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To commemorate five years after the end of war, Groundviewspublishes compelling articles by a range of authors around Sri Lanka's tryst with justice, accountability and a positive peace, post-war.Five years after the end of war, Steven Biko’s submission around the minds of the oppressed as the greatest weapon of the oppressor is a useful frame to understand Sri Lanka today. Our greatest enemy continues to be ignorance, often paraded proudly as a substitute for critical engagement and the value of knowledge. Arendt’s timelessEichmann in Jerusalem offers another useful gaze around how today the inability and unwillingness to see violence as precisely that serves to normalise and render ordinary the worst inequality, racism, parochialism, nepotism and corruption. We are no longer aghast at the worst excesses of power and perversely clamour for the democratisation of impunity instead of calling for reform and redress.Obviously, this collection of articles has absolutely no power to change all this, or even any part of it. Yet even if it is just a record of perspectives and ideas starkly and courageously different to what is accepted and celebrated in the mainstream and amongst the majority, the raison d’être of Groundviews is fulfilled. I hope these articles excite you think, respond and engage.We continue to define our lives by what once was. This currency of fear must stop. Long overdue is the need to redefine our future by asking what we must become, and what should be. We know what and where the blue pill gets us.Take the red pill.Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, GroundviewsTo read the full introduction to the Special Edition, click here.To access all the articles in the Special Edition, click here.source: Groundviews