‘Up-country Tamil’s Legal and Cultural Citizenship in Post-War Sri Lanka by Prof. Daniel Bass. The Newspaper article which appeared on Ceylon Today Ceylon today Article  

PICTURING RECONCILIATION The International Film Festival Picturing Reconciliation organized by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) is to be held in kanthaley, Trinco on the 15th and 16th of May from 3 to 7 pm

            Annual report 2009-2012 document in pdf    

Life of Pi a Film by Ang Lee on  Friday, June 28, 2013 at 300 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8

Managing Religion and Rights in Plural Societies: Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective  Dian SHAH (DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Durham, North Carolina)  on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8                         

    Burma/Myanmar: from an International Pariah to the West’s New Ally by MarwaanMacan-Markar Thursday, 20 June 2013  at 4:00 pm at the ICES (Kandy) Auditorium flyer in word format

International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo In association with the Centre for Poverty Analysis a lecture/discussion  on   Images and Memory:  How Photo Journalism Helped in the Post Conflict Healing Process in Nepal  by Kunda Dixit  on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 5:00pm at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8

  (In collaboration with Wageningen University, Netherlands) Principle researcher: Goerg Frerks Co-researcher – Nadia Augustyniak and Chulani Kodikara Duration: December 2012 – December 2015   Conflict and peace are as much a battle between competing discourses as a fight between armed groups. It is as much carried out verbally as physically, in the media as

Principal Researcher: Chulani Kodikara Research Assistants: Lakmali Piyaratne, Kethakie Nagahawatte Period: September 2011 – June 2013 Supported by: Diakonia   Following the 2011 local government elections, 4,466 members were elected to local authorities across the country, 90 (or 2.01%) of whom are women.  While several studies have interrogated the obstacles that women face in entering all levels of government, there are hardly any studies which have sought to understand in depth the success stories. “Who are the Women in Local Government” seeks to fill this gap firstly through a quantitative survey with all elected women in local authorities and an equivalent sample of men. The survey will be followed up with a qualitative study.

   Principal Researchers: Shermal Wijewardene et al Period: August 2012 – February 2013 Supported by: Diakonia   This project takes as its object of study the practice of human rights claims-making in Sri Lanka. By ‘practice’, the idea is to map human rights claims-making in terms of the performance of it, i.e. what human rights

This book is an effort at understanding the post-war reconciliation process as experienced by the different communities in the war affected villages in the North and East of Sri Lanka. Since May 2009, “reconciliation” has been an abiding concern for all concerned with the future trajectory of the post war Sri Lanka. “Reconciliation” is defied,

Victorious Victims: an Analysis of Sri Lanka’s Post-War Reconciliation Discourse by Andi Schubert Research Paper No: 6 March 2013 Victorious Victims- PDF