PPD-People to people Dialogue on peace Sustainable development

After the MOU signed by LTTE the government of Sri Lanka, there was a very good space for the people's interactions among the people in the north south-east west and all around the country. The development experts who are having the conviction that peace must be based on the development and this development should be a sustainable manner, gathered and conducted a dialogue between North and South people in August 2003.

This was a very fruitful one as the group motivated to work hand in hand on the issues pertaining to the lives and livelihoods of the people in the country as a collective effort. This gave a series of dialogues and lot of interactions among youth, women, fishers and farmers as well as among the IDP in the north. So the dialogue continued to seek alternatives at the ground level with the light of the scholars, activists and general public in the north and south.

The dialogue was so fruitful to mutual assistance to the people involve in the peace and development activities. PPD work continue with the educating and searching alternative way of lives for the people while involving the peace dialogue of the country. PPD team believe the right to own, control and manage over resources by the people hence totally reject the globalization and privatization process adopted by the previous and present government of Sri Lanka.

In that context PPD team and the people involve support ISGA proposed by LTTE as a part of the struggle for the right to control and own the resources by the people in the respective areas.

We strongly believe, the plantation people should have the right to decide what they want to do with the land in the hill country, while the farmers should own and have the access to the farm land and the water, same with the fisher people should own the fishing implements and aquatic resources. In the same way we support the idea of having the control of own land by the people in the north, and also in the south and east. Each of the community should have the right to live in this country with the dignity and peace.