In This Issue
Message from the Executive Director
Centre for Peace and Justice
BRAC University, Building 07, Level 09, 43 Mohakhali C/A Dhaka 1212,
Bangladesh
Email: [email protected]
Updates on the latest Research, Projects, Events & Development
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Message from the Executive Director
Centre for Peace and Justice’s core thrust is to build a robust body of evidence to identify the underlying causes of societal injustice and fragility. We are committed to building just, peaceful and inclusive societies by
promoting institutional partnership, policy reform and social empowerment.
Since the beginning of 2020, due to Covid-19, working modalities have changed for all organisations in
Bangladesh and around the globe. During such uncertain times, CPJ has managed to continue all of their ongoing activities. In fact, there has been an increase in our
activities particularly related to Covid-19. I congratulate the CPJ team members for their dedication and
commitment.
Kind Regards,
Manzoor Hasan OBE Executive Director
Centre for Peace and Justice
Research Highlights
Recent Events
CPJ Announcements
Publications
Acknowledgement Project Highlights
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Research Highlights
Covid-19 Livelihood Crisis, Social Cohesion Challenges and Mitigation Options
CPJ undertook a study to understand the impacts of Covid-19 on vulnerable groups. The study focused on two groups: low-income, urban formal and informal workers, and migrants who returned home to Bangladesh from abroad amid the pandemic.
The study had three objectives: (a) Analyse the Covid-19-driven core livelihood challenges of people who belong to low-income groups and their livelihood challenges in relation to social cohesion; (b) Explore their options and opportunities for coping with threats to social cohesion; and (c) Identify strategies for Government of Bangladesh (hereunder referred to as ‘the Government’), NGOs, and communities to consolidate social cohesion.
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Bangladesh: Religious Dimensions of Development and Social Cohesion
The faith dimensions of development in Bangladesh are deep-rooted, complex, and often under-appreciated. This project aims to explore the faith dimensions in Bangladesh’s development process, leading to broad policy explorations that could help resolve lingering tensions and conflicting approaches, through specific research, operational encounters, and tailored training. The project has three thematic foci spanning the project duration, exploring the intersections of faith with various dimensions of development, from a focus on education in the first year, gender in the second year, to a combined focus on youth and communication, and climate change in the final project year. The project’s thematic foci are well reflected across all four project components namely, research, engagement, policy outreach and publication.
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Voices from the Margins and Inclusive Policy Response to Covid-19 Pandemic
The project aims to create an information data-loop to inform and influence public policies and state responses on Covid-19 related relief, recovery and resilience measures.
Based on a representative household panel of marginalised groups in Bangladesh, the project tracks their understanding of and demands for healthcare policies and responses and put emphasis on discerning the heterogeneity of the marginalised communities and determine their interests by deploying empirical data attempting to inform policy making decision from a humane centric approach. This project builds on the ongoing research initiative of the Centre for Peace and Justice, Brac University on Covid-19 pandemic. This study will serve as the amplifier of the voice of the marginalised population for responsive and inclusive policy formulation.
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Project Highlights
AHA! Awareness with Human Action
Through a collaborative approach, the project will increase outreach for initiatives that promote awareness of Covid-19 and constructive narratives that reduce discrimination, hate speech, and stigmatization against specific communities, primarily targeting religious leaders, and women and youth leaders as community influencers. The conclusion of the project will result in enhanced capacities of religious and traditional leaders and women and youth leaders to increase awareness on Covid-19 prevention and response that emphasize collaboration by different faiths and communities as well as increased conflict prevention focused collaborative initiatives at national and regional levels to strengthen inclusive communities beyond Covid-19.
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Strengthening Social Cohesion in Cox’s Bazar by Engaging Rohingya Refugees and Host Community
The overarching objective of this project is to identify key drivers of the social cohesion in both communities through research and building resilience on youths. A baseline survey will be carried out to measure the situation of the social cohesion.
After identifying the drivers of social cohesion, CPJ will develop a comprehensive training module to train up 48 volunteers of this project. These volunteers will reach out to 5100 youths and 1500 parents to build resilience on social cohesion. At the end of the project, the effectiveness of the activities will be measured by an end line survey. As knowledge partner, CPJ will train up 200 staff of Unicef's C4D partners. Among the partner organisation's staff, 20 would be picked for the training of master trainer.
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Empowering Young Women for Promoting Peaceful, Cohesive and Prosperous Bangladesh
Since July 2018, the Centre for Peace and Justice has been implementing this flagship programme of UN Women at 4 universities in Dhaka, Mymensingh, and Rangpur. CPJ has facilitated the establishment of 4 Peace Cafés as an innovative and pioneering initiative to promote peace and social cohesion through nurturing and mentoring female-student-led civic engagement and social entrepreneurship activities. CPJ has successfully implemented 3 phases of this regional programme and is currently working on the fourth phase:
Phase 1 and 2: Empowering Young Women for Promoting Peaceful, Cohesive and Prosperous Bangladesh.
Phase 3: Securing Peace Off and Online: Engaging women in promotion of peace, social cohesion and Covid-19 resilience.
Phase 4: Peace-Building in a Pandemic: Empowering Women to Promote Peace and Social Cohesion in the Context of Covid-19.
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Recent Events
Announcements
Online Discussion Series on Justice and Accountability
Report Launch: Covid-19 Livelihood Crisis, Social Cohesion Challenges and Mitigation Options: An Empirical Study
Exclusive Lecture on Marginalised and Impoverished in Assam, India
Clebration of International Youth Day Webinar on Coping with the Change
Tasnuva Ahmed
Tasnuva is a Project Officer at CPJ.
Her primary work focuses on research and projects on the Refugee Studies Unit in Cox's Bazar.
Tasnuva has recently completed her second Masters in Educational Leadership and School Improvement from the BRAC Institute of
Educational Development.
Shahariar Sadat
Shahariar joined in April as CPJ's first Director. He is responsible for all Academic and Legal
Empowerment activities within CPJ.
Shahariar was with CPJ prior to joining BRAC, where he was the Programme Head of BRAC Human Rights and Legal Services (HRLS) Programme for the two years.
Dr M. Shahidul Islam
Shahidul is currently serving as a Research Fellow at CPJ.
Shahidul has recently received his Doctoral title having completed his PhD from the School of Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His dissertation title was ''Research & Development, Misallocation and Productivity: A Firm level Study of ASEAN".
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www.facebo/cpj.bracu Covid-19 vaccination and digital exclusion at
the margins
Rana Plaza to Hashem Food: A tunnel vision of occupational safety and health in Bangladesh
Understanding power and social forces:
Advance hydra theory Pandemic-hit groups need access to
alternative livelihood options How to bring a paradigm shift in Bangladesh’s
light engineering sector বাংলােদেশর মানিসক া ব ব াপনার শারীিরক
াে রপযােলাচনাএবং টিলেসবারস াবনা
Effective Campaign for Effective Vaccination
in Rohingya Camps After four years of Rohingya’s arrival in Bangladesh: A personal reflection The democratic struggle in Myanmar must
recognise the rights of the Rohingya Solidarity Through Narratives: The Rohingya voice must be heard
Acknowledgment
Centre for Peace and Justice would like to acknowledge the contributions of:
Vaccine justice: Some disquieting facts from
the field How structural violence is the sustaining
factor for capitals in Bangladeshi industries
