FY-2004 IV PROGRAM: SRI LANKAN NOMINATION FOR

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 001133 SIPDIS STATE FOR MARGERY BENSON/ SEQUITA ROBINSON; INFO: ECA/PE/V/G/N-ALICE SHIFFLETT; SA/PD E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OEXC SCUL KPAO OEXC SUBJECT: FY-2004 IV PROGRAM: SRI LANKAN NOMINATION FOR MRP ON "PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION": APRIL 29-MAY 20, 2004 PROJECT NUMBER: E/VGN-2004-0022 REF: (A) STATE 079203, (B) COLOMBO 0676 ¶1. POST NOMINATES MR. W. UPUL JOSEPH FERNANDO, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR POLITICAL EDUCATION, FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. ¶2. NOMINATION IS AS FOLLOWS: START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be : edited except by means of the Post-EVDB software. EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB VERSION: 3.0.5 POST-EMAIL: rscmb@pd.state.gov TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Colombo TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 2929 EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA START NOMINATION: ECA-OFFICE: E/VGN PROG-AGENCY-NAME: POST-PROJ-ID: 95 ECA-PROJ-NO: E/VP-2004-0022 PROJ-NAME: Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution - April 29-May 20, 2004 START MEMO PROJ-DESC: END MEMO PROJ-DESC: PROJ-TYPE: Multi-Regional PROG-TYPE: IV Grant Visitor FY: 2004 DEPART-POST: 04/27/2004 SESSION-DATE: 04/29/2004 RETURN-POST: 05/23/2004 NO-OF-PART: 1 RANK-ORDER: 11 START MEMO POST-OBJ: This nomination is in support of MPP goal on "Democracy" END MEMO POST-OBJ: START MEMO POST-RCMD: END MEMO POST-RCMD: ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1039 PROG-AGENCY-ID: PROJ-TYPE-ID: MRP PROG-TYPE-ID: 29 NOMINATING-POST-ID: 2929 FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: STATUS: N ORIGINATOR: P SUBJ-DISC: Conflict Resolution START BIO: PREFIX: Mr. F-NAME: W. Upul M-NAME: Joseph L-NAME: FERNANDO SUFFIX: POSITION-CODE: 0 PRINCIPAL?: Yes M-ADDR1: National Academy for Political Education M-ADDR2: Cambridge Terrace M-ADDR3: M-CITY: Colombo 3 M-STATE: M-CNTRY: M-ZONE: M-ZIP: M-PHONE: (94-75) 551-219 M-FAX: M-EMAIL: M-CNTRY-ID: M-ADDRTYPE: B GENDER: M DOB: 10/20/1967 MAR-STAT: S BIRTH-CITY: Ja-Ela BIRTH-CNTRY: Sri Lanka CITIZ-CNTRY: Sri Lanka RES-CNTRY: Sri Lanka START MEMO POSITION: Director, National Academy for Political Education, 2003- to date END MEMO POSITION: START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: Journalist/Political columnist, Lankadeepa (Sinhala daily newspaper) 1993- to date END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 1990-92 - Research Assistant, Institute of Fundamental Studies END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: START MEMO US-TRAVEL: 1999 (one week) - participated in a Voluntary Visitor program END MEMO US-TRAVEL: START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: START MEMO EDUCATION: LL.B., Open University of Sri Lanka, 1995 B.A., University of Colombo, 1996 END MEMO EDUCATION: START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: Member of the Sri Lanka Journalists' Association. END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: Is a regular contributor to the national newspapers on politics and society. END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: FIRST-LANG: Sinhala ENGL-READ: 3 ENGL-SPEAK: 3 ENGL-COMP: 3 START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: This nomination is in support of MPP goal on "Democracy" END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: START MEMO VIS-OBJ: END MEMO VIS-OBJ: START MEMO VIS-REC: END MEMO VIS-REC: NOMINATING-OFFICER: Bruce A. Lohof START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: Mr. Upul Joseph Fernando has been a reputed political coulmnist in the Sinhala press for the past ten years. His interests in politics, especially in conflict studies, has allowed him to head the National Academy for Political Education (NAPE),which is affiliated to the ruling United National Party. NAPE conducts training for budding politicians such as grassroot level political activists, local government and provincial council politicians. Therefore, Mr. Fernando's role as its director is vital to the country's future leaders. In addition to his work at NAPE, he continues to regularly write for the Sinhala press on current political issues, especially on conflict resolution and the peace process. Although he has had a short experience in the U.S. in 1999, this promising young researcher cum journalist should have a properly structured exposure to the U.S. through an IV program such as "Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution." END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: NOM-OFF: Public Affairs SPEAKER?: No NOTIFY-EMB: Yes MEDIA?: No HOME-STAY: Yes HOME-HOSP?: Yes E-I-TYPE: NOMINEE-ID: 129 PERSON-ID: 132 BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: CE CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: CE RES-CNTRY-ID: CE FIRST-LANG-ID: SI E-I-TYPE-ID: NOM-POST-ID: 2929 NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: NOM-STATUS: N DS2019-ACTION: 0 DS2019-SUBJECT: 30.0501 SPONS-FUNDS: 0 SPONS-AGENCY1: USGOVT-AGENCY1: US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 USGOVT-AGENCY2: US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 INTL-ORG1: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 INTL-ORG2: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 COMMISSION: 0 OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-CAT: 5 END BIO: END NOMINATION: END FIXED-FORMAT TEXT: ¶3. PLEASE ADVISE ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOMINATION. CAMP