Hemantha Bandara's Page

What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

all the community suffer due to ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka more than 30 years. but No proper solution made by the any government. then i decided to join with the foundation for co-existence.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)

I am responsible for monitoring and producing the analyses of the human security situation in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka and inform FCE’s Programs Division regularly. and responsible for producing the daily Situation Report on the Eastern Province, Weekly human security situation report, Monthly Human Security Assessment Report and Special Reports on Focused-Issues and disseminating the same to FCE’s Programs Division and multilateral agencies

Responsible for holding the Monthly Human Security Roundtable Meeting with the heads of multilateral agencies (the UN System, EC Delegation, The World Bank, Embassies and High commissions, INGOs and Government Agencies) is the convener to the National Advisory Council on Human Security in the Eastern Province. And built networks between FCE’s Information Centre and multilateral agencies for the exchange of information


Laid rules and procedures for event data collection, verification, coding, database management and information analysis to deliver conflict early warning for the Eastern Province. Introduced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for digital mapping of peace and conflict indicators to give early warning for the Eastern Province

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise

Sri Lanka - North and Eastern Province

What is your current country of residence?

Sri Lanka

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

I am Manager Information Centre in the Foundation for Co-existence and I am studying conflict resolution in Practice and I wanted to study the conflict resolution further

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://fce.lk/

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmHome.aspx

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?

Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Development, Humanitarian Relief, Education, Civil Society, Organizational Development, Psychosocial

Which are your primary skills areas?

Training, Program Design, Intervention, Research

If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications

Daily Human Security Situation Report
Monthly Human Security situation Report
Annual Human Security situation Report