Together with the support from external advisors, this design team has meticulously prepared the laboratory and is now letting the experiment run its course. This may not be reality, but it becomes reality for those of us involved. From being slightly worried about their new roles, particularly the Sinhala Nationalist movement and the LTTE, the students gradually build their group identity. Cautiously and surely, they slip into their newly adopted roles. They begin by familiarising themselves with their new group.
Intense discussion develops in each of their headquarters.
Later on they will be sitting at the negotiating table, having secret meetings with the other groups they are prepared to meet. It leads students to realise that they can change identities. From being afraid of a group, they are now beginning to understand it, to defend it. In the end it is our minds who we choose to identify with and whose side we wish to see. The UNP representatives feel that they carry the heavy burden of history on their shoulders.