Which way Sri Lanka?

'Dear Reader, You may have felt, as we do, that life is uncomfortably like living on a volcano. You never know when the whole thing is going to blow up.

'So we decided to see what goes on in this world, what has made us land in the present mess, and what we can do about it. Yours, Fellow Investigators.'

Adapted from the booklet 'Where do we go from here?