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Book Chapters:
Ranasinghe, P. P. & Mezzanotti, G. (2024). Critical Climate Justice, The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Struggles towards Biocentric Transitions: A Critical Discourse Study on the Greenpeace Nordic Case, In L.mJubilut, F. Rai and G. Garcez (Eds.), Justiça Climática e Vulnerabilidade. Editora Foco. books.google.lk/books?id=T_AOEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_vpt_buy#v=onepage&q&f=false
Ranasinghe, P. P. & Gunawardana, A. (2023). Small State Diplomacy for Wetland Conservation: Bilateral Partnership between Singapore and Sri Lanka, In Cooke, Attanayake & Iyer (Eds.), Singapore and Sri Lanka at 50: Perspectives from Sri Lanka. Sarasavi Publishers.
Mezzanotti, G., & Ranasinghe, P. P. (2022). Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sri Lanka’s Challenges Implementing SDG16. In Å. Valen-Sendstad & J. S. Kumara (Eds.), Human Rights and Reconciliation in the Post-Conflict Multicultural Society in Sri Lanka. S. Godage & Brothers. http://pgihs.ac.lk/downloads/books/5%20%20chapter.pdf
Ranasinghe, P. P., & Valen-Sendstad, A. d. (2022). The Right to Participation: Reflections on Young People’s Participation in Climate Protests in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. In Å. Valen-Sendstad & J. S. Kumara (Eds.), Human Rights and Reconciliation in the Post-Conflict Multicultural Society in Sri Lanka. S. Godage & Brothers. http://pgihs.ac.lk/downloads/books/11%20chapter.pdf
Master Thesis:
Master's Thesis titled "Towards Pluriversal Approaches to Rights of Nature and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Judicial Decisions from Ecuador, Kenya and India" (June, 2023). https://openarchive.usn.no/usn-xmlui/handle/11250/3074810
Working Papers:
Ranasinghe, P. P., & Gunawardana, A. (2021). Sri Lanka’s Port City Economic Commission Act: A Social-Legal Insight (ISAS Working Papers, Issue 346). https://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/WP-346.pdf
Ranasinghe, P. P. & Silva, D. (2023). A Study on the Implications of Social Factors on Community Mediation in Sri Lanka (Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Peradeniya. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366878717_A_Study_on_the_Implications_of_Social_Factors_on_Community_Mediation_in_Sri_Lanka
Other Contributions:
Advocacy Report titled "Understanding Interconnections between Human Rights and Economic Crimes in Sri Lanka: Exploring Issues and Potential Ways Forward" (Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 2024). http://www.cpalanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Economic-Crimes-Advocacy-Report.pdf
Co-authored abstract on “The Role of the Judiciary in Balancing Developmental Rights and Environmental Rights in Sri Lanka: a ‘Band-aid’ or a ‘Cure’?” presented at the Peradeniya University International Research Sessions (i-purse), November 2021). https://site.pdn.ac.lk/ipurse/2021/docs/iPURSE2021-Programme.pdf
Co-authored extended abstract on “Role of NGOs in balancing environmental rights within Chinese funded Mega Development Projects in Sri Lanka” presented at the 7th International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (March 21, 2021). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3808949
Contributor to the book “A Review of the Southern Border of Sinharaja: Contemporary needs against Conservation” published by the Environmental Foundation Limited (2018). ISBN 978-955-8302-12-5
Author of “The Role of Counter-Terrorism Legislation in Post-War Sri Lanka: Legislation as an Attempt to Normalize an Exception?” Undergraduate Research Congress (November 29, 2018), vol. III. ISSN 2536-8966
Ranasinghe, P. P. & Mezzanotti, G. (2024). Critical Climate Justice, The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Struggles towards Biocentric Transitions: A Critical Discourse Study on the Greenpeace Nordic Case, In L.mJubilut, F. Rai and G. Garcez (Eds.), Justiça Climática e Vulnerabilidade. Editora Foco. books.google.lk/books?id=T_AOEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_vpt_buy#v=onepage&q&f=false
Ranasinghe, P. P. & Gunawardana, A. (2023). Small State Diplomacy for Wetland Conservation: Bilateral Partnership between Singapore and Sri Lanka, In Cooke, Attanayake & Iyer (Eds.), Singapore and Sri Lanka at 50: Perspectives from Sri Lanka. Sarasavi Publishers.
Mezzanotti, G., & Ranasinghe, P. P. (2022). Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sri Lanka’s Challenges Implementing SDG16. In Å. Valen-Sendstad & J. S. Kumara (Eds.), Human Rights and Reconciliation in the Post-Conflict Multicultural Society in Sri Lanka. S. Godage & Brothers. http://pgihs.ac.lk/downloads/books/5%20%20chapter.pdf
Ranasinghe, P. P., & Valen-Sendstad, A. d. (2022). The Right to Participation: Reflections on Young People’s Participation in Climate Protests in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. In Å. Valen-Sendstad & J. S. Kumara (Eds.), Human Rights and Reconciliation in the Post-Conflict Multicultural Society in Sri Lanka. S. Godage & Brothers. http://pgihs.ac.lk/downloads/books/11%20chapter.pdf
Master Thesis:
Master's Thesis titled "Towards Pluriversal Approaches to Rights of Nature and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Judicial Decisions from Ecuador, Kenya and India" (June, 2023). https://openarchive.usn.no/usn-xmlui/handle/11250/3074810
Working Papers:
Ranasinghe, P. P., & Gunawardana, A. (2021). Sri Lanka’s Port City Economic Commission Act: A Social-Legal Insight (ISAS Working Papers, Issue 346). https://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/WP-346.pdf
Ranasinghe, P. P. & Silva, D. (2023). A Study on the Implications of Social Factors on Community Mediation in Sri Lanka (Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Peradeniya. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366878717_A_Study_on_the_Implications_of_Social_Factors_on_Community_Mediation_in_Sri_Lanka
Other Contributions:
Advocacy Report titled "Understanding Interconnections between Human Rights and Economic Crimes in Sri Lanka: Exploring Issues and Potential Ways Forward" (Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 2024). http://www.cpalanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Economic-Crimes-Advocacy-Report.pdf
Co-authored abstract on “The Role of the Judiciary in Balancing Developmental Rights and Environmental Rights in Sri Lanka: a ‘Band-aid’ or a ‘Cure’?” presented at the Peradeniya University International Research Sessions (i-purse), November 2021). https://site.pdn.ac.lk/ipurse/2021/docs/iPURSE2021-Programme.pdf
Co-authored extended abstract on “Role of NGOs in balancing environmental rights within Chinese funded Mega Development Projects in Sri Lanka” presented at the 7th International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (March 21, 2021). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3808949
Contributor to the book “A Review of the Southern Border of Sinharaja: Contemporary needs against Conservation” published by the Environmental Foundation Limited (2018). ISBN 978-955-8302-12-5
Author of “The Role of Counter-Terrorism Legislation in Post-War Sri Lanka: Legislation as an Attempt to Normalize an Exception?” Undergraduate Research Congress (November 29, 2018), vol. III. ISSN 2536-8966
Modules and Book Projects
Author of the training manual "Empowering RTI Women Networks in the Central and Eastern Province" for the RTI and Women Empowerment Project conducted by the Right to Information Commission. (2024).
Author of the children’s book titled “Finding the Mighty Little Girl in the Land of Machines”. This book is published by the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka (January, 2022). Details are available at WNPS Youth Wing.
Author of the four lesson modules on the "Right to Information", "Freedom of Expression", "Gender in New Media" and "Digital Citizenship" published by HELVETAS Intercooperation gGmbH (February, 2022). Read them here, Right to Information, Freedom of Expression, Gender in New Media, Digital Citizenship.
Author of the children’s book titled “Finding the Mighty Little Girl in the Land of Machines”. This book is published by the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka (January, 2022). Details are available at WNPS Youth Wing.
Author of the four lesson modules on the "Right to Information", "Freedom of Expression", "Gender in New Media" and "Digital Citizenship" published by HELVETAS Intercooperation gGmbH (February, 2022). Read them here, Right to Information, Freedom of Expression, Gender in New Media, Digital Citizenship.
Op-Eds
Impact of Internet Intermediaries on Digital Spaces and Human Rights (2023), read here.
Economic Crisis and the cost of human lives in Sri Lanka (2022), read here.
Co-authored Op-ed on the Refugee Hierarchy in Western Responses to the Ukrainian Crisis (2022), read here.
Implications of the populist frenzy in the 2019 Presidential Election in Sri Lanka (2019), read here.
The Pandemic and Inequities in Education in Sri Lanka (2020), read here.
Co-authored Op-ed on The Political Implications of the 19th Amendment and the Emerging Politico-legal crisis in Sri Lanka (2018), read here.
Economic Crisis and the cost of human lives in Sri Lanka (2022), read here.
Co-authored Op-ed on the Refugee Hierarchy in Western Responses to the Ukrainian Crisis (2022), read here.
Implications of the populist frenzy in the 2019 Presidential Election in Sri Lanka (2019), read here.
The Pandemic and Inequities in Education in Sri Lanka (2020), read here.
Co-authored Op-ed on The Political Implications of the 19th Amendment and the Emerging Politico-legal crisis in Sri Lanka (2018), read here.
Op-Eds on Environmental Issues
Tackling Climate Vulnerabilities in the Farming Sector, read here.
Wedithalathive Nature Reserve and the Environmental Rule of Law, read here.
Chaos in Wilpattu in 2020, read here.
The Controversy in Wilpattu 2017, read here.
(Co-authored) Importance of Environmental Impact Assessment and the Sri Lankan Coasts, read here.
(Co-authored) Is Sri Lanka ready for a Climate Strike Movement, read here.
Schooling of conservation awareness by the WNPS Youth Wing in Sri Lanka, read here.
Looking through the environmental lens of unregulated tourism, read here.
Technicalities of the ban on plastic bags, read here
Lip Service of the Polythene ban in Sri Lanka, read here
Sri Lankan Solid Waste Management theory and ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ , read it here.
Wedithalathive Nature Reserve and the Environmental Rule of Law, read here.
Chaos in Wilpattu in 2020, read here.
The Controversy in Wilpattu 2017, read here.
(Co-authored) Importance of Environmental Impact Assessment and the Sri Lankan Coasts, read here.
(Co-authored) Is Sri Lanka ready for a Climate Strike Movement, read here.
Schooling of conservation awareness by the WNPS Youth Wing in Sri Lanka, read here.
Looking through the environmental lens of unregulated tourism, read here.
Technicalities of the ban on plastic bags, read here
Lip Service of the Polythene ban in Sri Lanka, read here
Sri Lankan Solid Waste Management theory and ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ , read it here.
Presentations
Commentary on Sri Lanka’s Port City Economic Commission Act: A Social-Legal Insight, watch it here.
