspire to?0

    • Commentary
    • January 18, 2019

    by Natasha Fernando 18 January 2019 Sri Lanka and Philippine diplomatic relations dates back to 1961 with bilateral visits and discussion on cooperation spanning cultural affairs, visa and taxation requirements for Philippine workers in Sri Lanka, trade and air transport. The first official head of state visit occurred in 1976 when Hon. Sirimavo Bandaranaike visited

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  • Ballistic missile proliferation: what should be the role of a small state?0

    • Commentary
    • January 14, 2019

    Ballistic missiles are rocket propelled weapons systems capable of carrying high explosives and also chemical, biological and nuclear munitions. Ballistic missiles fall into several categories such as strategic missiles (capable of being launched by land or sea), submarine based fleet ballistic missiles, and intercontinental ballistic missiles etc. Currently there are several states that have developed

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  • Private Maritime Security Service providers: Yay or Nay?0

    • Commentary
    • November 28, 2018

        by Natasha Fernando     28 November 2018 Maritime piracy is a significant threat to safe navigation of the seas.  Due to the rise of Somali piracy, different states entered collaborative defense pacts to mitigate the threat.  Among these inter-governmental coalitions are those of the European Union Naval Force, Operation Ocean Shield, Combined Task Forces

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  • Radicalization at Central Province in Sri Lanka: re-visiting the global responses0

    • Commentary
    • November 9, 2018

    Image credit: INSSSL by Natasha Fernando   9 November 2018 In the month of March 2018, Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency following riots and communal violence in the Central Province. An incident in Ampara, of North Eastern Province followed a claim by an individual to have come across ‘infertility pills’ in a plate of food at

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  • Security Cooperation through the BIMSTEC: A New Avenue for regional Security?0

    • Commentary, Issue 27 – Winter 2019
    • September 7, 2018

    Wikipedia   By Natasha Fernando The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a sub-regional organization comprised of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand. [[i]]BIMSTEC has defined itself as a ‘sector-driven’ organization for cooperation in areas of mutual interest which includes, trade, technology, energy, transport, tourism, fisheries,

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  • Sri Lanka: Large Scale infrastructure projects of Sri Lanka, democracy and anti-globalization sentiment.0

    • Commentary, Issue 26 – Fall 2018
    • August 27, 2018

    by Natasha Fernando  27 August 2018 Recently, the Japanese Minister of Defence Itsunori Onodera, the Ambassador of Japan in Sri Lanka Mr.Kenichi Sugunuma, Defence Advisor to the Japanese embassy Captain Atsuhiro Morore, and representatives of Japanese government paid a visit to Sri Lanka’s Eastern Naval Command Headquarters in Trincomalee and the Hambantota Port. The Japanese have

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  • Is Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy of non-alignment of any relevance to the country today?0

    • Commentary
    • July 26, 2018

    by Natasha Fernando      26 July 2018 It is not disputed that S.W.R.D Bandaranaike was the founding father of the non-aligned foreign policy of Sri Lanka when he became Prime Minister in 1956. This was when the Second World War was over, and the world turned in to a tight bi-polar system dominated by

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  • Dangers of maritime piracy, hidden figures and the need to secure the Indian Ocean0

    • Commentary, Uncategorized
    • July 13, 2018

        The Indian Ocean has immense strategic and economic value, due to trade and commercial activities. However, maritime crime which includes: piracy, human, drug and weapons trafficking have posed a threat to safe navigation of the seas. A Stimson Institute study (2012) on maritime security challenges in Indian Ocean region identifies the following: it

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