- ‘The Pharmaceuticalisation of Ethics: Issues of scope and authority in the development of ethical review in South Asia?’ Highlights the challenges faced by Ethics Review Committees in South Asia in an era when clinical trials are mushrooming in the region. The paper is led by Prof.Bob Simpson and co-authored with Deapica Ravindran, Rekha Khatri and Tharindi Udalagama. The paper is published with the journal Social Science and Medicine in March 2014.
Dr. Tharindi Udalagama
Lecturer Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts University of Colombo
Publications
- ‘Group-Violence Against the State: The Hindsight Story of the Thirty-Year War in Sri Lanka’ written with Prof. Premakumara de Silva discusses the development of group-violence in Sri Lanka during the thirty-year civil war. The paper emphasises the factors that lead to such development and the brutal consequences that followed. Published as a book chapter in a special issue on violence within and between demographic groups titled The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence: From Bullies to Terrorists that was published in consequence to the international conference and working group organised by the Virginia Tech Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention in Rabat, Morocco in 2014.
- ‘Escaping to Facebook: Youth’s engagement with web-based social networks in Sri Lanka’ discusses the use of web-based social networks, namely Facebook among the computer literate youth of Sri Lanka. This paper explores the relationship between youth and Facebook and the main reasons that have caused this Highlighting the popular features of Facebook, it is argued that the youth of Sri Lanka uses the virtual games and applications available on Facebook as a means to escape to an alternate reality when the paramount reality is austere. Published in the Sri Lanka Journal for Social Sciences in 2013.
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Group Violence Against the State: The Hindsight Story of the Thirty Year War in Sri Lanka
Publication year: 2014
Situating Evidence in Public Health Interventions: Experiences from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In: IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences), The 17th World Congress of the IUAES Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds
PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Publication year: 2013
Escaping to Facebook : Youth’s Engagement with Web-Based Social Networks in Sri Lanka
Publication year: 2013