- Jayadeva Uyangoda
Jayadeva Uyangoda is a prominent
political scientist and constitutional expert inSri Lanka .As a
leftist student leader and a member ofJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) movement in the 70s, he was arrested and imprisoned by the government. After the change of regime he went on do his doctoral research in the University of Hawaii on ‘Nationalism and State Formation in Bangladesh. He remains one of Sri Lanka's most controversial commentators on ethnic conflict and human rights. He was involved withDr.Neelan Tiruchelvam in drafting the model constitution in 1999.He is presently Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the
University of Colombo ; and Director,Center for Policy Alternatives , Colombo. He is former Chairman of theSri Lanka Foundation ,Colombo .He was the Founder Editor and later coeditor of
Pravada , an academic journal in English that focuses on Sri Lanka and South Asia. He continues to write prolifically in Sinhala and English.He was for two periods in the 1980s a resident of the intellectual neighbourhood of
Welikadawatte .
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