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For further details please contact 011-2698847-250/011-2685195 or [email protected] Authors: Thanking you, Rüdiger Blumör was the Team Leader of the Education for Social Cohesion Programme in Sri Lanka from 2014-2019. Anoma WijesingheStefanie Licht was the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of theP. EducationM. Deepal for Chandraratne Social Cohesion - Attorney Programme -at- law in Sri Lanka Head / Bibliographicfrom 2016-2019. Control Division Chairman For Director General Malathi de Alwis is a Socio-Cultural Anthropologist and consultant to the Education for Social Cohesion Programme. The Education for Social Cohesion Programme is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Copyright of this publication belongs to the Centre for Poverty Analysis. Any part of this book may be reproduced with due acknowledgment to the author/s and publisher. The CEPA Publication Series currently include: Studies, Edited Volumes, Working Papers and Briefing Papers. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of CEPA and GIZ. All inquiries relating to this publication should be directed to: Centre for Poverty Analysis 29 R G Senanayake Mawatha, Colombo 7 Sri Lanka Tel: + 94(011) 2676955, 4690200 Fax: +94(011) 2676959 Email: [email protected] www.cepa.lk Education, Social Cohesion and Anomie 2 Contents Foreword ................................................................................................................. 5 Preface ................................................................................................................. 6 Translation Sinhala ................................................................................................................. 8 Translation Tamil ................................................................................................................. 10 School Networks and Education for Social Cohesion in Sri Lanka - A Strategy for the Diffusion of a Social Innovation by Rüdiger Blumör and Stefanie Licht ............................. 13 Endnote ................................................................................................................. 38 References ................................................................................................................. 40 Education as a Lever for Social Cohesion? The Social Cohesion Radar in Schools in Sri Lanka by Rüdiger Blumör and Stefanie Licht .................................................................... 49 Endnote ................................................................................................................. 88 References ................................................................................................................. 90 On Suicide in Sri Lanka - An Outline for Investigating the Correlation between Education, Schooling and Suicidal Behaviour among Students by Rüdiger Blumör and Stefanie Licht ................ 95 Endnote ................................................................................................................. 109 References ................................................................................................................. 110 Student Wellbeing in Sri Lanka - Analysis of Current Scholarship, Certain Policy Measures and Lessons Learned by Malathi de Alwis ........................................................................... 113 Endnote ................................................................................................................. 135 Bibliography ................................................................................................................. 136 3 Education, Social Cohesion and Anomie 4 Foreword This paper examines Basic Social Services and Social Cohesion from an in-depth perspective of CEPA’s own research, advocacy and policy. The services assessed under ‘basic services’ include education, health, transport, social protection, water, and waste treatment. These are evaluated in terms of access, quality, experience and outcomes. Inequality in accessing essential services is indeed a violation of rights of the people. CEPA defines ‘social cohesion’ as an essential requisite that keeps society from falling apart, reducing disparities