Defeating the LTTE may strengthen rather than soften Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist dominance

Evidence

Taming or vanquishing the LTTE may be a prerequisite for peace, but those who support eradicating the LTTE as a prerequisite for federalism or expansive devolution fail to understand the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist agenda (and may be inadvertently assisting that agenda). — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 302

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the backfire dynamic when group solidarity is threat-hardened: removing the military threat may empower the very ideology that manufactured it, a testable parallel to the reader’s broader threat-removal question. — connects to: Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism will persist and could expand to other minorities — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 59; Sinhalese nationalists wage war to displace Tamils and Sinhalize the northeast — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 278; Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism independently blocks peace beyond the LTTE’s intransigence — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 300 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism independently blocks peace beyond the LTTE’s intransigence #corroborates (0.85) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 300
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism may redirect its hostility to new minority targets #expands (0.85) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 59
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology requires a manufactured enemy to mobilize and survive #complicates (0.80) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 303
• Entrenched Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism forecloses federal solutions and portends broader attacks on minorities #corroborates (0.75) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 42