Kalpani Dambagolla

I am a PhD researcher examining human rights pedagogy in post-conflict Sri Lanka, with a particular focus on how human rights education is contextualized and practiced across formal, non-formal, and informal educational spaces. My research explores how histories of conflict, memory, everyday experiences, and local socio-political realities shape the teaching and learning of human rights in post-conflict contexts.

My work is grounded in interdisciplinary perspectives spanning human rights and multiculturalism, cultural studies, political histories, gender studies, and philosophy. Building on this foundation, my master's research examined women’s war narratives in post-war Sri Lanka and introduced the concept of 'feminist troubled knowledge' as a critical lens for questioning dominant human rights discourses and modes of representation. I have also gained experience teaching human rights education and conducting fieldwork on reconciliation and post-conflict communities in Sri Lanka.