විද්‍යා වින්දන

Envisioning Resilience; Need of a Paradigm Shift in Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction Process for Improving Social Resilience in Sri Lanka. Landslide disaster risk reduction process that has been newly introduced and implemented in Sri Lanka is intellectually needed an immediate advancement, since no social sentiments are addressed and discussed. Hence, it is no wonder that wellbeing of social sphere has automatically been neglected and ignored in disaster risk reduction proc ess of the country. Impacted and vulnerable communities due to landslide which is a geological phenomenon, are, in most cases, poorly aware about the cause of disaster and post disaster consequences. This has been well noted and well proved in many times by the protests of communities when the social sphere is crossed by the landslide disaster risk reduction plans. Cultural behaviours and social relationships which have been resulted from establishment of long term experiences are highly important for lo