Oshan Gunathilake is a transdisciplinary peace education and development practitioner from Sri Lanka with years of experience in peacebuilding, transformative education, and community development in the Asia-Pacific. Oshan's interests include nonviolence, decolonization, restorative practice, and Community-based Solutions. Oshan strongly believes in alternatives to existing structures and practices and dedicates his research to alternative development concepts such as Buen Vivir and alternative justice based on indigenous restorative practices. Oshan advocates for holistic educational reforms that build on sustainable social transformation through critical empowerment. As a development practitioner, educator, and facilitative trainer in peace and development, he has experience collaborating with private, government, and community-based stakeholders from local and global levels.