Jude Lal Fernando is a campaigner and peace activist who coordinated the People’s Tribunal of Sri Lanka. He teaches interreligious theology and ethics at the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College Dublin, and directs the Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice. His publications include Religion, Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Interpretation of Nationhoods (Lit Verlag, 2013), and Resistance to Empire and Militarization: Reclaiming the Sacred (Equinox, 2020).
Jude joins Pádraig to talk about nationalism, colonialism, interreligious conflict, and his work as a peace activist in Sri Lanka. You can find a transcript and discussion questions here.