Papers by Obayedul Hoque Patwary
Social Alternatives, 2023
The Chittagong Hill Tracts, located in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, are regarded as the h... more The Chittagong Hill Tracts, located in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, are regarded as the home of the indigenous people, resided in by 11 different indigenous ethnic groups, who are ethnically and culturally different from the mainstream Bengali people. However, the area has been subject to violent ethnic conflict since the late 1970s between the security forces of Bangladesh Government and the indigenous ethnic groups. A peace treaty titled the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord was signed in 1997 between the government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) to end the armed conflict. However, the search for peace remains elusive as the region is still engulfed by violence in different ways including direct, structural and cultural violence. This has happened because the Accord has failed to pay due attention to transforming the conflict through reconciliation, community integration, and ensuring environmental sustainability, which could pave the ground to create peace from the bottom up. It is against this backdrop that the study focuses on the dynamics of conflict in the post-accord scenario in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
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Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the face of climate change. The country has... more Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the face of climate change. The country has a history of extreme climatic events causing enormous sufferings to the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. It has made life unsupportable in different disaster prone areas and resulted into the displacement of an increasing number of people from rural and coastal areas of the country. In this regard, the paper aims to understand the process through which people get displaced in the face of climate change in Bangladesh. To understand this scenario, the paper particularly discusses four types of natural calamities i.e. floods, riverbank erosion, tropical cyclones and sea level rise and their resultant consequences on human movement. It is obvious that such calamities have increased in terms of frequency and intensity in recent times and led to a situation of homelessness, landlessness and destruction of livelihood opportunities and compel the victims to move into new places for the sake of their sustenance.
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