Sri Lanka After the LTTE

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 4:00pm–6:00pm
Location: E51-095

Speaker: Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

Description:
A talk by Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Colombo A leading public intellectual in Sri Lanka, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu is Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Colombo. Alongside, he is Co-Convenor of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) and Member of the Advisory Board of the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support. He was a founder Member of the Board of the Sri Lanka Chapter of Transparency International, and has also been on the World Bank?s External Panel to review its Post Conflict Performance Indicators. In 2004, he was an Eisenhower fellow in the United States. He received his Ph.D. and bachelor?s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE). The talk will be followed by a reception. This seminar series is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the MIT Center for International Studies For a schedule of the series and to get email reminders visit: http://southasianpolitics.net

Open to: General public

Sponsored by: Center for International Studies, Brown University, Harvard University

For more information:
Casey Johnson-Houlihan
258-8552
caseyj@mit.edu
http://southasianpolitics.net