Thursday, 08 May 2025
Consultations commence to design reconciliation mechanisms

Consultations commence to design reconciliation mechanisms Featured

Face to face consultations with stakeholders throughout Sri Lanka have commenced to design reconciliation mechanisms.

The Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms, chaired by Attorney-At-Law, Manouri Muttetuwegama would commence their task based from the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute.

The other members are Dr. Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Gamini Viyangoda, Visakha Dharamadasa, Shantha Abhimanasingham, Prof. Sitralega Maunaguru, K.W. Janaranjana, Prof. Daya Somasundaram, Dr. Farzana Haniffa, Prof. Gameela Samarasinghe and Mirak Raheem.

The online submission questionnaire is now live on the tri-lingual website of the Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms, "www.scrm.gov.lk".

In addition to the online submissions process, face-to-face consultations will take place in all districts of the Island via town-hall meetings, focus group discussions and structured interviews.

The reconciliation mechanisms planned by the Government include an Office of Missing Persons; a Truth, Reconciliation, Justice and Non-Recurrence Commission, an accountability mechanism and an Office of Reparations.

 

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