Keynote Addresses/ Public Lectures/Plenary presentations

Keynote Addresses

• Governance and Youth Policy
• Integrated Response to Disaster Mitigation
• Transforming Our World
• Sociological Perspective on Time

Public Lectures

• Sri Lankan Presidential Elections 2015
• Social Sciences and Public Policies
• Education and Social Mobility in Post-independence Sri Lanka

Plenary presentations

• Economic Growth, Inequality and Social Justice

Newspaper Articles

DAILY MIRROR

• Living in Separate Worlds
• Can we speak the truth?
• School Admission Policy: Legalizing social
• Power without accountability
• What lies beneath the surface?
• Education, Citizenship and development
• Back to adversarial politics?
• Public discourse important
• Moving towards a more Transparent anAccountable Local Governance System
• Energy Crisis: Have we woken up from a longslumber?
• Evidence based policy making
• Mismanagement of social transformation in SL
• Dehumanization of society under neo – liberalism
• Political pragmatism and institutional decay Obstacles to stability
• ‘Tsunami mounds’: A socially useful way todispose of debris?

THE ISLAND

• Reason, popular politics and public welfare
• Regaining Sri Lanka: Some critical comments
• Regaining Sri Lanka: A Rejoinder
• Tragedy of Sri Lanka: IS there a way out?
• ‘Enterprise’ universities?
• Solving the problem of traffic congestion

DAILY NEWS

• Tropical storms, public policy and Sri Lanka
• Towards a people’s charter on good governance
• Taking people’s aspirations seriously
• The present ethnic crisis some further challenges
• Roots of post- independence socio- political crises