A.R. Sriskanda Rajah recently graduated with a PhD from Brunel University, London. His thesis developed a Foucauldian biopolitical perspective on Western policy in the Tamil – Sinhala conflict in Sri Lanka (the Eelam War). In doing so, it also explored ways that peace becomes a means of waging war. In particular the author’s thesis revealed how the use of counter-terrorism laws in the West produced the effects of battle in Sri Lanka.