In November 2003, Dr. R. B. Herath was appointed to the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform in British Columbia, CANADA. The Citizens' Assembly consisted of two members from each of the 79 electoral districts of British Columbia. Dr. Herath joined the Assembly from the electoral district of Surrey-Newton, British Columbia.
Dr. Herath's new book (2007), Real Power to the People: A Novel Approach to Electoral Reform in British Columbia, describes this unique experiment in democracy that took place in BC, and draws attention to five important lessons to be drawn from this first time application of the new approach to electoral reform and its worldwide applicability.
More information about the Citizens Assembly is available at www.citizensassembly.bc.ca
Make sure to read about past and upcoming events.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada, forwards R. B. Herath's latest book to the Canadian Embassy in Colombo
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Graham, sends a letter thanking RB Herath of a copy of his book.
October 2002-LacNet/Panhinda Feature
October 2002 - Lankaweb Feature
Lankaweb website is featuring a review of Sri Lankan Ethnic Crisis: Towards a Resolution by London based freelance journalist Tilak Fernando.
Academic LacNet/Panhinda website featured R. B. Herath's new book, Sri lankan Ethnic Crisis: Towards a Resolution, in October 2002 as the Book of the Month.
27 September 2002 - Surrey/North Delta Leader: Local Sri Lankan writer at Vancouver literature fair
R. B. Herath’s Sinhalese poetry unique to festival (Canadian National Book Fair 2002): IT'S A MESSAGE of love and hope - a message Surrey's R. B. Herath is bringing to this year's national book and magazine fair Word on the Street in Vancouver this weekend.
The book R. B. Herath will be reading from is entitled Desappremayen Odavadiwa Darudariyanta Kavivalinma Liyu Lipiyak (translation reads as A Letter to Our Children in Poems Written through Patriotism). It was first published in Sri Lanka in 1979, at a time when the civil strife in Sri Lanka caused by its post-independence language policies was brewing into a separatist war. This collection of poems is a call for mutual love and respect across the borders of ethnicity, language and religion, so that future generations of Sri Lankans may live in peace and harmony. The poems are written in Sinhalese, a vernacular language of Sri Lanka spoken by 74 percent of the country's population.
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