Victims of Sri Lanka’s internal armed conf lict have been seeking truth\, justice and reparations for the abuses and v iolations of international law committed during the nearly three-decade lon g war. Domestic transitional justice efforts have been largely piecemeal\, with no real political will to address longstanding grievances. In addition to the change of government and their commitments to operationalize a new Truth and Reconciliation Commission victims are largely skeptical of\, the panel will discuss the role of the international community to ensure that S ri Lanka’s victims of grave human rights violations and abuses find redress .
Panelists
Kate Cronin-Furman studies mass atrocities. She i s an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Universi ty College London\, where she directs the MA in Human Rights. Cronin-Furman received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia in October 2015 and has held fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Scie nce and International Affairs and Stanford's Center for International Secur ity and Cooperation. In addition\, she has a J.D. and has practiced law in New York\, Cambodia\, and The Hague.
Thyagi Ruwanpathirana is the 2024 Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Fellow\, hosted jointly by the Human Righ ts Program and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvar d Law School. As the Tiruchelvam Fellow\, her research project focuses on t he creation of an enabling environment for a post-conflict Truth Commission that meets the needs of the victims of Sri Lanka’s internal armed conflict . Thyagi works as Amnesty International’s South Asia Regional Office in Col ombo\, Sri Lanka since 2018. After having completed her Bachelor of Laws (L LB) from the University of Warwick\, UK in 2010\, Thyagi obtained her Maste r of Law (LLM) in Human Rights in 2011 from Birkbeck College\, University o f London.
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