Certificate Course on Humanitarianism, Policy, and Diplomacy

Course Booklet

FEBRUARY 6, 2021-APRIL 10, 2021 Center for Peace Studies South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance North South University

The Center for Peace Studies (CPS)

The Center for Peace Studies (CPS), of South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) is an interdisciplinary initiative, which aims to facilitate the academic study of peacebuilding and the promotion of a resilient society through evidence-based and empirical research at North South University (NSU). The Center aspires to be a hub of academic research and activity in the areas of conflict studies and peace promotion that will have national, regional and global implication. CPS is a platform for academics, researchers and practitioners from diverse academic backgrounds working together to create a peaceful world with a focus on sustainable and inclusive solutions for contemporary humanitarian crises.

CPS has organized this 10-week Certificate Course titled Humanitarianism, Policy, and Diplomacy. The objective of this course is to provide a framework for the participants to help them better understand the role of state and non-state actors in responding to global disasters, crises, and tragedies by coming forward to render assistance to those in distress. The course looks at the policies and politics of humanitarian crises as well as the need for protecting humanity. It also examines legal, moral, and ethical dimensions of global security of all human beings regardless of race, creed, and/or ethnic/political affiliation.

The course will run from February 6, 2021 - April 10, 2021.

The participants have joined from Bangladesh, Canada, Japan, and Italy. They work in different sectors such as teaching, journalism, government, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations. The resource persons are from various universities and international organizations in Bangladesh, Australia, the USA, Thailand, and other countries.

The course has been designed to give an overview of the concepts, principles, and history of humanitarian organizations - their origins, development, and scope of work; conflict resolution and humanitarian initiatives, humanitarian action in climate change and displacement, human rights, and gender issues in the humanitarian crisis, etc. Although this is an online course, one of the most notable aspects of this course is a field visit to the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.

This booklet offers information of the resource persons and the participants.

Inauguration of the Certificate Course

Course Content and Session Plan

Schedule for Certificate Course in Humanitarianism, Policy, and Diplomacy

Date Inauguration: 2.30 – 3.00 pm BST Chair: Professor Atiqul Islam, Vice-Chancellor, NSU 2/6 Guests of Honor: Major Gen Abdul Quayyum Mollah, ndc, psc, Commandant, BIPSOT and H.E. Mr. Earl R. Miller, U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Moderator: Dr. Katherine Li, Course Coordinator and Advisor, CPS 2/6 Day 1 • Dr. Katherine Li, NSU Humanitarian Resource • Dr. Nichole Georgeou, Director, Humanitarian & Concepts, Principles, Persons Development Research Initiative (HADRI), U. of and Institutions Western Sydney

• Professor Sarkar Ali Akkas, NSU 2/13 Day 2 History of • Ambassador Shahidul Haque, NSU Humanitarianism and Resource • Mr. Richard Ragan, UNWFP, Bangladesh its Evolution Persons • R2P: Lt Col Mamun, BIPSOT including the • Mr. Masrur Bin Ansari, ICRC’s Legal Adviser for Responsibility to Bangladesh Protect 2/20 Day 3 Conflict Management • Dr. M Jashim Uddin, NSU Resource and Humanitarian • Peace Operations (PO): Lt. Cdr. Shahriar, BIPSOT Persons Actions • Protection of Civilians (POC): Lt. Col. Mamun, BIPSOT 2/27 Day 4 • Ambassador Shahidul Haque, NSU • Professor Todd Eisenstadt, American University Washington DC Climate Change, Resource • Professor Karl Kim, Displacement, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Persons Humanitarian Actions • Ms. Farah Kabir, ActionAid • Professor Md. Sirajul Islam, NSU • Professor Md. Jakariya, NSU

3/6 Day 5 • Professor William Paul Simmons, University of Arizona Human Rights and • Ms. Kasumi Shirahata, Embassy of Japan, Dhaka Resource Gender in • Ms. Maria Teresa Dico Young, UN Women, Bangladesh Persons Humanitarian Crises • Lt. Col. Rooslan, BIPSOT • Lt. Cdr. Shahriar, BIPSOT

Schedule for Certificate Course in Humanitarianism, Policy, and Diplomacy

Date

3/13 Day 6

Case Studies on • Ambassador Shahidul Haque, NSU Humanitarian Resource • Mr. Arifur Rahman Prodhan, UNHCR Situations such as Persons • Lt. Col. Rooslan, BIPSOT Rwanda, Darfur and • Lt. Col. Mamun, BIPSOT Somalia 3/20 Day 7

• Ambassador Shahidul Haque, NSU • Ambassador Ito Naoki, Embassy of Japan, Dhaka Humanitarian Resource • Ambassador Espen Rikter-Svendsen, Royal Norwegian Diplomacy Persons Embassy in Dhaka • Mr. Ilya Ivanov, ICRC

3/27 Day 8

• Dr. Sk. Tawfique M Haque, NSU • Dr. Katherine Li, NSU • Dr. Ishrat Zakia Sultana, NSU Cox’s Bazar Field Resource Visit and Presentation • Ambassador Shahidul Haque, NSU Persons on Rohingya Crises • Mr. Boniface S. Gomes, BASD • Dr. A.K.M. Taifur Rahman, Health Management BD Foundation, IOM, RRRC, and UNHCR

4/3 Day 9

• Ambassador Shahidul Haque, NSU • Ms. Mia Seppo, UNRC, Bangladesh • Dr. Alberto "Mo" Morales, Center for Excellence in Future of Resource Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

Humanitarianism Persons • Mr. Brian Laguardia, UNOCHA (Bangkok) • Representative from British High Commission • Brig. Gen. Habib, BIPSOT

4/10 Day 10

Assignments, Two- way Feedback and Resource • Dr. Katherine Li, NSU Evaluation & Person Closing Ceremony

Resource Persons

Ambassador Shahidul Haque

Shahidul Haque is a Professorial Fellow at the North South University, Bangladesh and also an advisor on migration and humanitarian policy of IOM, Dhaka. He was the Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh from January 2013 to December 2019. Mr. Haque also served as a director for migration policy and IOM global relations based in Geneva from 2009 to 2012. He had received the IOM Director General’s Award in 2005. He has chaired the Global Forum for Migration and Development from 2015 to 2016. He had also lead the Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement from 2015 to 2016, a global body dealing with displacement due to climate change ( the Nansen Initiative). Mr. Haque has also been extensively engaged in negotiations associated with the Rohingya. He has led Bangladesh side of the Bangladesh-Myanmar Joint Working Group on the Repatriation of Displaced Myanmar Nationals from Bangladesh. He has also chaired Bangladesh National Task Force on Undocumented Myanmar Nationals from 2013 to 2019. Currently he is an Independent Expert to the Committee on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families. He pursued his graduate studies in International Relations and Diplomacy from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, USA (1988). He completed his Master’s Degree in Social Welfare from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Recently, he has co- authored a book titled “Migration Myth in Policy and Practice” (Springer, 2020). He has also written articles on trade, migration, climate change and human trafficking issues published in various journals. He was awarded Honorable Mention for Robert B. Steward Prize for high academic achievement at Fletcher. He was also awarded Dhaka University Chancellor’s Award, The Grant’s Commission Award and Chancellor’s Gold Medal from Dhaka University for his outstanding academic accomplishments.

Dr. Katherine Li

Dr. Katherine Li, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) and the Director of the Office of External Affairs (OEA) at North South University (NSU), is the Coordinator of the course. She is also the Advisor of the Center for Peace Studies (CPS) at NSU. She did her Master’s in International Educational Development, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Dr. Li pursued her Ph.D. in Educational Foundations, College of Education at the University of

Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, where she also has earned a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. Dr. Li is a mediator, facilitator, and co-author of the article titled “Towards contextual experimentation: Creating a Faculty Learning Community to Cultivate Writing-to-Learn Practices”. She is a reviewer of several books. Dr. Li most recently earned an Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. Her major areas of interest include - Peace Education and Global Citizenship Education.

H. E. Ambassador ITO Naoki

H.E. Ambassador Naoki Ito, who assumed the position as Consul General of Japan in Chicago late February, has been a career diplomat since 1984. Born in November 1960 in Tokyo, Ito joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs upon graduation from the prestigious Tokyo University's Department of Law. He also studied at the University of Cambridge in International Law & International Relations. He is currently the Ambassador of Japan to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

Ms. Mia Seppo

Mia Seppo joined the United Nations Country Team in Bangladesh as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in October 2017. With broad expertise and experience including in post-conflict and peace keeping contexts, with managing support for complex elections and in humanitarian crises and responses, Mia has served the majority of her career in senior managerial roles within the UN - working in Tajikistan, Sierra Leone and Malawi as well as in UN HQ in New York with the UNDP Regional Bureaus for Africa and for Europe & CIS. Mia launched her UN career in 1996 with a focus on governance and human rights issues. Prior to joining the UN, Mia worked for civil society and think tanks, including the Finnish Committee for European Security. Mia is a Finnish national and holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Ambassador Espen Rikter‐Svendsen, Espen Rikter‐Svendsen is a Norwegian career diplomat who entered the Foreign Service in 1990. He has been Norway’s Ambassador to Bangladesh since September 2020. Espen has spent more than half his his career on postings, mainly in Europe (Brussels, Paris and Rome) and Asia (New Delhi, Hanoi and Guangzhou). Before coming to Dhaka his last foreign posting was that of Consul General in Guangzhou, China, where he served from 2012 to 2017. Moreover, he has done shorter stints at Norway’s Embassies in Tehran and Seoul, as well as serving for two years as Special Envoy to Haiti, following the 2010 earthquake.

During his periods in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has worked extensively on Asian issues (China, South Asia), besides doing information and communication work. An interesting year was spent in the Protocol department preparing a State Visit to China. From 2018 to 2020 he was Norway’s Senior Official to ASEM, the Asia Europe Meeting. Espen holds a professional Law Degree (Cand. Jur.) from the University of Oslo, as well as an LLM from the University of London, Queen MaryCollege. Before joining the Foreign Service, he worked for five years as a legal consultant in a Norwegian tech company. In addition to his mother tongue Espen can make himself understood in English, French, Italian and German, besides possessing basic skills in Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese. He has a genuine wish to learn some Bengali whilst in Bangladesh. He has a son (21) and a daughter (19), both of whom are studying abroad (Canada and the UK). He is a keen amateur photographer (Nikon) and enjoys singing and playing the piano when no‐one is around.

Mr. Richard Ragan Richard Ragan is a senior staff member for the United Nations. He’s also served in the US Government as a Director on the National Security Council (NSC) in the Clinton White House, as a Deputy Assistant Administrator in US Agency for International Development (USAID), Advisor to the US Secretary of Defense, and as a Foreign Policy Advisor in the US House of Representatives for Congressman Les Aspin. As Acting Assistant Secretary General (ASG), he opened the Liberia Office and managed operations as part of the UN Secretary General’s Ebola Emergency Response Mission (UNMEER), he also served as

UNWFP Emergency Coordinator for the 2015 Nepal Response. In addition to his public service career, he’s spent time in the private sector as a Senior Director with Vulcan, Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen’s company. For 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate UN World Food Program (WFP), he’s served as Representative to Bangladesh, Tanzania, Nepal, North Korea, Zambia, and Libya while also working on complex emergencies in East Timor, Kosovo and China.

Dr. Jashim M Uddin

Dr. M Jashim Uddin is an Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at North South University (NSU). He was the Founding Coordinator of the Center for Peace Studies (CPS) at NSU. Dr. Uddin received his Ph.D. in International Public Policy from Osaka University, Osaka in 2005. He received the best award (Daihyo) for his Ph.D. Dissertation at Osaka University in 2005. He has published several book chapters and scholarly articles on peace and conflict resolution, inter-state relations, and refugee issues in peer-reviewed journals including, Sage Journal.

He served as a Senior Research Fellow for nine years at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh Government. His research interests include refugee studies, governance issues, conflict management, peacekeeping, human security, inter-state relations, Japan-SAARC, and China-South Asia relations. He was actively involved in a project on Human Security in Bangladesh at BIISS funded by DFID. Currently, Dr. Uddin is conducting different research projects including, a joint research project on Rohingya Voice funded by the Canadian High Commission in Dhaka.

Ms. Farah Kabir

Farah Kabir has been working with ActionAid Bangladesh as the Country Director since June 2007. Over close to three decades of vast experience in the field of development and research has made her a renowned human rights figure at home and abroad with an uncompromising voice against human rights violations. She has led new initiatives such as women- led emergency and humanitarian response; the first- ever Water Museum in South Asia located in Kuakata, and Happy Home, a safe home for 150 girls.

She focuses on climate justice for women on the frontline of climate change. She has represented the climate and resilience work of civil society organizations in Bangladesh at high-level forums both internationally and nationally. She has been the Chair of the Global Board of the Global Network of Disaster Risk Reduction (GNDR) since 2015. She was elected as a Board Member of Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) in 2019. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Bangladesh’s NDA to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). She was actively engaged in the development of the Sendai Framework on DRR, SDGs, and the Paris Agreement. She also led ActionAid to win the UN Sasakawa Award for disaster risk reduction and the Momentum for Change 2013 Lighthouse Activity on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Resilience in Bangladesh. She attended the UNFCCC- CoP sessions from 2017 to 2019. Since 2016, she has been attending the High-Level Political Forum of the UN regularly. Ms. Kabir commenced her career with the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). She has vast research experience with a host of publications especially on Women in Politics to her credit. For her significant contribution to the women’s rights movement of Bangladesh, Farah Kabir won the prestigious "Nawab Ali Chowdhury National Award 2012”. Ms. Kabir worked with British Council for nearly ten years both in Bangladesh and United Kingdom. She is the co-editor of two recent publications namely ‘Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality’ and ‘Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis’. She is an active member of many professional societies, such as child rights committee member of National Human Rights Commission, steering committee member of ACIAR-SDIP program of Australian Government, advisory panel member of LDC Independent Expert Group on Post 2015 supported by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), member of the Funding Committee of Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF), Board member of UCEP. She is fond of reading, listening to music, and indoor gardening. To her, the most energizing things are wearing Saree and having good leaf tea. She is constantly learning from her two sons who are her best friends.

Dr. Sarkar Ali Akkas Dr. Sarkar Ali Akkas is the Dean and Professor at Department of Law, Jagannath University, Dhaka. He received his PhD from the University of Wollongong, Australia and is currently supervising two MPhil student and two PhD students of the Department of Law, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr. Sarkar received Agrani Bank Gold Medal in recognition of the First Class First position in LLM from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He publications include - Principles of Constitutional Law, Bijoy Law Book House, Law of Evidence, Bijoy Law Book House, Independence and Accountability of Judiciary: A Critical Review, 2nd Ed, Bijoy Law Book House, 2020, Law of Criminal Procedure, Initiative for Research and Access to Justice, 5th Ed, 2019

Mr. Boniface Subrata Gomes

Boniface Subrata Gomes was born in Bangladesh in 1952. He founded an organization called ‘Bangladesh Association for Sustainable Development’ (BASD) in 1991 for the eradication of poverty, skill development, and sustainability of the poor of Bangladesh. He studied Theology, Philosophy, and Information Science at Dhaka University. He is the founder of different Student Organizations, Development Organizations, Social Clubs, and Networks. He is engaged with different National and International Networks - Forums and Development Organizations for Climate Resilience, Environment Development, Permaculture, and Ecovillage Development.

He founded a National Network in Bangladesh called ‘Climate Change, Mitigation, and Adaptation Networks’ (C-MAN) where a group of NGOs and Educational Institutions are members working for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and disaster adaptation.

He is trained in Permaculture Design, Ecovillage Design, Organic Cultivation, Cooperatives, and Microcredit Management. He is inspiring and guiding 110 Permaculture and Ecovillages in different parts of the country through program staff, and network members. He has been regularly organizing PDC and EDE courses in the country since 2008 and more than 600 community leaders, farmers, teachers, researchers, NGO-GO personnel have been trained and are working in the country and other countries including Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar. Five respected lecturers and students of different universities of Bangladesh and Iran were assisted preparing/developing study documents / thesis necessary for MPhil or Ph.D.

Mr. Arifur Rahman Prodhan

Arifur Rahman Prodhan, an economist by training, is currently working as the Head of Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Team at UNHCR Rwanda, the UN Refugee Agency. His specialization includes Poverty and Livelihoods, Resilience and Sustainable Development, Economic Inclusion of Refugees, Humanitarian- Development Nexus, Emergency Humanitarian Needs Assessment and Response, Social Protection, Budget Analysis, and Development Research. He did his MA in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK with a British Chevening Scholarship.

He obtained an MPhil degree in Economics from the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University, Dhaka and graduated from the Bangladesh Agricultural University in Agricultural Economics. Prior to UNHCR Rwanda he worked in UNHCR Zambia, DFID Zimbabwe and DFID Bangladesh, CIDA Bangladesh, CARE-Manusher Jonno and BIDS in various capacities. Mr. Rahman has research and publications on MDGs, Poverty and Livelihoods, Gender and Environmental Sensitive Budgeting, Education, and Refugee Economies. Recently, he contributed to an analytical piece on Peace -Humanitarian- Development Nexus in Rwanda as part of UN Rwanda Common Country Assessment (CCA). In March 2020, he was also a panelist at a high-level discussion forum organized by ICRC to talk about humanitarian-development nexus in Rwanda with the diplomatic community and shared the stage with the DG, ICRC. Mr. Rahman travelled extensively across the world and attended numerous international conferences, workshops and presented papers. He also made several short-term work missions to a number of African countries including South Sudan, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

Professor William Paul Simmons

William Paul Simmons is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director of the Human Rights Practice program at the University of Arizona. His research is highly interdisciplinary; using theoretical, legal, and empirical approaches to advance human rights for marginalized populations. His books include Joyful Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other (Cambridge UP, 2011), and Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience (Penn 2014). He has conducted ethnographic research on sexual violence against migrant women and children and published articles and a book chapter on the feminicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His articles have appeared in such journals as; Perspectives on Politics, DuBois Review, Journal of Human Rights, International Journal of Feminist Politics, International Migration Review, Violence Against Women, Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, The Journal of International Human Rights, Social Science Quarterly, and Philosophy and Social Criticism. He has more than 25 years of experience as a human rights educator and researcher, including serving as a consultant using qualitative and quantitative methods in a wide range of contexts: in The Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Bangladesh, China, Mexico and the United States.

Dr. Nichole Georgeou

Dr. Nichole Georgeou is Associate Dean International (School of Social Sciences), and Director, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) at Western Sydney University where she is Associate Professor, Humanitarian and Development Studies. Nichole holds a PhD in Development Sociology, a Master of Social Change and Development (Research) and a Bachelor of Creative Arts from University of Wollongong (UOW), and a Diploma of Education from University of Newcastle.

Her areas of research and academic writing broadly fall into three streams (1) civil society and volunteering for development; (2) humanitarian interventions and development aid, and (3) human security and food systems. Her research publications include over 35 book chapters and journal articles in high impact journals including: Journal of Sociology, Australian Journal of History and Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, Water International, PLOS One, International Journal of Sustainable Energy and Voluntas.

Nichole worked in the private, government, community and aid sectors in Australia, Japan and Vietnam before becoming an academic. She continues to play an active role in issues of aid and development through advocacy work and applied evidence-based research that confronts the rules and practices that perpetuate global poverty and inequality.

Ms. Kasumi Shirahata

Kasumi is enthusiastic about seeing individuals fulfill creative potential and talents. Born in Tokyo, educated in the US and the UK, she holds 10 years public and private philanthropic sector experience in international development, sustainability business, women empowerment and social innovation arena in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Kasumi has been working with a UN agency for refugee protection, start-up in Malaysia to launch a new livelihoods scheme for vulnerable woman communities and PwC for sustainability/inclusive businesses. She is currently engaging with private sector business development and UN/International Organization management including Education and Gender empowerment sphere in Bangladesh.

Dr. Alberto "Mo" Morales

Dr. Morales serves as the Applied Research and Information Sharing (ARIS) Branch Chief at the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), where he manages applied research, academic outreach, assessments, and information sharing programs focused on disaster management capacity building for 36 partner nations in the Indo- Asia-Pacific region. He joined the CFE-DM team from the United States Pacific Command’s Operations directorate where he was a program analyst. He co-chairs the Regional Consultative Group’s Information Sharing Working Group for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

He is managing editor and contributing author of CFE-DM’s Liaison Magazine, and facilitates the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) Working Group, a subsidiary of the Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop hosted by Brown University, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and UNOCHA. Morales is also a member of the Pacific Resilience Partnership Academic Taskforce and a member of the United Nations’ University Student Surge Group.

Morales served for 24 years in the United States Armed Forces. During his military service, he served in the infantry, air defense artillery, logistics, recruiting and retention, operations, and education and training as well as operational deployments in Central America, Northeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Morales holds a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico; a Master of Arts in Organizational Management and a Master of Education in Human Resource Management from Wayland Baptist University; and a Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Educational Leadership from the University of Southern California. He is a Fellow of the Pacific Leadership Academy and Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies as well as adjunct faculty at the Japan-America Institute of Management Science and Wayland Baptist University’s School of Education and Business. He is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.

Ms. Maria Teresa (Tess) Dico-Young

She is originally from Cebu, Philippines but work globally. She has over 20 years of experience at HQ and country level with INGOs and UN agency in different countries across 4 continents. Her work includes gender transformative programming, project and programme management, and leading the assessment, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and fundraising of humanitarian, recovery and long-term development programmes in conflict and post-conflict settings. Currently, she is the Head of Gender Hub with UN Women for the Rohingya Crisis Response in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.

Prior to UN Women, she worked with different INGOs and for nine years she was the Global Humanitarian Gender Adviser with Oxfam based in Oxford. One of the projects she managed was the revision of the 2017 IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action in partnership with UN Women and ECHO. This global experience is rooted from her 8 years’ experience in local NGOs in the Philippines working on Sustainable Livelihoods and humanitarian, recovery and long-term development. Feminism has been embedded in her journey, backed by her academic post graduate study on women’s rights and training on gender equality in programme management.

Brigadier General Md Ahsan Habib, sup, psc

Brigadier General Md Ahsan Habib, SUP, psc has started his military career in 1993. He has completed all his mandatory military training both from home and abroad and did basic training on United Nations Peace Operations as well. His expedition in the field of peacekeeping started with the deployment as Operations Officer in Bangladesh Infantry Battalion in Sudan (Juba) under UNMIS in 2005. Later, while serving in his Joint Forces Headquarters (Armed Forces Division) from 2009 to 2011, he educated himself on strategic and operational level dimensions and complexities of Peace Operations. Mr. Ahsan Habib also worked as Senior Staff Officer (Operations) in Multi-National Sector Headquarters in UNOCI, Ivory Coast in 2012.

Brigadier General Ahsan Habib, worked as distinguished faculty on the United Nations Peace Support Operations module in Bangladesh Defense Services Command and Staff College in 2015-2016. As Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Ahsan Habib was seconded as P-4 in the Department of Peace Operations (DPO), United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ), New York for a duration of three years (2017-2019). On return from UNHQ, he started his journey as Senior Instructor in

Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training (BIPSOT), one of the prime peacekeeping centers in the world in the rank of Colonel. As Senior Instructor in BIPSOT, he used to look after the Pre-Deployment Training (PDT), Field Training Exercise (FTX), and Refresher Training of the Contingents. Presently, he is serving as Chief Instructor in the same institute in the rank of Brigadier General and looking after all peacekeeping courses in BIPSOT.

Lt. Col. Rooslan ur Rahman, psc

Lieutenant Colonel Rooslan Ur Rahman, psc, Infantry, joined Bangladesh army in the year of 1998. He is basically an Infantrian who later converted to Special Forces and rendered support in the active operations. He has done number of courses from both home and abroad. He is a specialist in counter terrorism operations, airborne operations, and UN peace operations. He has three Masters to his credit, among which Peace, Conflict and Human Rights Studies is one. He is a certified strategic level counter terrorism operative who graduated from George C. Marshal European Center for Security studies (GCMC). Lt. Col. Rooslan is a certified Investigator and instructor who graduated under US Defense Institute of International Legal Studies and UN OIOS. He is also a certified Instructor by US INDOPACOM and Global Peace Operation Initiative. His areas of expertise are protection of civilian, child protection, sexual and gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, women peace and security, female engagement team training, UN contingent training, UN military expert in Mission, IHL, UN PO training, national investigation officers training and staff training. As an international subject matter expert this officer has rendered support to Mongolia, India, Germany and the USA. He was a seminar speaker on CVE in Germany and on ‘cross border terrorism’ in the USA. His research interests are on national security and terrorism. He is an alumni scholar, who is at present doing a research on ‘home grown terrorism’ under GCMC. This officer is at present one of the selected few specialists who is writing the UN Doctrine on deploying Military Contingents in conflict zones. Lt. Col. Rooslan has successfully rendered his service for two of the riskiest UN missions during 2006-2007 in DRC and 2016-2017 in Darfur. With his 23 years of military carrier, he is a UN mission expert on MONUC and UNAMID. He has been a faculty of Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation and Training for last three years.

Lt. Col. Mamunur Rashid, psc

Lieutenant Colonel Mamunur Rashid, psc has started his military career in 1996. He has completed all his military training both from home and abroad. He did peacekeeping basic training, undergone few United Nations related thematic courses (Protection of Civilian, Women Peace and Security, Responsibility to Protect and many more) and also completed a staff and military observer course. He was first deployed in United Nations peacekeeping environment as a contingent member in UNOCI, Ivory Coast in 2006-2007. He served as a military observer in Syria in 2012. He also performed again as a military observer in UNOCI, Ivory Coast in 2012-2013.

Lieutenant Colonel Mamun started his journey in the arena of peace operations from 2018, when he joined as an Instructor in Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training (BIPSOT). For the last two and half years he has been devoting himself to teaching potential peacekeepers on various peacekeeping related subjects. He is actively involved in Pre- Deployment Training (PDT), Field Training Exercise (FTX), and Refresher Training of the Contingents prior to deploying in peacekeeping mission. He has conducted a joint seminar in 2018 on “Challenges of Protection of Civilian in Peace Operation, Insight from Africa: What Lies Ahead” between BIPSOT, Bangladesh and Center for United Nations Peacekeeping (CUNPK), India. As a Subject Matter Expert, Mr. Mamunur Rashid went to the Argentinean Joint Peacekeeping Training Centre (CAECOPAZ) to support Military Expert on Mission Course (MEOM) in 2018. Again in 2019, he went to South Korean Peace Keeping Center (ROK) as a Subject Matter Expert to support United Nations Staff Officers Course (UNSOC) and Military Expert on Mission Course (MEOM). Presently, Lieutenant Colonel Mamun is serving as an Instructor Class A in BIPSOT.

Lt. Commander Shahriar Hamid Rasul, psc

Lieutenant Commander Shahriar Hamid Rasul, (G), psc has hoisted his sail in Bangladesh Navy in 1990 as cadet and was commissioned in the Executive branch on 1992. His military career is a blend of academic and professional training including training both at home and abroad. He is a Staff Course graduate from Defence Services Command and Staff College, Dhaka and obtained his Masters in Defence Studies in 2006 under National University. He was placed as a United Nations (UN) Military Expert on Missions in Ivory Coast in 2006–2007, where he acted as UN Military Observer to perform challenging field level activities of peacekeeping. He has

16 successfully completed peacekeeping basic training on UN Military Observers’ Course and UN Military Staff Officers’ Course. Besides, he has done UN related thematic courses on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Women, Peace and Security and International Humanitarian Law. In 2016, he has received a specialized training from Malaysia Peacekeeping Training Centre (MPC), Port Dickson, Malaysia on, “Supporting Humanitarian Action in Responding to Emergencies and Disasters (SHARED) course”, under UN Humanitarian Civil – Military Coordination (UN CM Coord) training programme, sponsored by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He is also pursuing his second Masters on Peace and Conflict and Human Rights Studies at Bangladesh University of Professionals and is at the final stage.

Lieutenant Commander Shahriar began his drive for peacekeepers’ training on 04 January 2016, when he joined as an Instructor for Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training (BIPSOT). He has extended his dedication on peacekeepers’ training to infuse UN peacekeeping knowledge and issues among the prospective peacekeepers and academicians. In doing so, he has been actively involved in Pre-Deployment Training (PDT), all thematic and specialized level of Peacekeeping training for peacekeepers. In 2018, he was assigned to visit the South Korean Peacekeeping Operations training center under Korea National Defence University, Nonsan, Republic of Korea, as a Subject Matter Expert for UN Staff Officers Course and Military Expert on Missions Course (UNSO and MEOM Course). As a Subject Matter Expert on Field Training Exercise, Lt. Cdr. Shahriar Hamid Rasul was assigned by the Global Peace Operations Initiatives (GPOI), USA for consultation and conduct of Multinational Peacekeeping Exercise, “Exercise Khaan Quest – 2019” at Mongolia, in 2019. He visited the Five Hills Peace Support Operations Training Centre; Mongolia in 2019, for conducting US-GPOI led Military Observers’ Course. In 2020, he successfully conducted a seminar on, “Reflection of the Father of the Nation Banagabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Vision for World Peace and Security – A Standing Guideline for Peace Building around the World” at BIPSOT, to mark the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation.

There had been participations of the academicians and senior students of Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, North South University, BRAC University and Bangladesh University of Professionals, Military and Police Officers of Bangladesh in the seminar. He developed the concept note of that seminar on the thematic aspects of, ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Foreign Policy and vision on world peace’, ‘UN Peace Operations, present and future – Where Bangladesh stands now?’ and ‘Future Trajectories for Bangladesh in implementing the vision of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’. For more than 5 years of interpreting peacekeeping instructional duties at BIPSOT, Lieutenant Commander Shahriar has attained the level of International Subject Matter Expert on Peacekeeping Affairs of BIPSOT. Over the period of time, this veteran and expert Peacekeepers’ trainer has shaped him up, as one of the Key focal points of Peacekeeping references in this premier training institution of Bangladesh.

Brian Laguardia Mr. Brian Laguardia is the Civil-Military Coordination Humanitarian Affairs Officer (HAO) at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), based in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Laguardia works closely with regional and in-country partners, oversees the fulfilment of CM Coord response and preparedness activities and trainings across the 41 countries covered by ROAP. Mr. Laguardia has over 15 years of professional experience in humanitarian organizations, non-profits and government agencies; including the United States Army and the New York Board of Education. Prior to joining the regional office in Thailand, Mr. Laguardia worked as an HAO focused on CMCoord, access and security for OCHA Afghanistan; before which he worked as a country director and access/CMCOORD specialist for various NGOs; supported veterans transitioning to civilian life in the United States; and served as both an Infantry SSG and a New York City high school teacher.

Mr. Laguardia was born in 1974 in New York City and holds a Masters’ degree in International Relations from New York University; as well an Undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. He is an avid photographer who loves to travel and the outdoors.

Mr. Ilya Ivanov

Mr. Ilya Ivanov is the current ICRC Regional Legal Adviser for South Asia. He has joined the ICRC in 2017 at the Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy Division where he supported the diplomatic activities of Europe and Central Asia region, as well as the Division’s work on migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy and diplomacy in general. In 2019 he worked as the Diplomatic Adviser for Europe and Central Asia, and in 2018 he managed the ICRC Global Research and Debate Cycle on Migration and Displacement as the Law and Policy Outreach Adviser. Before joining the ICRC, Mr. Ivanov worked as the Special Assistant to the Director at the WFP Geneva Office, as well as Human Rights House Foundation within their international advocacy team, Russian International Affairs Council, and

MGIMO-University. Mr. Ivanov holds an LL.M. in international humanitarian law and human rights (Geneva Academy) and an M.A. in international relations (MGIMO-University). He speaks English, Russian, French, and Japanese.

Dr. A.K.M. Taifur Rahman Dr. A.K.M. Taifur Rahman is a Public health expert and currently holds the position of Executive Director of Health Management BD Foundation. After his MBBS he did a Masters in Clinical Social Work at Dhaka University and another Masters of Public Health from North South University. Prior to starting his journey at HMBD Foundation, he was a Project Director of Tuberculosis Control Program under HEED Bangladesh. His current interest is focused on Refugee health and Palliative care for the terminally ill patients. Dr. Rahman has published extensively in high-impact journals and another two papers are close to publication. His research interests are maternal, communicable and non-communicable diseases and palliative health in developing countries including Bangladesh. Particularly his focus is on scaling up evidence-based low-cost interventions at the community level within existing health systems and measuring their impact. Recently, he completed a fellowship on Palliative Care under WHO collaboration center at IPM (Institute of Palliative Medicine), Kerala, India. He also completed a fellowship in Migrant and Refugee Health under the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As Executive Director of Health Management BD Foundation he is currently concentrating on Rohingya refugees (Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals in Bangladesh) for implementing various projects; especially basic health, age friendly space and palliative care, family planning, mental health and psychosocial support and gender-based violence. He is also working on the super cyclone Amphan affected people in the coastal area of Bangladesh. Working on shelter, wash and food security for the cyclone affected people.

Mr. Masrur Bin Ansari Mr. Masrur Bin Ansari is currently working as a Legal Adviser of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Bangladesh Delegation. Previously, he worked for ICRC’s Legal Division at its Headquarters in Geneva. He had the experience of working in the research and academic field before as a Lecturer at BRAC University’s School of Law. Mr. Ansari completed his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Dhaka and stood first in his class in both the programmes. He specialized in international humanitarian law and human rights by obtaining his second LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He

19 was awarded with several honours including the Prime Minister Gold Medal for academic excellence at the University of Dhaka, and was the recipient of Hans Wilsdorf Scholarship to pursue his Master’s at the Geneva Academy.

Professor Karl Kim Karl Kim is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Director of the graduate program in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. He studies transportation, cities, and resilience. He was educated at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a Fulbright scholar to Korea and the Russian Far East. Previously, he served as the Chief Academic Officer (Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs) overseeing tenure and promotion, strategic planning, and program review for the Manoa campus. He is currently Executive Director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (ndptc.hawaii.edu), authorized by the U.S. Congress to develop and deliver FEMA certified training courses for underserved, at-risk communities on natural hazards, mitigation, and urban planning. The Center has trained more than 50,000 first responders, emergency managers, and leaders in over 350 communities across the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Elsevier) and Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part D (Environment) and is editing a 10-volume series on disaster risk reduction and resilience (Routledge). He has also developed and led research and training programs in Vietnam, Philippines, and Indonesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-hTk6YAy-8&feature=youtu.be Professor Md. Sirajul Islam Prof. Dr. Md. Sirajul Islam is serving as Professor, CEE and Director of the Center for Infrastructure Research and Services (CIRS), North South University. Before this, he also held several important positions as Dean, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (SEPS); Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Chair, Department of Environmental Science & Management (ESM). He also served as Faculty Adviser of Earth Club, NSU – a university-wise club for creating environmental awareness among students. Dr. Islam is having extensive experiences in the field of water resources and environment engineering with further concentration in climate change and disaster management.

Dr. Islam started his career as a researcher at the Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET in 1995. He then joined at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet in 1997 as a Lecturer. He did Masters from the National University of Singapore and PhD from The University of Tokyo, Japan. After his PhD, he conducted JST Postdoctoral Fellowship on climate change and global water resources at Oki Laboratory, IIS, The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2003-2005. Apart from his academic assignments, he also served for a number of international organizations and UN bodies as UNFCCC, IPCC, UNCRD, DFID, UNDP, ADB, USAID, GIZ and World Bank for consultancy, research or short-term assignment.

In 2010, he served as Research Fellow at the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Head Quarters in Bonn, Germany on the topic Technology for Adaptation to Climate Change for six months. Dr. Islam is associated with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as an Expert Reviewer for a number of reports. He is extensively involved with the professional bodies in his field. Dr. Sirajul published widely in different international and national peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and wrote book chapters. He is a regular contributor to reputed newspapers in Bangladesh. He visited a large number of countries worldwide while attending conferences, meetings and workshops as USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, UAE, KSA, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and India.

Professor Todd Eisenstadt

Professor Eisenstadt has worked on six continents, publishing multiple award-winning books and dozens of articles. He studies development with research that focuses on democratization and environmental politics. He is presently concluding a World Bank study of attitudes towards climate change among the most vulnerable in Bangladesh, co-authored with Tawfique Haque of North-South University. In 2019, he published Who Speaks for Nature? Indigenous Environmental Movements, Public Opinion, and Ecuador's Petro-State.

Eisenstadt and his co-author used a National Science Foundation-funded survey to study rural, indigenous communities to understand how they experience climate vulnerability, especially in areas of heavy oil extraction in Ecuador’s Amazon region. Published by the Oxford University Press, the book stems in part from an earlier book, Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His research also looks at the relationship between constitution-making processes and democratization across scores of nations, and the implementation of judicial reforms in Mexico and Latin America. Along these

21 lines, he and co-authors Carl LeVan and Tofigh Maboudi in 2017 published Constituents Before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions (Cambridge University Press).

He also published Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2004 based on his dissertation), and dozens of journal articles and book chapters on this topic. His research has been funded by the Council on Foreign Relations, The World Bank, Fulbright Commission, the National Security Education Program (NSEP), the Ford and Mellon foundations, USAID, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). A former director of multiple United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grants in Mexico, Eisenstadt has trained hundreds of stakeholders in judicial reform implementation, electoral observation and other government processes there. Formerly an award-winning print journalist (Nashville Tennessean “night police beat” back in the day) and Capitol Hill staffer, Eisenstadt has consulted for The World Bank, USAID, the Organization of American States, and several development companies. Eisenstadt has also held a range of leadership positions at American University. He served as chair of the Department of Government and has served multiple terms as Graduate Program Director. He also has chaired the American University Faculty Senate and served as the Board of Trustees’ faculty representative. His doctoral students have received awards from the NSF, the Fulbright, Boren, and Inter-American Foundations, and he has held visiting appointments at El Colegio de México and CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico City, Harvard University, the University of California, San Diego, and the Latin American Social Science Faculty (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador.

Professor Md. Jakariya Prof. Jakariya specializes in Human Geography, Environmental Risk Assessment, Climate Change Adaptation, Water Resources Management and GIS. Prof. Jakariya is currently working as Professor of the Department of Environmental Science and Management of North South University (www.northsouth.edu). He has a wide range of experience in designing and implementing action research in the field of environment and development. He worked as a lead researcher for many national and international organizations mostly on natural resources management and sustainable development issues for more than two decades. Prof. Jakariya received MPhil degree in Environment and Development from University of Cambridge, UK, in 2000, and Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden in 2007. Prof. Jakariya published a good number of papers in international peer-reviewed journals and books.

Participants

Abu Sayeed Mohammed Suza uddin Andrew Miller

Country Manager, Artolution Reports Officer World Food Programme Dhaka Location: Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh Location: USA

Azmain Adil Khan Christine (Nina) Delling

Student, North South Lead, International University Mobility and Partnerships MacEwan International Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Location: Edmonton, Canada

Colonel Md. Tareque Be- Daiyan Ibn Hasan Nazeer, MPH, (retd.) Research Officer, Location: Rajshahi Bangladesh Enterprise Cantonment, Bangladesh Institute

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Faizah Ibnat Jarin Tasnim Khan Student, North South University NGO Worker

Location: Dhaka, Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh

Khadar Abdi Rahman Lelung Khumi Abdillahi Admin Zone Coordinator Student, Daffodil Tahzingdong, Bandarban Hill International University District, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Location: Bandarban Hill District, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Lt. Col. Shahriar Hamid Lt. Col. Mamunur Rasul, (g), psc, bn Rashid, psc Instructor & International Instructor Class A in BIPSOT Subject Matter Expert on UN Peacekeeping Affairs – Location: Dhaka, Banglades BIPSOT Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

M H Kawsar Lt. Col. Rooslan ur Rahman, psc, Infantry, Communication Officer Bangladesh Army Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Instructor and International Nations (FAO)FAO Cox’s Subject Matter Expert on Bazar Field Office Peace Operations and Counter Terrorism Location: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mahir Mahtab Haque Mahmuda Yesmin Rima

BUP Student Masters Student, Internship, Energypac North South University Power Generation Ltd. Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Abu Nayeem Md Mahfuzur Rahman

Instructor (General) Special Correspondent Primary Teacher's Training Jamuna Television Institute, Cox's Bazar Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Location: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Md. Osman Nayeem Md Shafiul Alam

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Counsellor Bangladesh High Commission New Delhi

Location: Vasant Vihar, New Delhi

Mohammed Abul Kalam Mohammad Nuruzzaman

Senior Assistant Secretary, Additional Deputy Ministry of Public Commissiner Administration, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka Location: Cumilla, Bangladesh

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Zulfikar Ali Mai Rikter-Svendsen Assistant Professor (Philosophy) Student at Cardiff Shailkupa Government University College Jheneidah, Bangladesh Location: Cardiff, UK

Location: Magura, Bangladesh

Parisa Shakur Nashita Behroz Jalil Sr. Lecturer of Economics Economics Graduate and North South University Research Assistant, SIPG, North South University Location: Dhaka, Member of Kotha Bangladesh

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Quazi Rokaiya Haque Raisul Islam

Masters student, North South Non communicable Diseases University Officer, World Health Organization Emergency Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Sub-Office, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Location: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Rudmila Khan Saiful Islam

Program Officer, Center for Student, Cox's Bazar Peace Studies (CPS), North International University South University Location: Cox's Bazar, Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh

Shafiul Akber Shagufta Sultana

UITS Graduate Project Director, AID Foundation Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shahnaz Parveen Shaikh Shahrukh Senior Lecturer Farhan Department of Public Health North South University, and NSU Alumni Member of ICDP Staff Correspondent (International Child The Daily Observer Development Program, Norway) Location: Dhaka, Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh

Shazzad Hossain Sheikh Shahariar Zaman Professor ECE Department of NSU Journalist, Dhaka Tribune Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sr. Abby Avelino, MM Sumiyea Akter Tanjima

Location: Musashino-Shi Location: Dhaka, Tokyo, Japan Bangladesh

Tasnova Sadnee Tausif Akib Khan

Technical officer for Marketing Graduate Reproductive, Maternal, Founder & CEO of The Child and Adolescent Koala Hub Health, World Health Marketing & Brand Organization, Emergency Executive at AKSID Sub-Office, Cox’s Bazar Corporation

Location: Cox’s Bazar, Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh

Taznuva Sultana Tonni Yeasrib Hassan

Public Health Associate Assistant Officer UNHCR, The UN Refugee Public Relation Office Agency, Sub-Office, Cox's North South University Bazar Location: Bangladesh Location: Bangladesh