Up Country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka Lawrence (2015: 98-108) has discussed how the ethnic conflict should be resolved and its impact on the future of Upcountry Tamils. He does not analyse the place of Up-country Tamil women in the conflict nor their stand on it. Women’s role in conflict resolution differs from men, as during the war and in the absence of men at home, women bear the sole responsibility for the households. There are also many instances in the North and East that women were at the forefront of initiatives to create ethnic harmony among communities. De Silva (2017) has examined how victims arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) suffered, and their current situation. She has also interviewed one woman from Kandy whose father was arrested in 1998, and was sentenced to death in 2003. This is one rare instance where an Up-country Tamil woman’s experience that was directly related to the war was documented. Ethnic Conflict, Transitional Justice, and Women in Sri Lanka Transitional Justice (TJ) has become an important topic in post-war Sri Lanka, especially after the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 titled “Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka”. The government of Sri Lankan co-sponsored this resolution after the change of regime in 2015. State mechanisms such as the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms, and civil society organisations such as FOKUS WOMEN, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Viluthu Human Resource Development Centre, South Asian Centre for Legal Studies, Verite Research, National Peace Council, Rights Now, and 58