RESEARCH FOCUSES



CORE RESEARCH AREAS
Two books were published on January 2021 and August 2022. 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.
Keeping Peace in a Turbulent World: Reflections from the Fiels was published by CSP on November 2023. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-5110-7/
Education in Emergencies for the Displaced Adolescents in Refugee Camps
A book chapter on Rohingya children education in camps is available https://www.irma-international.org/chapter/educating-rohingya-children-and-youth-in-emergencies/281945/
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