Subject: MPhil/PhD enquiry — diaspora-built civic infrastructure as transitional-justice practice

Dear Dr Nadarajah,

I am writing to ask whether you would be open to a short conversation about my September 2026 application to the MPhil/PhD in Politics and International Studies at SOAS.

Under a UK Community Interest Company (TLTE C.I.C., Co. No. 16426152) I have built, over the last two years, a working civic-infrastructure archive on post-conflict accountability in the Tamil-Eelam context: docs.tlte.cloud. It operates under fixed methodological constraints — Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, UCP Manual (2nd ed.), Murad Code, and tiered OHCHR / UN PoE / ICG / PEARL / ITJP citation discipline. It refuses survivor intake, refuses perpetrator naming, refuses count aggregation, and routes at-risk readers to mandated mechanisms.

It is, in effect, a practice-based pilot of the question I want to study formally: what is the legitimate role of diaspora-built civic infrastructure in post-conflict accountability, and where are its hard limits? Your work on Tamil diaspora politics and the limits of liberal peace is the closest fit I have found.

A one-page concept note is attached; the full proposal and a supervisor-facing portfolio live at docs.tlte.cloud/research/for-supervisors.

Would you be open to a brief call?

Kind regards,
M. Santhuru
Founder, TLTE C.I.C. · hello@tlte.cloud · linkedin.com/in/msanthuru