Ishika Millaniyage specializes in youth leadership and community peacebuilding with over 10 years’ experience working with leading local and international civil society organizations such as Sarvodaya movement, Australia Awards – Afghanistan, UNFPA, and is currently attached to Internews Sri Lanka as a senior project officer. During her career as a program coordinator with Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest civil society movement, Ishika has represented Sarvodaya at National Reconciliation Policy drafting consultations and National Transitional Justice taskforce consultations. Ishika holds a MSc. in Project Management from the University of Bedfordshire, UK, a post graduate diploma in Peace and Conflict studies from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is currently pursuing her second BSc. degree in the Psychology stream from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. She has represented Sri Lanka at the Youth Town Hall – Summit for Democracy 2021 organized by Joe Biden administration and has also served as a judge of the Royal Commonwealth Society – the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021. She was a Beyond Borders -Women in Conflict 1325 fellowship recipient in 2020 and is a US Department of State Alumnus; a Community Solutions – Tolerance and Conflict resolution Fellow 2015 and has worked with Little Friends For Peace (LFFP) on peace education curriculum development and facilitating peace building and conflict resolution training. She has also served in the US State Department Community Solutions, and Community Engagement Exchange fellowship program selection panels for five consecutive years since 2017. In 2013, she was appointed by the National Youth Services Council Sri Lanka to serve the Brunei High Commission as a Youth Ambassador during Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Ishika is a volunteer of Sri Lanka Unites Youth movement since 2012 and is also attached to Global Unites, and Centenary Movement as a core team member.

Participant in:

November/December 2020 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes

August 2022 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding