Promoting Peace and Protecting Rights: How human rights can be good, and bad, for resolving conflict?

Ram Manikkalingam is the Founder of Dialogue Advisory Group and teaches at the University of Amsterdam. He was Senior Advisor on the Peace Process to the previous President of Sri Lanka. He has served as an Advisor with Ambassador rank at the Sri Lanka Mission to the UN in New York. Prior to this he was an Advisor on International Security to the Rockefeller Foundation. He has a doctorate in political philosophy and a bachelors degree in Physics from MIT.  He has been a political activist in Sri Lanka for many years.