TOR044: Search For Common Ground with Saji Prelis

Saji Prelis is the Director for Children & Youth Programmes at Search for Common Ground.  Saji co-leads several policy-level platforms including the UN-Civil Society Inter-Agency Working Group on Youth Participation in Peacebuilding and the Global Partnership to enable children and youth participation in peacebuilding.  Through the UN-CSO Inter-Agency working group, he has co-led the process in developing Guiding Principles for Young People’s Participation in Peacebuilding that was officially launched at the UN on April 24th, 2014 and is currently co-leading the process to develop Operational Guidance on the same topic.

He served as a co-founder and Associate Director at American University's Peacebuilding & Development Institute in Washington, DC and is currently one of the founding members and chair of the board for PDI-SL in Sri Lanka, an internationally recognized South Asia focused training and research Institution. 

Saji was born in Sri Lanka and holds a Master's Degree in International Peace & Conflict Resolution with a Concentration in International Law from American University.