A.M. Mihlar is a doctoral candidate at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He holds a Masters in Arts and received an M.Phil. with a gold medal in Comparative Religion from the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, where he also teaches Comparative Religion. He also taught at t...

Venerable Varabuddhi is a Buddhist monk from Myanmar. He is studying for his Master of Philosophy at the Postgraduate Institute of Buddhist and Pali Studies at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University in Chiangmai, Thail...

Dr. Aboobacker Rameez has been working at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka for the last 13 years. He completed his degree in sociology from South Eastern University, and obtained a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He also completed a postgraduate ...

Conflict Analyst, WFP Sri Lanka Durga has a master’s degree in international development and environmental analysis from Monash University, Australia, and currently provides technical support for WFP Sri Lanka on conducting conflict analysis. Until recently, she worked as the Assistant Director o...

Dr. Ramzy is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Malaysia. His background is in Comparative Religions and Educational Sociology. He obtained a degree in Islamic Studies and both an MA and PhD in Comparative Religions. He wrote his MA thesis in Hinduism and his PhD th...

Kaush Weerakoon is a community peacebuilder in Sri Lanka and is currently employed at the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka as a Senior Project Officer. She has contributed to establishing Communal Conflict Mitigatory Mechanisms in identified local level hotspots of religious tensions and has been...

Mohamed Hisham is currently the CEO of the ZamZam Foundation, a reputed nonprofit organization, which works on social development, community empowerment and interfaith relationship building initiatives in Sri Lanka. From 2015 to 2018, Hisham worked as the Deputy Director of the Office for National U...

Nishantha Kumara is a veteran peacebuilder specializing in interreligious dialogue and holds a MA and postgraduate diploma in conflict and peace studies from the University of Colombo. Currently he works at the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka as the project manager for the Collective Engagement ...

Minister, Methodist Church of Sri Lanka Rev. William P. Ebenezer Joseph is a minister of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka and the Co-Secretary of the Congress of Religions and the Secretary General of the Inter-faith Coalition for Peace. Having pioneered many innovative peace-related programmes, i...