Jayadeva Uyangoda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Sri Lankan political scientist
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Place of Birth: Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
About Jayadeva Uyangoda
- Jayadeva Uyangoda is a political scientist and constitutional expert in Sri Lanka. Uyangoda Maha Radage Jamis as his name appeared in the birth certificate,Uyangoda was a leftist student leader and a member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) movement in the 1970s.
- He was arrested following the aborted insurrection of 1971 and was imprisoned by the courts.
- Later he was released with other JVP rebels on an unconditional pardon by the newly appointed Jayawardena Regime in late 1970s.
- Having released from the jail,he did 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 worked with Dr.
- Neelan Tiruchelvam in drafting the model constitution in 1999. As of May 2012, Uyangoda is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Colombo and Founder-Director of the Centre for Policy Research and Analysis, Colombo.
- He is a former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation, Colombo. He was the Founder Editor and later co-editor of Pravada, an academic journal in English that focuses on Sri Lanka and South Asia.
- He continues to write prolifically in Sinhala and English.
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