Kumar Ramakrishna is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security, a constituent unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A leading Southeast Asian terrorism specialist, he has published extensively on counter-extremism in Southeast Asia. This article is excerpted under Creative Commons BY-4.0 license from a longer study with extensive references, copyright © 2021 by the author, available at “Deconstructing Buddhist Extremism: Lessons from Sri Lanka,”Religions 12: 970.