About the Author

K.M. de Silva's publications include Social Policy and Missionary Organisations in Ceylon, 1840-55 (1965), Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-ethnic Societies: Sri Lanka, 1880-1985 (1986), Regional Powers and Small State Security: India and Sri Lanka, 1977-1990 and Reaping the Whirlwind: Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Politics in Sri Lanka (1998). He has been editor of Ethnic Studies Report and one of the editors of the International Journal of Group Rights. He was selected as the Academic Prize Laureate (2002) of the 13th Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes. Professor de Silva is the first Sri Lankan Fukuoka Laureate.