The board members of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) were key contributors at the conference on "Religion and Nationalism" sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School on April 22-23, 2005. The aim of the conference was to assess what lessons the cases of Bosnia, Sudan, and Sri Lanka hold for policy-makers seeking to bring peace and democracy to Iraq. The featured speaker on Sri Lanka was AISLS board member H.L. Seneviratne, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. AISLS board member Anne Blackburn, Professor of Religion at Cornell University, and AISLS members Dr. Vijaya Samaraweera and Dr. John Rogers were also invited participants.