Dominant Approaches” by Vijay K Nagaraj, “Protests and Counter Protests: Competing This volume contains the writings of six of the presenters at CEPA’s annual Poverty Symposium. The 13th Annual Symposium was titled “Post-War Development in Asia and Africa.” The articles carried in this publication are themed “Conflict, Transition and Development.” The six articles are: “War, Conflict and Development: Towards Reimagining Civil Society Spaces in Post-war Sri Lanka” by Harini Amasuriya, “Contradictions of the Sri Lankan State” by Devaka Gunawardena, “The Reintegration of Maoist Ex-Combatants in Nepal” by Chiranjibi Bhandari, “Myanmar: Conflicts over Land in a Time of Transition” by Soe Nandar Linn, “Making Pickles during a Ceasefire: Livelihood, Sustainability, and Development in Nagaland” by Dolly Kikon, and “Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangahar, Afghanistan” by Giulia Mionoia, Wamiquallah Mumtaz and Adam Pain.