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Author: Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy

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Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Sunila Abeysekera: A Key Actor in the Global Violence Against Women Movement

I thought I would talk about Sunila’s involvement in the seminal moments of the international violence against women movement. Given the violence that has engulfed the world today, this may be a…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 09/07/202109/07/2021
Colombo, Culture, Pandemic, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Equality, Difference, Religion and Ethnicity in South Asia

There is a tension between “equality” and “difference” in modern South Asia. The tension defines South Asia when it comes to religious and ethnic issues. It is manifest at the individual, community…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 01/07/202101/07/2021
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation

Remembering Neelan and Sithie

(written for the 21st Death Anniversary of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam) This is the time to remember Neelan and Sithie Tiruchelvam. Along with Kumari Jayawardena, their living rooms were spaces where scholars and…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 07/29/202008/12/2020
Colombo, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2019

Who will watch the watchdog?

Photo courtesy Iromi Perera’s Flickr album on 2018 constitutional coup Many of us were hoping for a new dawn in 2015. The hope for a “Yahapalanaya” government now leaves ashes in the…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 11/03/201911/04/2019
Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict

Counterterrorism and the Rule of Law

Whenever the topic of counterterrorism is raised my mind goes back to the 2012 film ‘The Gatekeepers’, directed by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moheh. The documentary was shortlisted for an academic award. The…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 07/17/201907/17/2019
Human Rights, Identity, IDPs and Refugees, Issues

Beyond Borders: Statelessness and the People in Between

The United Nations Charter begins “We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…..” Yet, the structure and decision making of the United Nations…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 06/30/201906/30/2019
Colombo, Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Peace and Conflict, Religion and faith

Independence Square Vigil: Speech by Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy

Photo courtesy AP / Manish Swarup via For people of my generation, as Sharika Thiranagama wrote in her recent article, news like the Easter Sunday blasts does not initiate a new fear, it…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 05/05/201905/05/2019
Constitutional Reform, Issues, Politics and Governance

A Tribute to Shibly Aziz PC

I want to thank the organizers for having invited us here today to pay tribute to this great man. I want to particularly thank Shibly Aziz’s wife Fathima. In life she was…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 03/03/201903/03/2019
Issues, Long Reads, Peace and Conflict, Transitional Justice, War Crimes

The Subaltern in Search of Speech

Professor Gayatri Spivak Chakravarti, I would like to thank you, Mr. Mawng Zarni and his enthusiasm for bringing me here today to discuss one of the most important issues of our lifetime.…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 02/11/2019
Long Reads, Media and Communications, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation, The Constitutional Coup

Value Education and Literature

Editor’s Note: Delivered at the Open University on November 30th 2018 Throughout the world today we bemoan the lack of values. No one quite knows what that means and a good post-modernist…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 12/02/2018
Politics and Governance, The Constitutional Coup

Reigning in the Executive President

For the most part of the last few weeks we have been in a suspended state of disbelief. Yes, the 2015 government had not lived up to its expectations, some people were…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 11/11/201811/21/2018
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Peacebuilding of the Future: The Challenges

Image courtesy Getty Images Keynote Address at the Peace Building Commission, Annual Session 2016 Hon. Chairperson Hon. Secretary General Your Excellences Ladies and Gentlemen, INTRODUCTION Transitions are periods of potential danger in…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 06/28/2016
Colombo, Language, Politics and Governance

ISLANDED: A review by Radhika Coomaraswamy

ISLANDED By Sujit Sivasundaram (A review by Radhika Coomaraswamy) 17th December 2015 Let me say that ISLANDED by Sujit Sivasunderam is a seminal work. It is an original interpretation of historical fact,…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 12/21/201512/21/2015
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

ART, BEAUTY, PAIN AND HEALING

### When Sanjana Hattotuwa asked me to give the keynote today on the topic “Beyond Violence and War- Imagining a Just Peace” and to center that topic around the question of art,…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 08/12/2015
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Beyond Genocide

Image courtesy When I heard that the Northern Provincial Council had passed a resolution on Genocide, I put my “head in my hands” again- something I did often during the previous regime.…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 03/08/201503/30/2015

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