1st Edition
The Rohingya Crisis Humanitarian and Legal Approaches
This edited volume addresses the broader aspects of the political and social landscape, human rights violations, accountability and advocacy efforts, and humanitarian challenges faced by the Rohingya from Myanmar.
The work brings together different voices of legal, policy, and international affairs experts to construct a framework which addresses the complex and nuanced issues comprising the Rohingya crisis. Although there is recognition that international legal mechanisms are moving forward more quickly than anticipated, these processes do not constitute standalone sustainable solutions. Myanmar’s myriad political, social cohesion, development and security challenges are likely to persist even as justice and accountability processes move forward. Thus, this book project is premised on the consensus that the international community should complement international justice mechanisms by looking toward creative and multi-faceted approaches in addition to justice and accountability.
This timely contribution will be of interest to academics, researchers, development practitioners, and human rights organizations.
Introduction: The Complex Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
Manzoor Hasan, Syed Mansoob Murshed and Priya Pillai
Theme 1: The Rohingya Crisis and Myanmar’s Social and Political Landscape
1. Political-Legal Considerations of the Rohingya Refugee Situation: Seeking Accountability, Relief and Solutions
Brian Gorlick
2. The double burden of lives in camps: Stateless Rohingya communities in Bangladesh and their multiple displacements
Sadaf Noor E Islam and Nayanika Mookherjee
Theme 2: Justice and Accountability
3. A Tale of Two International Law Principles: Ensuring Justice and Accountability for the Rohingya
Quazi Omar Foysal
4. Who speaks for the Rohingya? Ideals and Realities of Intervention before the World Court
Brian McGarry
5. Racialised Denationalisation as Apartheid
Michelle Foster and Jade Roberts
6. Identifying ‘Other Argentinas’: Variables in Considering Universal Jurisdiction Forum States
Jennifer Keene-McCann and Aakash Chandran
7. A "Patchwork Quilt" of Fact-finding and International Accountability in Myanmar
Priya Pillai
Theme 3: Toward Sustainable Solutions: Multi-faceted Engagements for Concrete Action
8. Are you real, seriously? Ethical dilemmas of an online role play on the Rohingya crisis
Helen Hintjens, Md. Mizanur Rahman and Ron Linser
9. NGO roles in achieving Transitional Justice for crimes against the Rohingya
Tonny Raymond Kirabira and Emma Palmer
10. Re-envisioning the Responsibility to Protect for the Rohingya Context
Ahmed Shafquat Hassan
Biography
Manzoor Hasan is Executive Director at the Centre for Peace and Justice, Brac University, Bangladesh.
Syed Mansoob Murshed is Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Priya Pillai is Head of the Asia Justice Coalition Secretariat.
