CV & Contact

Sanjana is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives and Head of ICT and Peacebuilding at InfoShare, both located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has an Advanced Masters in Conflict Resolution and International Relations at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and an honours degree in English from the University of Delhi, India. With significant research and hands-on experience in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of peace and media support programmes and multi-stakeholder Track II processes for conflict transformation, Sanjana is an internationally recognised thought-leader in the use of ICT and new media for peacebuilding. 

As a Fellow of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Sanjana looks at issues related to Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and peacebuilding. Sanjana is a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland and in this capacity seeks to mainstream the use of ICTs in and for global policymaking and best practices in crisis information management, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. In 2008, Sanjana was the first Sri Lankan to be awarded an Ashoka Foundation News and Knowledge Entrepreneurs Fellowship in support of his pioneering work in new media for conflict resolution. 

Sanjana is Editor of Groundviews (www.groundviews.org), a pioneering and award-winning web based citizen journalism initiative in Sri Lanka.

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Email: sanjanah at gmail dot com