BANGLADESH: Radical Politics, Extremism and the Way Forward
Wednesday, 15 May | 3pm UK / 8pm Dhaka
ONLINE
A panel discussion drawing upon the research of Charles Wallace Bangladesh Trust Visiting Fellow Dr Shafi Mostofa on the tractories of existing political extremism (and emerging groups) in Bangladesh, and possible ways forward for the state to confront, control and overcome this issue.
SPEAKERS: Barrister Tania Amir is a rights activist, Advocate in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and partner in Amir & Amir Law Associates in Dhaka, being called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1990; Dr Jasmin Lorch (@IDOS_research) is a political scientist and currently Senior Researcher in a project on 'Transformation of Political (Dis)order' at the German Institute of Development & Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn, and has published on terrorism and female jihadism in Bangladesh; Dr Shafi Mostofa (@ShafiMostofa) is Associate Professor in World Religions & Culture at the University of Dhaka, was until recently Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow at the LSE South Asia Centre, and has published extensively in radical extremism and jihadism in Bangladesh; Ali Riaz is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Politics & Government, Illinois State University, and an expert on political Islam and violent extremism in South Asia, especially Bangladesh.
DISCUSSANT: Dr Geoffrey Macdonald (@geoffreymacdon) is Senior Advisor on Asia/Bangladesh at the International Republican Institute, and Visiting Expert on South Asia at the United States Institute of Peace, both in Washington DC.
CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar (@SAsiaLSE) is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.
This online event is free to attend but registration is required to receive the livestream link. Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register.
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