Our People

Dr. K.M.Parivelan - Advisory Board Member (Research)

Professor and Associate Dean School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at Woxsen University. Previously he had served at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for facilitating the Post-Tsunami recovery and at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and facilitated the voluntary repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees as part of peace process.

Interests include Global Citizenship Education; International Humanitarian Law; Disaster management: Policy and Practices/ DRR; Refugees Protection/ Policy Advocacy & Statelessness Issues; Forced Migration/ Displacement; Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution/ Transformation; International Relations/ Foreign Policy

Vadivel Raj Sundaram (Executive Director)

Graduated in MPhil International Peace Studies from Irish School of Ecumenics Trinity College Dublin. Researcher interests in Global Citizenship Education, Social integration and social diversity management, human cultural capabilities in creative economy and positive peacebuilding

Dr. Nandini Gupta (Research Director) 

Graduated from from Irish School of Ecumenics Trinity College Dublin. She was Andrew Grene Scholar supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She was a Research Assistant in EU funded project H2020 “Pericles” and currently working with another European project “PAVE”. She is very much interested in promoting community mindfulness workshops and her research outcome brings out the waves of sustainable change and practices of inclusion in society.

Khurram Iqbal (Community Work Director)

Holds Certificate degree in Asylum and Immigration Law from School of Law, Irish Law Society in Dublin, Ireland, member in United Kashmir Peace Forum and active social worker.

Interests include community development & peace building and other rights advocacy groups



Omar Faroque Newton (Financial Director) 

As a social activist work with marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Interest in promoting multi-cultural languages in Ireland and promoting International Mother Language Day celebration in Ireland.