:: JD : Writings & Statements ::

“Sri Lanka as a Member of the United Nations”

Keynote Address at the Seminar Hosted by The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES – Colombo), The United Nations Country Office in Sri Lanka and The United Nations Development Programme Regional Office for Asia held in Colombo on November 15th 2007

“Mainstreaming Human Rights, Responsibilities and Duties”

Second Max Perutz Memorial Human Rights Lecture
Eighth Biennial Meeting of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies
Colombo, 5 April 2007

“International Law, Security, and Weapons of Mass Destruction”

Showcase Program, 2002 Spring Meeting of the Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association, New York,9 May 2002
http://www.lcnp.org/disarmament/Speeches/ dhanapalasabaspeech.htm

“Globalization and the Nation State, A Cartography of Governance: Exploring the Role of Environmental NGOs”

University of Colorado Law School at Boulder, Colorado, 07 April 2001
Later published in the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law & Policy, Volume 13, Number 1 (2002).

“Constitutional Promises and Electoral Politics: Do they make a difference for the poor?”

An International Symposium on Third World Development, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 16, 1996