Foreword by Lord Hoffmann of Chedworth Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Maps List of Contributors PART 1: APPRAISALS 1. 'Dare the Deepening Tide': Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Revolution of our Times by Adam Roberts 2. Sketch of the Life of Lakshman Kadirgamar by Sarath Silva 3. Lakshman Kadirgamar: The Lawyer Turned Politician by Sinha Ratnatunga 4. A Duty of Service in an Age of Terror by Chris Patten 5. Reflections on a 'Citizen of the World' by Karl Inderfurth, Peter Burleigh & Sean Donnelly 6. A True South Asian by Shivshankar Menon & Nirupama Rao PART 2: DOCUMENTS 1. Report to Amnesty International on my Visit to South Vietnam Colombo, 1 January 1964 2. Why I Decided to Enter Politics Colombo, July 1994 3. Human Rights and Armed Conflict Kotelawala Defence Academy, 19 March 1996 4. The Global Impact of International Terrorism. Chatham House, London, 15 April 1998 5. The Terrorism Challenge to Democracies. Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC, 13 September 2000 6. Preventing the Recurrence of Harm to War-Affected Children Winnipeg, 16 September 2000 7. Address to UN General Assembly New York, 18 September 2000 8. The Seven Sisters of South Asia: Where are they Going? Tenth Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, 11 January 2003 9. Flaws in the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement Speech from the opposition, Parliament, Colombo, 8 May 2003 10. Third World Democracy in Action: The Sri Lanka Experience Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 12 May 2004 11. The Peaceful Ascendancy of China: A South Asian Perspective China Institute of International Studies, Beijing, 28 December 2004 Index
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