Sunil Kariyakarawana

Dr. Sunil Kariyakarawana obtained his B.A. honour’s degree (first class) in Linguistics, Literature and Philosophy from the University of Kelaniya in 1983. In 1985, he won the Commonwealth Postgraduate scholarship offered by the Commonwealth Association of Canada and completed his Masters in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. In 1987, he was offered a teaching assistantship by the Cornell University, New York, and obtained his PhD in Theoretical Linguistics and Cognitive Studies in 1992. In the same year, he was offered a senior lecturer position by the University of Kelaniya and worked there until April 2000. In April 2000, he won two international postdoctoral fellowships: one to take up research in child language acquisition at the Rikkyo University Tokyo, Japan and the other by the Association of Commonwealth Universities UK to take up research in Clinical Linguistics at the University College London.
Having completed both research projects, in 2002, he joined the department of Language and Communication Science, City University of London teaching clinical linguistics to B.Sc. students. He is currently the Buddhist Adviser at St Michael’s College Cardiff University and the Director Kalyana Mitra, Buddhist Chaplaincy Support Group. He also is an executive member of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) established by the Asoka Mission of India. He has been in his new post as the first Buddhist Chaplain to the Her Majesty’s British Armed Forces for the past 14 years.
Posts by the contributor
GCIII Commentary: a Buddhist perspective on the treatment of prisoners of war
7 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / GCIII Commentary / Generating Respect for IHL / History / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Law and Conflict / Religion Asanga Tilakaratne, Peter Harvey, Sunil Kariyakarawana & Andrew Bartles-Smith