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    

Ethical futures: Dialogues on state, society and ethical existence 30th , 31st  May &  1st of June,  2013 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATES HAVE BEEN CHANGED, FROM THE  EARLIER 15th, 16th and 17th May 2013) Colombo Call for papers, innovative narratives and panels, and short documentaries open PDF for details

International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo Presents ACADEMY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST PICTURE 2013 Film by Ben Affleck’s “ARGO” (USA) Monday, April 29, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 08

International Centre for Ethnic Studies Presents A Film by Christian Petzold Barbara (Germany) on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 3:00 and 5:30 pm at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 08

ICES presents Sri Lankan Women’s Voices through Specific Literary Genres to celebrate the International Women’s Day 2013 On Thursday, 21st March 2013 From 4:00pm to 6:00pm At the ICES (Kandy) Auditorium

Law and Society Trust in association with International Centre for Ethnic Studies cordially invite you to a Panel Discussion on Coexistence and Disruption : Perspectives on Sinhala-Muslim Relations Tuesday, March 19, 2013     4:00  –  6.00 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, 

  (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

What Lessons Learnt? An accessible, thematised summary of the LLRC report The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) is pleased to announce the release of ‘What Lessons Learnt?’, a summary of the key recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. This summary is available in English, Sinhala and Tamil. Link- http://www.llrcarchive.org/related-documents/

    This essay considers the issue of post-war justice in Sri Lanka through a discussion of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), and the testimonies of the women who came before it. Drawing on Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice (2009), it contextualises the LLRC, which was established in May 2010 to look