September 21st is the International Day of Peace. The story of one British film maker’s quest to make that day be accepted by the United Nations is an inspirational one. His organization, Peace One Day, tries to create global awareness of the day and promote individual action for peace throughout the world September 21st every […]

Long awaited unlimited HSPA broadband is offered by dialog. Interesting stuff in this initiation is HSPA dongle for 6000 SLR. If you are to buy one, then you need to spend around 18,000 SLR – 20,000 SLR.
Though it is said unlimited download, there is a Fair User Policy which may affect you. Fair user policy […]

Thanks to work we do at BB, I have sat at countless foums, discussions and workshops which eventually ends up talking about Sri Lanka’s conflict. A lot of these discussions have included Colombo-based cosmopolitan youth, and some of them (I’ll even say many) seems to think that Sri Lanka doesn’t have an ethnic conflict. Their […]

The World Youth Day Walk was held as part of the World Youth Congress in Quebec, Canada on the 12th of September 2008.  The walk consisting of more than 600 young people from 120 countries started at the University of Laval, which played host for the WYC and ended in a rally at Old, Quebec. […]

Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe both from the faculty of arts at the University of Colombo spoke at a Beyond Borders study circle in Colombo on how we interpret the construct called “history”. Following are some excerpts from their remarks.
Dr. Nirmal Dewasiri on the relationship between the past and the present :

Prof. […]

Beyond Borders kicked off the inaugural session of a series of  a study circle meetings on the ethnic conflict for young people who are interested in the issues related to the ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka. The Colombo study circle is part of a larger initiative by Beyond Borders which aims to strengthen youth voices […]

First appeared in the Sunday Times Mirror Magazine on 30th March 2008.
One in every six people in the world is a young person. And all over the world, young people almost always have been the first to speak out on issues that are affecting them, and their communities. Be it in the form of a […]

1. Appoint a committee
of professors, such-like.

2. Do extensive consultations and research for years.
Copy-pasting from Youth Policies which have been drafted following extensive consultations and research, also qualifies as “extensive consultation and research.”
3. Launch the policy
If you’ve done the extensive consultation and research as mentioned in step 2, the launch of the draft should be followed […]

BB-ite and the author of the ST Mirror’s Godaya Column, Dinidu De Alwis has started a (somewhat) novel concept aimed at helping the poor - Peer2Peer charity.
Dinidu has this his to say about what he calls The Godaya Initiative on his site :
The Godaya Initiative is a result of one of my travels to Hambantota […]

Are you a drama queen/king? Are you between the ages of 16-26? If you If you answered yes to both questions, then we would like you to be a part of the Beyond Borders Forum Theatre outfit. We are a voluntary youth led youth run organization who use Forum Theatre as a tool to help […]

Architecture, apart from the aesthetic and functional elements it has been associated with, has also been long known to be as an establishment of iconism, authoritarianism, Nepotism and even intimidation.
It has long been used as a tool to demarcate political and geographical boundaries, and even as a brand image in many ways than one.
The several […]

Does the legal system cater to women? Many feminist don’t believe it does. Which could be agreed upon as the law provides inadequate protection for women’s injuries, which are among the most under reported crimes in the world.Why it is that Sexual harassment was not considered an offense for a long time? And pornography is […]