Dr. RAJEEWA S JAYASINGHE
Member of the Board of Management
Research Fellow
Rajeewa Suresh Jayasinghe is a Research Fellow at GV. He read for
his junior and senior high at Trinity College Kandy, Sri Lanka.
He obtained the highest aggregate for the Humanities and Social
Sciences at his College and was selected to the University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka to read for an Honours Degree in History in 1987. He obtained
a First Class in History (Summa Cum Laude) in 1992 and was recruited
to the Department of History of the University of Peradeniya in
1993. In 1996, he was selected for a Fulbright Scholarship to the
University of Texas at Austin to read for an MA in History at the
Department of Asian Studies. Having returned in mid 1998 with an
MA from the United States, he was again selected on a SAARC Scholarship
to pursue his Doctoral Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
in 2000. He returned to the University of Peradeniya in mid 2003
with a Ph.D. in History and since then has been teaching courses
in Sri Lankan History, European History, Indian History and Colonialism.
He is also engaged in a programme that teaches and assists American
College students in the Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE)
Programme affiliated with the University of Peradeniya. He is also
involved in teaching American undergraduates American History, National
Government and International Relations at the American College of
Higher Education that is affiliated to some universities in the
United States. Since of late he is involved in consultancies with
Transparency International (TI) Colombo, Sri Lanka and the Open
University of Sri Lanka.
Recent writings:
• “Civil Society Organizations in Sri Lanka: Their
Inherent Strengths and Weaknesses” in Modern Sri Lanka Studies
Vol. II (New Series), No 02, 2007, University of Peradeniya, pp.
43-59.
• Presented a Paper titled Civil Society in Sri Lanka: Strengths
and Weaknesses at the Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE)
held at the Faculty of Science, 18th December 2008
• Presented a paper titled An Introduction to Conflict Studies
at the 4th Conference of the Association for the Study of Australasia
in Asia (ASAA) held at Hotel Suisse, Kandy, 2nd – 5th December
2008
• Presented a paper titled Evolution of the Ethnic Conflict
in Sri Lanka: Historical Perspectives in an International Workshop
titled “Ethnicity in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand: Historical
Perspectives and Contemporary Issues” in Bangkok at Chulalongkorn
University & Ubon Rajathanee University in Thailand, September
5th-9th, 2007
• Presented a paper titled Sri Lanka’s Foreign Relations
in the Context of Violent Conflict (Co-author S W R de A Samarasinghe)
in an International Conference titled “Violent Conflict, Terrorism
and Nation Building: National and International Responses in Sri
Lanka and other South Asian Countries” in Kandy at Hotel Citadel,
Sri Lanka, August 3-4, 2007
• Attended an International Conference titled Civil Society
& Democratic Space in South Asia: Civic Interactions, Economic
Development and Regional Peace in New Delhi, India, organized by
the Centre for Policy Affairs, January 2006. Title of the paper
presented: Regional Disparity and Civil Society in Sri Lanka.
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