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South Asian Dialogue on “Democracy and Development”

This Dialogue marks the inaugural event of SSA's collaboration with the Open Society University Network Forum on “Democracy and Development” (OSUN Forum). SSA is one of the regional institutional partners of the OSUN Forum on “Democracy and Development”, a 3-year project which aims to move away from outdated views of democracy developed in- and for- a Euro-American context and create a cross-regional dialogue on democracy in its political, social, and economic dimensions.

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Our Work

SSA’s overall mandate is operationalized through three main mutually interrelated areas namely, research, consultations and outreach.

SSA’s research mandate involve wide dissemination of original research

by contributing to programs that further development and social change. Through its research, SSA facilitates a critical understanding of these changes and responds to them in a manner that promotes social and political transformation.

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Thematics

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“For decades, international funding agencies have relied on SSA’s capacity to efficiently design, execute, and disseminate research for evidence-based policymaking. ”

Thematics

Democracy

theoretical, methodological, and political interventions

Over the last four decades, SSA has contributed to serious sociological knowledge leaps in this country through its theoretical, methodological, and political interventions.

Gender

gender sensitive approach in key areas of public policy

SSA’s research on gender and gender related issues focuses on putting gender in political economy to examine the interplay of gender and access to power and resources.

Critical Agrarian Studies

Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) has a deep legacy for creating debate and discussion on the agrarian change in Sri Lanka since the 1980s.

Fundamental to critical agrarian studies is how “social structures, agrarian institutions and political agency of social classes and groups are constructed, reproduced and transformed across space and over time.

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