Rajkumar Kanagasingam

Rajkumar Kanagasingam was an officer at CARE International[1] and founded PDIP, a think tank on post-conflict, economic and gender issues, which coordinates in association with the Asian-German Sports Exchange Program (AGSEP) to create awareness on landmine issues in association with the US State Department's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement[2]. He is also writing a book German Memories in Asia[3]. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3000x2000, 355 KB) Rajkumar Kanagasingam, the author the book German Memories in Asa Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3000x2000, 355 KB) Rajkumar Kanagasingam, the author the book German Memories in Asa Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) is one of the largest private international humanitarian organizations in the world, with programmes in over 72 countries. ... Princess Diana Institute of Peace (PDIP) is a think tank which specializes in post-conflict, economic, and gender issues and coordinates with various organizations internationally. ... Conflict is a state of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility between two or more people or groups of people, which is sometimes characterized by physical violence. ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ... The gender symbols used to denote a male or female organism. ... Asian-German Sports Exchange Program ( AGSEP), is a Non-Governmental Organisation, operating in the development political sector in Sri Lanka with a partner office in Essen, Germany. ... Asian-German Sports Exchange Program ( AGSEP), is a Non-Governmental Organisation, operating in the development political sector in Sri Lanka with a partner office in Essen, Germany. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...

Biography

Kanagasingam in a demonstration on a global landmine crisis and world affairs for German university students in Sri Lanka on 3rd November, 2005.

Kanagasingam was raised in the war-torn Jaffna peninsula[4]. He columned for English-language newspapers in Sri Lanka[5][6] and contributed number of articles on Sri Lankan and international issues and lectured on globalization, US economy and international economy at number of seminars[7]. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1818x1228, 445 KB) Rajkumar Kanagasingam in a demonstration on global landmine crisis and world affairs for the German university students at the Night of A Thousand Dinners, an initiative of Adopt-A-Minefield, a program of the United Nations Association of... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1818x1228, 445 KB) Rajkumar Kanagasingam in a demonstration on global landmine crisis and world affairs for the German university students at the Night of A Thousand Dinners, an initiative of Adopt-A-Minefield, a program of the United Nations Association of... U.S. Army soldier removes fuse from a Russian-made mine to clear a minefield outside of Fallujah, Iraq. ... Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil, Jaffna Jaffna (யாழ்ப்பாணம் in Tamil meaning யாழ்=harp, பாணம்=town of harper, යාපනය in Sinhala) the capital city of the Northern Province, Sri Lanka. ... A KFC (originally Kentucky Fried Chicken) franchise in Kuwait. ... Overview The United States has the largest economy by country, second-largest by economic union (after the EU), and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $39,689 (2nd Quarter 2004 annualized) . In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most...

Rajkumar Kanagasingam (Far Right) with Judge Christopher Weeramantry (Third from Right), a former vice president of the International Court of Justice, Dietmar Doering (Fourth from Right), the Founder/Director of the Asian - German Sports Exchange Program (AGSEP), German University Students and others in Sri Lanka on 24th October, 2006.

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1169 KB) Rajkumar Kanagasingam(Extreme Right)with Judge Christopher Weeramantry(Third from Right), a former vice president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague (World Court), Dietamr Doering(Fourth from Right), the Founder/Director of the Asian - German... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1169 KB) Rajkumar Kanagasingam(Extreme Right)with Judge Christopher Weeramantry(Third from Right), a former vice president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague (World Court), Dietamr Doering(Fourth from Right), the Founder/Director of the Asian - German... Judge Christopher Weeramantry Judge Christopher Weeramantry was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 2000, and was Vice-President of the Court from 1997 to 2000, presiding in that capacity over several important cases before the Court, including the case on the illegality of the use... The International Court of Justice (known colloquially as the World Court or ICJ; French: ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. ...

German Memories in Asia

German Memories in Asia is about Kanagasingam's experience growing up in the war-torn Jaffna Peninsula in the northern part of Sri Lanka and working for an American non-governmental organization in the jungles under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and then on a tsunami relief mission with the German university students there. The term non-governmental organization (NGO) is used in a variety of ways all over the world and, depending on the context in which it is used, can refer to many different types of organizations. ... Tamil Tigers emblem The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a military and political organization that has waged a violent secessionist campaign against the Sri Lankan Government since the 1970s in order to secure independence for the Tamil portions of Sri Lanka. ...

The book is a testimony to the German students’ life and fashion in their time in Marawila, a western coastal town of the Island facing the Indian Ocean. Wayamba Province in Sri Lanka North Western Province, or Wayamba as it is known in Sri Lanka is a province of Sri Lanka. ...

External links

• Kanagasingam's blog
• Kangasingam's profile on Ezinearticles.com
• Book information from the Asian-German Sports Exchange Program website
• Ultimate peace or war again? - Daily News Sri Lanka
• Sri Lankan embassy

• US State Department's Safe Passage Newsletter