个人简介

Janaka Jayawickrama教授出生于斯里兰卡，是一名社会人类学家。他的著作和研究围绕与灾难、冲突和不平衡发展相关的护理、健康和福祉概念而展开。他是《欧洲科学杂志》的高级编辑（自然和医学科学），以及《国际人道主义事务公报》的联合编辑。2014-2016年间，Janaka担任在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的联合国世界人道主义峰会（2016年5月23-24日）顾问。他一直为联合国和国际组织提供有关人道主义事务和发展项目的咨询。 Janaka研究领域广泛，他对很多问题的研究充满热情，如危机中的生活经历如何产生概念;我们如何审视来自亚洲、非洲、拉丁美洲和中东的哲学传统，使其生成理论和实践方法以促进福祉;如何缩小人与自然的差距;以及历史进程和事件对今天的影响是如何联结在一起形成批判的。他有关福祉、包容性和与自然的和谐关系的成果在很多编著中有发表。 Janaka教授本科生和研究生课程。在这些课程中，让学生了解社会学、地理、政治和历史文本中的主要概念(健康和福祉、灾难、发展、网络、关系、伦理等)。Janaka教授的课程包括研究方法、人道主义学、可持续发展、减少灾害风险、社会与空间、全球公共卫生和冲突分析等。Janaka指导了20多名博士研究生和博士后，以及200多名硕士研究生。 Janaka对瑜伽、冥想、中国武术、音乐、艺术、创意文学和电影感兴趣。 Sri Lankan by birth and disposition, Janaka Jayawickrama is a social anthropologist. He is mostly known for his work on concepts of care, health, and wellbeing related to disasters, conflicts, and uneven development. He is a Senior Editor (Natural and Medical Sciences) of the European Scientific Journal, and Co-Editor of the Bulletin of International Humanitarian Affairs. During 2014 – 2016, Janaka has been an Advisor to the United Nation’s World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul, Turkey (23-24 May 2016). He continues to advise the UN and International Agencies on humanitarian affairs and development programmes. Janaka’s research covers a range of fields. He is passionately interested in the question of how lived experiences through crises generate concepts; how we might examine philosophical traditions from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East as generative of theoretical and practical approaches to facilitate wellbeing; how to reduce the gap between human beings and nature; and how the impact of historical processes and events on the present day are joined together in the making of the critical. His work on wellbeing, inclusivity, and the need for harmonious relationship with nature has appeared in many anthologies. Janaka has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in which he collaborates with students to take them through major concepts (health and wellbeing, disasters, development, networks, relations, ethics, etc) embedded in sociological, geographical, political, and historical texts. Janaka has taught courses on Research Methods, Humanitarianism, Sustainable Development, Disaster Risk Reduction, Society and Space, Global Public Health, and Conflict Analysis. Janaka has supervised and mentored more than 20 PhD and postdoctoral students and more than 200 postgraduate students. Janaka is interested in Yoga, meditation, Chinese martial arts, music, arts, creative literature, and movies.