Chulani Kodikara

Chulani Kodikara currently works as an independent researcher and is also part of the editorial collective of Polity, the English-language magazine of the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) in Sti Lanka. Her research explores law as a site of women’s struggles for justice and equality, gender, feminism and ethnonationalism and the translation or vernaculariation of international norms in specific contexts in Sri Lanka. Previously, she has worked with institutions such as the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms, the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process, Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka. She completed her PhD on the struggle for truth and justice being waged by Tamil women next-of-kin of the disappeared at the University of Edinburgh in 2022.