Research Summary

My research interests are interdisciplinary, and include environmental justice (land rights, local approaches and resistance to state-led and global development, legacies of colonialism); peace and conflict studies (human rights activism, postwar displacement, gender-sensitive empowerment training); and transitional and transformative justice (gender-based conflict transformation, grassroots organizing, alternative approaches to enabling ‘access to justice’).

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Honours, History and Politics (Medial), Queen's University
• Master of Arts (MA) with distinction, Nationalism Studies, Central European University. Project: Mapping Multiethnicity: On Territorial Solutions to Ethnic Conflict
• Master of Letters (MLitt) with distinction, School of English, University of St Andrews
• PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies, Coventry University. Project: Resistance in transition: Land, gender and transformative justice in postwar Sri Lanka