Rohingya education the next regional security crisis

Educating Rohingya refugees: Preventing a lost generation and future regional instability

Nearly a decade has passed since the mass displacement of the Rohingya people from Myanmar forced hundreds of thousands to seek refuge across the border in Bangladesh. In August 2017, a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State drove more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee their homes and settle in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Today, Bangladesh hosts over one million Rohingya refugees, making it one of the largest and most protracted refu…

Rohingya education the next regional security crisis

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Nearly a decade after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar’s military violence in 2017, the humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps is often described in terms of food rations, shelter or security. Yet one of the most consequential dimensions of the crisis remains largely overlooked: education. More than half a million Rohingya children of school age are currently living in the camps in Bangladesh. Most of them…