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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hemdj" data-source="post: 4192702" data-attributes="member: 138292">OBAGE DANAGANEEMA PINISA SHIRAL GANA BIDAK <img src="http://www.lankatruth.com/sin/images/photos/Political/Parties/UNP/shiral_laktilaka.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />            <a href="http://images.google.lk/imgres?imgurl=http://shiral.net/images/logo.gif&imgrefurl=http://shiral.net/contacts.php&usg=__fsJswkCS4rKU5FjqTUMdy6PId58=&h=72&w=213&sz=8&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=xLdKyh1a4GJyRM:&tbnh=36&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSHIRAL%2BLAKTHILAKA%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG" target="_blank">http://images.google.lk/imgres?imgurl=http://shiral.net/images/logo.gif&imgrefurl=http://shiral.net/contacts.php&usg=__fsJswkCS4rKU5FjqTUMdy6PId58=&h=72&w=213&sz=8&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=xLdKyh1a4GJyRM:&tbnh=36&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSHIRAL%2BLAKTHILAKA%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG</a><img src="http://shiral.net/images/logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Western Provincial Council election is around the corner and we need to think carefully who we're going to choose. We need to make a wise move. We need to select a group of people who are intelligent, who won't try to build their own bank accounts instead of the country and the economy. We need to make a change for our country and we have to start it with this coming PC election. Think wise be smart..vote for Shiral Lakthilaka. Shiral Virantha Lakthilaka, who’s a lawyer by profession, was born in Matara on the 17th of September 1963 to Mr. D.N.Lakthilaka, Divisional Officer, Agrarian-Services Department and Mrs. Preethi Hema Lakthilaka. He’s the youngest in a family of four children, his other siblings being three older sisters. He received his basic education at Rahula College, Matara, where he excelled in studies as well as athletics and was a member of the Cadet Corps in addition to being a school prefect. He was able to win Sri Lankan School Athletic Colours in 1981. He also played football at school level and later was a member of the Matara District Football squad and played in several front line interclub football matches in the island. Shiral completed his school education after getting through the GCE (A/L) Examination in the field of Biology & opted to study Law in the University of Colombo and obtained his LLB in 1991. Later in 2003, he also obtained a Masters’ Degree in International Law and Conflict Studies from the Universities of Arcadia and Temple in Philadelphia, USA. In the relevant dissertation, he enunciated the Law regarding the setting up of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the consequent trade and technology-related conflicts that would emerge in the Developing World. In addition, he has obtained the following educational qualifications: • Diploma in Diplomacy Training with regard to Human Rights and UN Activities conducted by the University of New South Wales, Australia- 1994. • Diploma Course on Theory and Practice of Human Rights conducted by the Law College of Bangalore. • Certificate Course on Institutional Development and Organizational Strengthening organized by the South Asia Branch of the Management for Development Foundation (MDF). • Certificate Course in Institutional Development and Organizational Strengthening, organized by the Institute of Federalism, University of Friebourg, Switzerland during its Autumn/ Spring Semester for the European Region-2004. • Training at a workshop on Future Scenario Development-based Planning, conducted by United Services of India, a development and research organization coming under the umbrella of the Indian Defence Establishment. Shiral, played a pivotal leadership role in the Independent Students’ Union in his University days & was in the forefront in the struggle to banish ‘ragging’ from University life. He held several elected positions in the Law Faculty Students’ Union and most likely would have been its President if not for the closure of the University in that dark era of 1989. He was drawn at that time to the Marxist stream of political thinking & considers the late student leader, Daya Pathirana, who was assassinated for his participation in students’ politics, as the most noteworthy inspiration for his left-wing thinking. Shiral also played Rugby Football for the University of Colombo and was awarded colours in that sphere in 1987. He was also a member of the University Football team. He holds a strong opinion on the urgent need to utilize conflict resolution techniques and mechanisms to solve the multi-ethnic and cultural conflict that is prevalent in Sri Lanka & also plays a major role in the relevant local and international discussions on the subject. He has expounded this viewpoint at several international conferences convened for the discussion of the topic while writing extensively on the subject in the local and foreign media. He is always at hand to offer a critical presentation of his views on Peace, Democracy and Development over a variety of Television and Broadcasting channels Shiral who in 2000, functioned as a Consultant to the Ministry of Industries and Constitutional Affairs, has undertaken several researches on Industrial Development in Sri Lanka. The loan scheme which was launched for the benefit of small and medium-scale industrialists and the “Wasantha Udanaya” programme, are two of the Projects initiated under his supervision that are being appreciated even today. The mobile ‘Furniture Stall’ of Moratuwa that was inaugurated during this period is still popular throughout the country. Later, he was appointed as Consultant to the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs at the height of the Peace Process of the UNP Government. One unforgettable landmark in Shiral’s life was the unrelenting effort that was focused on creating and molding the Peace Building Project of the Ministry with a view to strengthen the Peace Process and achieve a just and sustainable peace in the country through a process of negotiation. Shiral also intervened in the Peace Process advocating the use of scientific methods of conflict resolution & worked diligently to help focus world attention on the Process while representing Sri Lanka at several international conferences. He has been functioning as a political analyst and critic since 1994 and has channelled such opinions through various media to the masses. He has also held positions at several local and international civil society organisations at Consultancy/Management level. The micro-credit and savings scheme initiated by Shiral Lakthilaka during the period 2001-2007, with a view to alleviate urban poverty and distribute the resultant dividends among the masses, could be considered as the most laudatory of the projects undertaken by him during this period. Shiral with his lengthy experience as a Researcher has published many important documents, with the most prominent ones, being the Study of Issues relating to Internal Democracy in the Political Parties in Sri Lanka and an Objective Study of Buddhist Philosophy and Notions of Western Methodology of Conflict Resolution. </blockquote>

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