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Profile:
• Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1964.
• From 1985: Studies at the University of Alabama.
• Ph.D. Research Fellow, the United Nations University, Tokyo, 1996-1997.
• Ph.D. in Political Science, the University of Alabama, 1998.
• Senior Researcher, the International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), 1998-2000.
• Senior Research Fellow, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, 2000-2003.
• Visiting Professor, University of Konstanz, 2002-2003.
• Since 2003: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU.