Control Democracy, Institutional Decay, and the Quest for <i>Eelam</i> : Explaining Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
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Abstract
O n 25 January 1998, just ten days before Sri Lanka celebrated fifty years of independence, three Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels crashed an explosives-filled truck through the gates of the country's most revered Buddhist temple, damaging its roof and facade. Had the inner sanctum, which Buddhists believe holds a tooth of Lord Buddha, been destroyed, the island would most likely have undergone ethnic rioting on a scale greater than that experienced during the 1983 pogrom. The Temple of the Tooth's significance to the island's Buddhists was communicated by one bystander who pleaded, You terrorists, kill us, eat us, but don't attack our shrines where Buddha lives.' The bombing ultimately killed sixteen people, injured over twenty-five others, provoked the deputy defense minister to tender his resignation and forced the government to move its vaunted festivities from the temple premises in Kandy to Colombo. At the ensuing independence day parade, Sri Lanka's president referred to the ethnic conflict between the country's majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils and noted, We have failed in the essential task of nation building.2 Indeed, Sri Lanka stands as a classic example of how state building can fail when one ethnonational group (in this case the Sinhalese) attempts to build a religio,juridico and politico-economic society by excluding its minorities. In trying to account for Sinhalese nationalism and the ensuing conflict, some scholars point to Buddhism's two millennia influence and its impact in shaping an indelible Sinhalese consciousness, while others emphasize the colonial presence with its attendant cultural and economic influences and
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.046 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".