Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi

	Dr.Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi is a lecturer in Religion and Conflict, involved in cross cultural relations and dialogue processes at the St. Philip’s Centre for Study and Engagement, Leicester, UK. He engages with centre’s numerous programmes of equipping all sections of the religious, cultural and ethnic communities. He obtained his PhD on majority-minority ethnic and religious conflict at the Melbourne College of Divinity, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founder Coordinator of the Luton Council of Faiths, Bedfordshire, UK and his research interests are in Diaspora communities, their religious affiliations in UK, Europe, Australia and their social adjustment processes. He focuses on radicalisation of religious faith, land, history and notions of chosen-ness as political tools to redress and quest for identity. He has published widely on related t opics.

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