Radhika Hettiarachchi

Radhika is a public historian, researcher, and peacebuilding practitioner with 20 years of experience based in Sri Lanka. She works through art, oral history, and storytelling to facilitate a public discourse on issues of gender, security, justice, and peace. She is the co-founder of the "Herstories project" (www.theherstoryarchive.org), "The Community Memorialisation Project" (www.memorymap.lk), and “The Women’s Histories of Sex Work” focusing on the impact of conflict and sexual violence on sex workers (www.yotube.com/@HerStoryArchives). 

She curated Colombo’s leading festival of arts – Colombo Scope in 2014 and 2015, thematically tackling issues of history, representation, urban development, pluralism, and the political economy. She curated the inaugural "It's About Time' traveling history museum (2019), aimed at challenging public perceptions of ‘history’. She curated ‘Shared Journeys’, a 7-country online exhibition (2021) on ‘decolonising the mind’ by challenging dominant narratives of post-war nation-building and development. She holds a master’s in development management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, U.K.

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