Guyana and Sri Lanka are usually categorized as bi-communal societies, and recently the latter has been in the international news because some countries boycotted the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference which was being held there, and the British Prime Minister used his presence in the country to call for an international investigation into the recently concluded civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The unfolding of events in that country may have some lessons for us.
Unless appropriate methods are established to manage these kinds of societies, they remain politically unstable and associated with protracted violence and poverty. The table below indicates the
