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Featuring Prashan De Visser

Prashan is the Founder and President of Sri Lanka Unites, a youth movement for hope and reconciliation, in Sri Lanka. He is also the Founder and President of Global Unites, an international youth movement for transforming conflict, with established and emerging movements in 13 countries across the world. Sri Lanka Unites is the largest youth movement in the country for peace today ,with over 30,000 members, 50 full time staff and 9 offices across the country. The movement is committed to the cause of post war reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Under Prashan the movement has hosted eleven seasons of Future Leaders’ Conferences for reconciliation to inspire, train and mobilize over 5000 student leaders representing every ethnic and religious group in post war Sri Lanka.  Today SLU has chapters among the Sri Lankan diaspora in Melbourne, Toronto, DC, LA, London, and Wellington.

Prashan completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, where he majored in International Affairs and his MA at the University of Notre Dame in Peace Studies and Public Policy. He was selected as a TEDx speaker at UND and has been featured on NBC, BBC and Al Jazeera for his innovative peacebuilding approach.

He has spoken at international youth conferences in Kenya, Pakistan, India, Australia, Uganda, Rwanda, DRC , Malaysia , Indonesia, Canada , UK and USA. Prashan is a visiting lecturer at Crozer Colgate Seminary, (the alma mater of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King) where he teaches the PhD course on the Theory and Practice of Peacebuilding. He is the author of the book “The Phoenix Generation,” on the role of youth in transforming conflict.

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