Full Description
This book provides a focused and comprehensive understanding of the conflict surrounding the Rohingya displacement, using a unique peace and conflict transformation viewpoint. Divided into four sections and nineteen chapters, it covers significant themes related to the conflict. It provides an in-depth examination of its security implications, media impact, and the need for a long-term transformation strategy. The authors offer a sharp perspective on the crisis, covering a wide range of topics, including human rights abuses, geopolitics, media influence, and repatriation of the Rohingya. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the conflict, providing readers with a thorough understanding of the Rohingya displacement-related conflict. The authors advocate for a peaceful end to the conflict through repatriation, offering valuable conflict transformation tools for decision-makers in Bangladesh and around the world. This book is essential for anyone seeking a deeper understandingof the conflict's security implications and highlights original research from academics on the role of the media. It is relevant for scholars, politicians, decision-makers in the security and refugee management fields, academics studying the media, and humanitarian actors.
Contents
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage and Addressing Conceptual Issues.- Part I: Historical Context and Ethnic Identity.- Chapter 2: A History of Rohingya Displacement, Rohingya Ethnicity, and Contested Identity in Myanmar and Bangladesh.- Chapter 3: The Continuing History of Rohingya Settlement in Bangladesh.- Part II: Conflict Dynamics and Security Implications.- Chapter 4: Exploring Post-settlement Social Dynamics and Conflict Between the Host Community and Rohingyas.- Chapter 5: Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Economic and Environmental Conflict Potential.- Chapter 6: Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Regional and International Conflict Potential.- Chapter 7: Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Sociopolitical Conflict Potential.- Chapter 8: The Rohingya Crisis: Its Geopolitical Context and Security Ramifications.- Chapter 9: Military Coup d'état, State of Anarchy, and the Future of Ethnic Armed Resistance vis-à-vis Reconciliation in Myanmar.- Chapter 10: Crime and Securitization Conundrums in the Rohingya Camps.- Part III - Media Narratives and Propaganda in Conflict.- Chapter 11: Media, Propaganda, and the Othering Process of the Rohingyas.- Chapter 12: "Framing" the Rohingya Crisis: Mainstream Media Coverage and Shifting Narratives.- Part IV: Right to Return, Rehabilitation, Peacebuilding, and Camp Management.- Chapter 13: Displaced Rohingya Management in Bangladesh and Law Enforcement Agencies' Role.- Chapter 14: Social Cohesion and Integration of Rohingyas in the Host Community in Bangladesh.- Chapter 15: Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees: Prospects and Challenges.- Chapter 16: Updates on Rohingya Repatriation to Myanmar: The Tale of a Never-Ending Process.- Chapter 17: Rohingya Relocation to Bhasan Char Island: A Sustainability Assessment.- Chapter 18: Civic Education as Peacebuilding in the Rohingya Refugee Camps.- Chapter 19: Conclusion.
