GROUND VIEW is a medium for expression and debate within the civil society that will focus on key development issues and participatory democracy, such as sustainable livelihoods apart from traditional agriculture, education encompassing knowledge-based development, free flow of information representing views of divergent communities and emerging global trends, access to technology that will diminish or devalue the relevance of manufactures identities, as well as the citizen’s awareness for the need of good governance and peaceful solutions to the unresolved differences in Sri Lanka