RESEARCH FOCUSES CONFLICT
CORE RESEARCH AREAS
First book was published on January 2021. The Rohingya Crisis: Analyses, Responses, and Peacebuilding Avenues. Publisher: Lexington: US
Hate, Violent Extremism, and Counter-Radicalization
Community-Focused Counter-Radicalization and Counter-Terrorism Projects: Experiences and Lessons Learned, a book by Kawser Ahmed, Patrick Belanger, and Susan Szmania. Lexington Books.
Youth Extremism and Radicalization in Bangladesh
Forthcoming book chapter titled: The Changing Landscape of Violent Extremism (VE) in Bangladesh: A View from the Mezzanine at The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems, edited by Rajendra Baikady, Sajid SM, Jaroslaw Przeperski, Varoshini Nadesan, M Rezaul Islam and Gao Jianguo.
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
A book chapter on Western Sahara and MINURSO in the ‘Peace Issues in the 21st Century Global Context’, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Education in Emergencies for the Displaced Adolescents in Refugee Camps
A forthcoming book chapter on Rohingya children education in camps
OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS
Refugee and Underemployed Immigrants
Peacebuilding social enterprise workshops
Microfinance and microcredit for poverty alleviation
Peacebuilding social entrepreneurships
Child Protection, Youth, Adolescent, Women
Cyber-safe children, protection
Anti-radicalism research
Multicultural Literacy
Multifaith dialogue
Well-being Projects
Assisted death social conscientization
Recreational marijuana abuse prevention
Youth immobility, obesity and internet
Advocacy: fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD
