Colombo Institute for Human Sciences is a think tank and research organization located in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka in close proximity to the country’s political and administrative capital, Sri Jayawardena Pura. Colombo Institute aims to provide an enabling environment to create intellectual rigor and innovative thinking in areas of socio-cultural knowledge production in Sri Lanka through a holistic approach. It works as a small alternative forum for thinking, working and conducting regular conversations across South Asia and the world.

More specifically, Colombo provides the intellectual space to conduct specific research in cultural and social domains; undertake developmental research and consultancies when and where needed; enabling publications in academic fields in social sciences and humanities with a focus on theory; offering space and avenues for creative writing and publications; the production of films, podcasts and other electronic media-based tools for dissemination of knowledge; translations into Sinhala and Tamil academic and creative writing that are considered relevant to Sri Lanka; teaching specific themes in social sciences and humanities, and finally creating research and intellectual networks across South Asia and beyond.

Moe information is available from its website, currently under construction: https://www.colomboinstitute.lk/

It can be reached via email at: info@colomboinstitute.lk; secretary@colomboinstitute.lk; chairman@colomboinstitute.lk