CONFERENCE PAPERS, (April 1998 \u2013 January 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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• 6th<\/sup> SIEP conference on Roots and Rituals: The Construction of Ethnic Identities<\/em>, Formation of the Kashmiri Ethnic minority in Britain Amsterdam, 20-25 April 1998. (Co authored with Khan, Z., and published in Roots and Rituals: The Construction of Ethnic Identities<\/em>, (eds) Dekker, T., Helsloof, J., Wijers, C., Het Spihuis, Amsterdam, 2000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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  • 1st<\/sup> Conference on Intertextuality of Holy Books<\/em>, Jointly organised by the Alexander Marthoma Centre for Dialogue and the Cosmic Community Centre, Post colonial\u00a0 Criticism as a Cultural tool to Reading of Holy Texts, Kottarakkara, Kerala, India, 25-28 August 2004. (Published in Intertextuality of the Holy Books<\/em>, (eds) Oommen(Jr), M, O., & Karickam, A., Alexander Marthoma Centre for Dialogue and the Cosmic Community Centre, Kottarakkara, India 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • \u00a0Ways and Means: Reinventing Studies in Religion for the Third \u00a0Millennium, <\/em>Postcolonial Criticism: An Approach to De-colonising the Study of Religion <\/strong>Australian Society of Study of Religion (ASSR), University of Sydney,\u00a0 Sydney, Australia, 30 Sept\u20132 Oct. 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • 1st<\/sup> Mission Conference, organised by the Australian\u00a0 Association of Mission Studies (AAMS) Reimagining God<\/em>,\u00a0 Re-imagining God in Diasporic Communities: Sinhala community in Melbourne as a case Study Melbourne, October, 2005 (Published in Crossing Boarders, Shaping Faith, Ministry and identity in Multicultural Australia<\/em>, (eds) Richmond, H. & Duk Yang, M., UCA Assembly and NSW Board of Mission, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • Asia Pacific Philosophy Education Network for Democracy (APPEND) Conference, Ethno religious nationalism in the face of Cultural Universalism: An Analysis of the Sri Lankan Sinhala Buddhist Claims to Order society, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam. (Published in Philosophical Perspectives on Globalisation<\/em> (eds), Cam, P., Ibana, R. A. & Van Duc, P.,\u00a0 APPEND philosophy Series, Vol 5, The Korean National Commission for UNESCO, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          • Dying for\u00a0 Faith:\u00a0 Religiously Motivated Violence in the contemporary\u00a0 World.<\/em> Tamil Tiger \u2018Martyrdom\u2019 in Sri Lanka, Faith in Suicide for Nationhood, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College, University of \u00a0London, UK, 11-12 September, 2006. (Published as Tamil Tiger Martyrdom in Sri Lanka: Faith in Suicide for Nationhood in Politics and Religion<\/em> Vol II, No 2, Center for Study of Religious and Religious Tolerance, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007. Also published as Martyrdom and Nationalism: Faith in Suicide? Interreligious<\/em> INSIGHT<\/em>, Vol. 6 no 2 January 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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            • Congregational Ministers\u2019 Annual Conference, Help !Where in the World are we? Living Peacefully<\/em>, A keynote address, Cross cultural Competence\u00a0 of\u00a0 Jesus & his Approach to Difference: A Reflection on the Lukcan Narrative, <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Grange Over Sands, Cumbria, UK, 10-13 April 2007. \u00a0(Published as\u00a0 Multicultural Competence of Jesus: A Cultural Hermeneutic of the Lukan Narrative in One Word Many\u00a0 Versions: A Re-reading of the Holy Books \u2013 Essays on Intertextuality<\/em>, (eds) Palapathwala, R. and Karickam, A., Dr. Alexander Marthoma Centre for Dialogue \u00a0and Cosmic Community Centre, Kottarakara, Kerala, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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              • \u00a0The 2nd International Conference, Faith, Spirituality and Social Change<\/em>Investing in the \u2018Faith Capital\u2019 as a means to Social Change,\u00a0 University of Winchester, UK, 14-15 April 2007. (Published as Investing in the \u2018Faithful Capital\u2019 as a means to Social Change and Political Imagination, Politics and Religion,<\/em> No.1 Vol. II, \u00a0Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance, Belgrade, Serbia, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                • The 5th<\/sup> International Conference \u00a0on Critical Management Studies Movements of Transition: Hegemonies, Resistances, Alternatives<\/em>\u00a0 Tamil Tiger Dilemmas of Stfatehood with the Island-nation of Sri Lanka,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>University of Manchester, Manchester,11-13 July 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                  • \u00a0<\/strong>29th<\/sup> International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR).Secularity and Religious Vitality, <\/em>Ethno-Religious Revitalisation of\u00a0 Sinhala Buddhism in the secular symbol of politics\u00a0 in Sri Lanka: A critical survey of its Past burden, Present crisis <\/strong>and the Future dilemma<\/strong>, University of \u00a0Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 23-27 July 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                    • International Conference, Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement:<\/em> Turkish Muslims and Muslim Turkey: Perspectives for a New European Islamic Identity ?\u00a0 <\/strong>School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London School for Economic (LSE), University of London.\u00a0 25-27 October 2007.\u00a0 (Published, Conference Proceedings, Leeds Metropolitan University Press, 2007,\u00a0 Revised and expanded the paper into a book chapter published in European Muslims, Civility and Public Life: Perspectives On and from the Gulen Movement<\/em> (eds.) Weller, P., & Yilmaz, I., Continuum, London, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                      • \u00a0USPG Annual conference, \u2018Giving and Forgiving\u2019 Mission. Reconciliation and Hope,<\/em> keynote address, Sri Lanka: Beauty, Agony and Challenges<\/strong>, High Leigh, Hertfordshire, UK, 22 June 2009. Published in Anglican in World mission, USPG, http:\/\/www.uspg.org.uk\/archive.php?article_id=597<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                        • \u00a0International Conference, How, Why and by Whom?\u00a0 Discussing Responsibility for non materialistic values in the public Spheres<\/em>, Museum of World Culture,\u00a0 Attitude Change in Public Discourse for a Fresh Community Engagement in Civic life: A reflection on \u2019sufficiency Consciousness\u2019 in the light of Buddhist thought<\/strong>, 16 November Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009. (Publish as Sufficiency and Material Development: A Post secular reflection in the light of Buddhist thought,<\/em> in European Review,Vol.20, Issue 01, 2012).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                          • \u00a0International Conference on Terrorist Rehabilitation Implementation<\/em>, Countering the Single Narrative: A case for Ideological Rehabilitation<\/strong>, 25-30 November Singapore, 2009 (Published in Workshop on Terrorist Rehabilitation Implementation<\/em> (WTRI), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, A graduate School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                            • \u00a01st<\/sup> Strategic Workshop on Rehabilitation\u00a0 & Deradicalization of\u00a0 Militants and Extremists<\/em>, \u00a0\u00a0Community Engagement to Counter Deviant and Heretical Ideologies,<\/strong> 18th<\/sup> & 19th<\/sup> May 2010, Peshawar, Pakistan, Published in the Report, ICPVTR, Singapore, 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                              • \u00a04th<\/sup> Conference on Interxtuality of the Holy Books, Holy Books and People of Differing Faiths<\/em>, My Book and Their Books: Burdens, Dilemmas and Imaginative Leaps<\/strong>, 26-30 August, Kottarakkara, Kerala 2011. (Published in Holy Books and People of Differing Faiths<\/em>, (eds) Karickam, A., Palapathwela, R., Alexander\u00a0 Marthoma Centre for Dialogue, Kottarakkara and the Cosmic Community Centre, Karickam, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                                • \u00a0Global Asia Security (GSA) 2011 Conference, Community Engagement: Countering the Terror Narrative<\/strong>, Singapore, 15-17 March 2011, (Unpublished).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                                  • \u00a07th<\/sup> Sovereign Challenge Conference,\u00a0 Minorities and Ethnic Groups: Separation, Assimilation and Radicalization<\/em>, \u00a0Homegrown Terrorism: Prevent, Pursue and Engage, United States Special Operations Command,\u00a0(USSOCOM), (Tampa Point, Florida) \u00a0Dearborn, Michigan, \u00a0USA, 06-09 June 2011, (Unpublished) .<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                                    • \u00a01^{st<\/sup> \u00a0International Conference on Community Engagement, Countering Extremism and Building Social Resilience through Community Engagement,<\/em> Mainstreaming Community Engagement as a Counter Terrorism Strategy: Sri Lanka\u2019s Experience and its Learning Curve,<\/strong> International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), Singapore, 21-22 September 2011, published, Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 2011<\/li>\n}
                                    • Book launch address, European Muslims, Civility and Public Life: Perspectives on and from the Gulen Movement,\u00a0Turkish Muslims and Islamic Turkey: Perspective for a New European Islamic Identity<\/strong>, Dialogue Society, Summer London, 2012<\/li>\n
                                    • Towards a Safer Tomorrow:\u00a0Preventing Violent Extremism,\n

                                      Civil society Engagement in counter radicalization and deradicaliztion,\u00a0<\/b>Global Security Asia, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore, 2-4 April 2013<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

                                    • Fifth International bi-annual Interfaith Conference on Holy Books, \u00a0<\/span>HOLY BOOKS AND LIFE AFTER LIFE,\u00a0<\/span>The Living WORD in the Words of the Living,\u00a0<\/b>Kerala South India,\u00a0<\/span>30th Sept. – 2nd Oct. 2013<\/span><\/li>\n
                                    • \u00a0International Symposium,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding: Global Cases, Paradigm of Service : The Narrative of the transnational Hizmet Movement \u00a0and the Pan Asian Sarvodaya Movement \u00a0of Sri Lanka<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>Washington, DC,\u00a0October 24-26 2013<\/span>
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                                      \nInternational Conference, Globalization, Multiculturalism and Peace-building in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges,
                                      \nin Plural Communities: Recovering \u2018Otherwardness\u2019 as a Counter Narrative to \u2018Otherisation: A Proposition to Peacebuilding
                                      \nNew Delhi, 19 – 20 April 2014.
                                      \nSouth and East Asian seminar,Holistic Human Development and Ecological Sustainability with Focus on Poverty of Farmers in Asia, Buddhist Spirituality for Ecological Sustainability and Integral Human Development Development, Development and Sufficiency, Benziger Memorial Spirituality Centre, Trivandrum, Kerala, India , 25 July 2014
                                      \nInternational Research Conference on Christian Studies,
                                      \nDepartment of Western Classical Culture and Christian Culture
                                      \nUniversity of Kelaniya, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
                                      \nNew and Home-grown: A Postcolonial Approach to \u2018Theology in Context\u20193 July 2015
                                      \nInternational conference on Tolerance and Extremism,
                                      \nPerspectives on violent extremism\u2013 de radicalization and integration.
                                      \nGlobal Tolerance Forum,Drammen, Norway, Sept.2015
                                      \nThird Annual Edmond Halley Lecture, Human Rights Under Pressure – A global debate in the face of violent extremism, 29, September 2015
                                      \nSt. Margaret\u2019s Church, Lee, London.
                                      \nConference and Workshop of the student leadership of St. Mary’s College, \u00a0– Being Exemplary and creating Excellence, January, 2016, Negombo, Sri Lanka.
                                      \nConference and Workshop for the teaching staff of St. Mary’s College, Role, dignity of a teacher and work ethics in the 21st century Education, March 2016, Negombo, Sri Lanka.
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