- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- jayasundara@iss.nl
Profile
My research and teaching focuses broadly on the inter-connections of Governance, Development, Violent conflict and Peace(building). More specifically, I am interested in politics of war and peace, state building, trauma and psychosocial healing in post-war contexts, war economy, dynamics and challenges in post-war transitions, security sector reform in post-war scenarios, civil-military Relations, external interventions in fragile and conflict areas, visual peace research, nexus of media and violent conflict and gender and security.
South Asia and Sri Lanka are my main geographical areas of specialization, but I have developed thematic expertise on conflict and peace in other geographical areas as well.
I hold a PhD in Development Studies from International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, MA Degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA, Graduate Certificate on Peace Research from Oslo University, Norway and BA (Hons.)in International Relations from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Shyamika Jayasundara (2022) - An Uneasy Hegemony: Politics of Statebuilding and Struggles for Justice in Sri Lanka - doi: 10.1017/9781009199230
- Jovana Jeremic & Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits (2022) - Long after Dayton: a journey through visual representations of war and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 22 (3), 335-360 - doi: 10.1080/14683857.2022.2035486 - [link]
- Shyamika Jayasundara (2022) - The Rajapakse family's tighetening grip on Sri Lanka - [link]
- Shyamika Jayasundara (2022) - Politico-religious extremism and violence against women in Sri Lanka: Extremism and gender-based violence in South Asia
- Salma Yusuf & Shyamika Jayasundara (2021) - Trends in the Judiciary Interviews with Judges Across the Globe - [link]
- Helen Hintjens, Shyamika Jayasundara & Ali Bilgic (2021) - Migration, Security and Development
- Shyamika Jayasundara - Smits (2020) - Tamil diaspora activism in the post-liberal international order: navigating politics and norms - Globalizations - doi: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1850403 - [link]
- Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits (2020) - EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies! - European Security, 30 (1), 85-111 - doi: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1825218 - [link]
- Shyamika Jayasundara - Smits (2020) - Sri Lanka marching towards authoritarian security politics - [link]
- Shyamika Jayasundara - Smits (2019) - President Sirisena's political war on drugs - [link]
4217 Conflict Analysis
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4217-22-23
4313 (Politics of) Media Representations
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4313-22-23
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-22-23
Major SJP
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-SJP-22-23
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-22-23
General Information
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-22-23
4153 Cont Perspectives on Social Justice
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4153-22-23
