The splendid career and the many glittering prizes won by Jayantha Dhanapala is common knowledge and does not require reiteration here. Rather I wish to focus on the man himself in this tribute to an ...

At this year’s Convocation, the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) honoured the late Jayantha Dhanapala “for his invaluable contribution to diplomacy and his unwavering commitment to ...

Jayantha Dhanapala (1938-2023) is a former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs who served as the 11 th President of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and ...

Even for a young man in distant Sri Lanka, the reports on the Cuban Missile Crisis in the newspapers and on BBC radio were ominous. But in 1962, there was no television in this developing country to ...

Veteran Sri Lankan diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala passed away yesterday at the age of 85 while receiving treatment at the Kandy National Hospital. Mr Dhanapala was the former United Nations ...

Sri Lanka’s former Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara delivered the inaugural Jayantha Dhanapala memorial oration organised by the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Inistitue on May ...

Colombo, June 4: The Distinguished Sri Lankan diplomat, Jayantha Dhanapala, who died in Kandy on May 27 at the age of 85, brought glory to his native land as one of the prime movers of nuclear ...

Eminent Sri Lanka Foreign Service officer Deshamanya Jayantha Dhanapala passed away, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The late Mr. Dhanapala joined the Sri Lanka Foreign Service in 1965 and had a ...

It is a great pleasure to join you this evening to honour Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament, and recognize his invaluable contributions towards nuclear disarmament ...

Issues of female equality dominated the Women Waging Peace Colloquium Friday, as the week-long conference at the Kennedy School of Government came to a close. Jayantha Dhanapala, under-secretary ...