Asoka Bandarage currently teaches at Georgetown University. Her courses at Georgetown include, Comparative Ethnic and Religious Conflict, Democracy in South Asia, Global Social Movements, Women in International Security and Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Ms. Bandarage was educated at the University of Sri Lanka, Bryn Mawr (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). She has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Macalester and at Mount Holyoke College, MA where she received tenure. Prof. Bandarage is the author of Colonialism in Sri Lanka (Mouton,1983), Women, Population and Global Crisis (Zed,1997) and numerous other publications on South Asia, global political-economy, ethnicity, gender, population, ecology and related topics. Her recent publications include "Sri Lanka" Governments of the World (MacMillan Reference, USA), and "Ethnic and Religious Tension in the World: A Political-Economic Perspective' (Routledge) and ‘The Sri Lankan Conflict: A Multi-Polar Approach’ (Harvard International Review). Her most recent book is The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, Ethnicity, Political Economy (Routledge, 2008). Ms. Bandarage serves on the boards of a number of publications and professional organizations including Critical Asian Studies and The National Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs. She has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work, organized many forums and symposia and presented hundreds of lectures and media interviews around the world in her areas of expertise.
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