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PREFACE 

This publication brings together a collection of scholarly開 田 町chrelating toe Empowerment of Women and Villages of Sn Lanka presented at an international  symposinhosted by the International Chnsttan Univeityin Tokyo in December  1998.τ'he symposium was an attempt to further our understandmg of Sn Lankan  societydthe developments therein from diveepepect1ves.

τ'he material 1s organizedder曲目esubstantive themes.τ'he first theme Self consciousnessdselfreliance of women is addressed by three pr目 印 刷ionscover ing social and economic dimensions of female participation, Karunaratne focus on support fromesociocultural background, moparticularlythe influence of Bud‑

dhism m early society, 四dm modem times from the oppounitiesfor educational  attainments without gender discrimination, as factounderlymgthe favoublepo sition that women have contmued tooyin Sri Lankan Sinhala society. Rodngo  presents a comparative analysis of the labour market participation patterns of males in the two counes,JapandSri Lanka with a view to identifying the sim laritiesdconstsdto gain an understandmg of the influences underlying the  s1mtlanties/dissimilarities so identified Takakuwa, drawing from her research m a  Southern coast fishing village in Sri Lka日ndsa higherdpositive level of par ttc1pation by women (or wives of fishermen) m fishermens cooperatives and credit  assciationscompared to the male spouses. Factors leading to such gender differ ence in participation and utthzation of the facilities are examined and commented  upon. 

1esecond theme, Rural EmpowermentdDevelopment, is addssedby血児e (or four?) auors.Dwingon field肥 田 町hin Southern Sri Lka,Taniguchi pro v1des msights into how active participation in commumty development activities by  women (e  g. improvement ofrulmfrasctu suchas roads and wells)回同iling voluntary labour servtce inputs have, together with the experience of small scale  selfemployment projects begun by womens mitiattve, empowedwomen to be come modernized and enjoy the achievement of self.reliance.Omori's paper bgs

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outeconbutionof Buddhistdit1onsand values tocpcessof rural develop mentleauthor illusteshow mteractions between sietyandetemple ande prevalentmeritmakingPcticesin Buddhism such as ptic1pationin the monly full moon festival (poya), providing alms to monks (puja), collabortivevoluntary  labour services for public welfare (Sramadana) etc. help to measemtegration and  cohesion of the local commumty by cutting across divisive foeswhichisefrom  castedother clefts in四 回Isociety. Sh1gyos paper focus onthe broader issue of  confhct associated w1disturbancestoeold sialorder caused by new stegies of development.官 官ensuingproblems and tensionsepoayedusing a case sdy of a dispute relatmg to the location of a communal cemetry. Ratnayake documents 

eexperience of a Sri Lank m1t1ativein rural development througheselfreli

ceapproachthe Export Promotion Village (EPV) expenentConceptualised as a  tradmg house of produce atgrass roots level to introduce rural exportonented  products to the competitive international market, all responsibility for the op目 前ion ofeEPV is placed w1血 出eproducers/villagers based on the internal and external  power struc旧田sof the village.eperformance of the project iscedroughthe  years, along w1constrntsencountered. 

rreepapers are presented under theirdtheme, Identity, conflict and coo戸田−

tion  Shibi focuseson a morBuddh回 目lebtionin Sri LankaeVaksti val, which celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddhalerevital ization of the festival in the 19th C印 刷ryis depicted as attemptat S紅 白g血 叩ing 創 出alesenationalism and identity  Hayashis paper probes the conflict between the  SIalaand Tnilcommumties, with田 阻alys1sofeposindependencepolitical  and policy aspects underlying the strained relationships. The role of India in the  conflict is also commented upon.羽田finalpaper authored by Nakamura focuses on  edimension of economic coopetionbetweem Japan and Sri Lanka Tracing the  flow of Japanese aid to Sn Lanka over the years, the author comments oneneed  for change in dictionaway from its long sustained concent tionon consuctions and commodities 

官官publicationis being brought out at a time when intestto catch up on devel opments elsewheredto learn fromchoer'sexpe1ence is gamingp1dlyacro

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the globeτh current volume will have an appeal to both the academic community 

wellasegeneraladingpubbcdconstitute a salutyaddition to the body of  knowledge on the issues coved.

Note 

Professor Chandra Rodngo  University of Colombo 

The papers presen1ed皿Englishare prinled in this issue. Olhe' papers are compiled lo publish  book (Suriranka no Josei, Kaihatsu, Mmzakuishiki, Akashi Sholen, Tokyo, Mah1999).  This preface was conlributed originally to earlierpropcsed comprehensive publication for  the whole papepresentedine1998 international sympcsium of which pgramis attached  ateend of this volume. (Omon) 

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