ICES

ICES engages in academic research, advocacy on key policy matters and endeavours to create a critical mass of people who believe in cultural pluralism and tolerance.

Our Goal

A world which celebrates diversity anchored in the fundamental unity of the human species.

Our Vision

To contribute towards relevant rigorous intellectual traditions that recognise our common humanity and promote our diverse identities, and to generate ideas that inform and guide policies and institutions in order to promote justice, equity and peaceful coexistence.

Our Mission

To deepen the understanding of ethnicity, identity politics and conflict, and to foster conditions for an inclusive, just and peaceful society nationally, regionally and globally, through research, publication, dialogue, creative expression and knowledge transfer.

Research

Migration and Collectives/Networks as Pathways Out of Poverty in Fishing Communities

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in collaboration ...

Promoting Human Rights, Inclusion and Religious Harmony in Sri Lanka and Beyond: Equipping Communities to Resist Violent Conflict

Identifying Post-War Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women in Sri Lanka

New Publications

Fracturing Community : Intra-group relations among the Muslims of Sri Lanka (Sinhala)

Ethno-religious violence has a long history in Sri Lanka dating far back as 1883. The Muslims of ...

One Confession, Two Confessors : A forensic Linguistic analysis of Confessions Submitted in the High Court Cases of Nallarathnam SIngarasa and Sellapulle Mahendran

New Buddhist Extremism and the Challenges to Ethno-Religious Coexistence in Sri Lanka

The Library

Library facilties

The library plays an important role in all academic activities of ICES. It provides information support to research working groups, individual ...

Conferences

Up-country Tamils: Charting a New Future

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies organized a conference Up-country Tamils: Charting a New ...

ICES Events Calendar

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Latest Video

God Must be Deaf

Links

Maps of Women's development projects in the North

Photo Stream

Contact Us

COLOMBO

02, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka (+94) 112 685 085 / 6 797 45 / 2 698 048 (+94) 112 688 929 admin@ices.lk

KANDY

554/6A, Peradeniya Road, Mulgampola (Kandy), Sri Lanka (+94) 812 348 92 / 2 232 381 (+94) 812 234 892 iceskandy@gmail.com

Women and Development

Coexistence and Religious Harmony

Justice, Memory and Reconciliation

Diversity and Social Inclusion

Rights and Institutional Reform