Professor Jude Lal Fernando is the Director of Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice and the Programme Coordinator of MPhil in Contextual Theologies and Interfaith Relations at the Irish School of Ecumenics, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies in Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin). He is the author of Religion, Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Interpretation of Nationhoods (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2013), and the editor of Resistance to Empire and Militarization: Reclaiming the Sacred (Sheffield: Equinox, 2020) and Faith in the Face of Militarization: Indigenous, Feminist and Interreligious Voices (Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2021). He has published many articles and given public lectures in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA in promoting a negotiated peace paradigm as opposed to the war paradigm in conflict resolution. His work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Sinhala and Tamil. He has served as the visiting professor in Sophia and Ritsumeikan universities in Japan, Uppsala University in Sweden, Tampere University in Finland, Chang Jung Christian University in Taiwan and Salzburg University in Austria. Currently he is a visiting professor at Global Theological Institute at Yonsei University, Korea. He is the coordinator of the Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka (Dublin 2010, Bremen 2013 and Berlin 2022).