at Osgoode Hall Law School’s Helliwell Centre for
Innovation in Dispute Resolution, Room #1014, York University

The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security at York University and Amnesty International Canada are co-hosting a panel discussion, partnering with Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, to examine how the international community may engage Sri Lanka to transform the long-term conflict that still exists between the island’s major ethnic groups, to a new era of co-operation and working together respectfully of one another.

Leading this discussion are:

*Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu is Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-governmental organization which carries out research and advocacy for public policy in Sri Lanka. It promotes non-violent conflict resolution, and strengthens democratic governance.

*Steven Ratner, one of the three panelists who advised the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, about how the accountability of the adversaries in Sri Lanka’s conflict can be pursued now. He is a Professor of public international law at the Law School of the University of Michigan.