| Radhika
Coomaraswamy, BA (Yale), JD (Columbia), LLM (Harvard).
She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Centre
for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka, and is United Nations Special
Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.
K M de Silva, Formerly Professor
of History of Sri Lanka, University of Peradeniya and Executive
Director, ICES. His major research publications include. A
History of Sri Lanka (1981), Managing Ethnic tensions in Multi-Ethnic
Societies: Sri Lanka (1986), J R Jayawardene of Sri Lanka:
A Political Biography (1994), and British Documents on the
End of Empire: Sri Lanka (1997).
K N O Dharmadasa, BA Hons
(Ceylon), M Phil (York), PhD (Monash), is Dean, Faculty of
Arts and Professor of Sinhala, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka.
S W R de A Samarasinghe,
BA Hons (Ceylon), PhD (Cambridge), is Director, Tulane Institute
for International Development, Arlington, Virginia, USA, and
former Lecturer in Economics, University of Peradeniya, Sri
Lanka. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International
Centre for Ethnic Studies and is also the founder-editor of
The Kandy News.
Gerald Peiris, BA (Ceylon),
PhD (Cambridge), is Professor of Geography, University of
Peradeniya and Senior Research Fellow, International Centre
for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Sandagomi
Coperahewa, Lecturer, Journalism Unit, University of
Colombo. J
B Dissanayaka, Professor of Sinhala, and Head, Journalism
Unit, University of Colombo. Research publications include
National Languages of Sri Lanka: I Sinhalese (1976), Aspects
of Sinahala Folk Lore (1984), and The Structure of Spoken
Sinhala (1991).
Neeraj
Kaushal, Senior Editor of Economic Times, India's
premier economic daily, for which she contributes two fortnightly
columns. She has done journalistic assignments in Italy, Japan
and Nepal. She has worked earlier for Business Today and Financial
Express.
P
Muthulingam, Chairman, Institute of Social Development,
Kandy: Secretary of National NGO Action Front; free-lance
journalist; author of Tamil monograph titled Sri Lanka Dravidian
Movement (1996), and several research publications in the
field of Tamil Journalism.
S
Thillainathan, Professor of Tamil, University of
Peradeniya Sri Lanka; office bearer of several Tamil/Hindu
organizations in Sri Lanka, former editor of Tinakaran ( a
leading Tamil Daily in Sri Lanka ); and member of the Press
Council of Sri Lanka. His research publications are mainly
in the fields of Tamil language and literature. |