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    Violation of Land Use Plan and Its Impact on Community Life in Dhaka City

    2008
    Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is experiencing one of the highest rate of urbanization in the world. Over the years, the city has had inconsistent transformation of land use and organic development; which in turn created crisis in residential areas or neighborhoods and affected the city life adversely.
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    Minority Islam in Muslim majority Bangladesh: the violent road to a new brand of secularism

    2011
    More than 85% of Bangladesh ’ s 150 million people are Muslims. Bangladesh earns its title as “ the third largest Muslim country of the world ” following Indonesia and Pakistan because of its enormous size of Muslim population. Their religion , Islam, is however becoming a “ minority” day by day.
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    Responding to displacement: id21 insights, issue 44

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over the past 50 years, forced displacement has been a major obstacle to development and the fight against poverty. Despite the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others to find ‘durable solutions’ for those who are forced to flee their homes, attitudes have, if anything, hardened towards refugees and asylum-seekers.
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Preventing recruitment of child soldiers in ‘pre-conflict’ Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Poverty, discrimination, inequality and a culture of political violence in Bangladesh are increasing children’s vulnerability to being recruited as soldiers. There is currently no armed conflict within Bangladesh.
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    Child recruitment in South Asian conflicts: Bangladesh

    Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2007
    What drives the use of children as soldiers in conflicts, and what do we know about reducing their vulnerability to recruitment? This document presents information, lessons learned and recommendations on children’s situation in Bangladesh from the report: Child Recruitment in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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    Bangladesh today

    International Crisis Group, 2006
    Bangladesh faces twin threats to its democracy and stability: the risk that its political system will founder in a deadlock over elections and the growing challenge of militant Islamism, which has brought a spate of violence. This report gives an overall view of the world's third most populous Muslim country and assesses the implications for instability.
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    Bangladesh: minorities increasingly at risk of displacement

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2006
    This report looks at the trends and statistics of internal displacement in Bangladesh as a result of civil war and persecution of religious minorities.
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    The Human Security Framework and National Human Development Reports: a review of experiences and current debates

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006
    This paper identifies some interesting and useful applications of the Human Security Framework.
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    Bangladesh: Extremist Islamist Consolidation

    Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2003
    The 2001 general elections in Bangladesh have revealed the depth and sophistication of organisation of extremist Islamist organisations. Prominent and senior members of fundamentalist organisations are now members of the ruling coalition, signalling the possible beginning of a new era of non-secular government in Bangladesh.

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