Sri Lankan NGO head visits to study environment

30.04.2012                      08.Ijar. 5772                    Tag 23 des Omer; Ta'anit BH"B

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Sri Lankan NGO head visits to study environment

‘Shared environmental challenges can be an entry point for coexistence,’ says Dr. Vinya Shanthidas Ariyaratne.

In the semi-arid Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim populations, who have been rivals throughout their history, struggle over their shared but meager water resources, an issue that one man hopes to help mitigate in part by learning from initiatives taken here in Israel.
“Environment can be an entry point to have a dialogue on shared resources to promote coexistence,” Dr.Vinya Shanthidas Ariyaratne told The Jerusalem Post during an interview in Jerusalem last week….