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Report on the International Conference on the Rohingya Crisis in Comparative Perspective
30 July 2019
This International Conference was held at UCL on 4th and 5th July 2019
The UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), the UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS) at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh organised a two-day international conference which was attended by more than 100 participants including academics, policy makers, activists, NGO staff among others and more than 50 presenters. The topics discussed covered diverse areas including Rohingya history in Myanmar and their life in refugee camps in Bangladesh as well as related physical and environmental issues.
We are very grateful to the UCL’s QR Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) allocation for 2018/19 for funding this conference through the UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CCV) at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS).
See the full conference report for further details of the conference content and outcomes:
The conference was reported in the media by the Guardian and Anadolu Agency (AA).