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.
A world which celebrates diversity anchored in the fundamental unity of the human species.
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.
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.
Sri Lanka continues to struggle with celebrating diversity and memorialising loss. This is despite centuries of cultural confluence, a location at the crossroads of trade and ...
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Sri Lanka has had a Rights-based National Policy on Disability since 2003. The UN Convention on ...
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The library plays an important role in all academic activities of ICES. It provides information support to research working groups, individual ...
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The International Centre for Ethnic Studies organized a conference 'Addressing ...
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Rising Voices: The Women of the North
