Bina D’Costa

Bina D'Costa is an Australian-Bangladeshi academic who specializes in conflict and gender studies in South Asia.[1][2][3][4]

Career

D'Costa was at the Global Justice Center in New York City in 2008.[5] In her 2011 book, Nation Building, Gender, and War Crimes in South Asia, she wrote about the murder of Bihari citizens during the Bangladesh Liberation war.[6] The Daily Star described her book as a "mammoth task"; she provided a gendered analysis of conflict in South Asia.[7] She has also carried out research on Birangona, rape victims of Bangladesh Liberation war.[8] She also tracked down Australian doctor, Geoffrey Davis, who carried abortions for rape victims after the war ended.[9]

D'Costa was a professor of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs of the Australian National University. She was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva from 2012 to 2014.[10] She was a visiting scholar at the Refugee Studies Centre under Department of International Development of University of Oxford from 2011 to 2012. She served as the Asia Rapporteur of Asia-Europe Meeting in 2017.[5] She is a member of the Dristhipat Writers’ Collective.[11] She has written on how Rohingya people have been excluded and marginalized by the government of Myanmar.[12]

Bibliography
  • Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific (2010)[10]
  • Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia (2011)[10]
  • Children and Global Conflict (2015)[10]
  • Children and Violence: The Politics of Conflict in South Asia (2016)[10]
  • Cascades of Violence: War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia (2018)[10]
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References
  1. Maini-Thompson, Sapan. "'They all became animals': My grandfather remembers the trauma and violence of India's Partition". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  2. "The discursive silence of women in 1971". The Daily Star. 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  3. "The forgotten Biharis". Daily Times. 2017-12-03. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  4. "A pathway to justice through jurisdiction?". The Daily Star. 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  5. Director (Research Services Division). "Professor Bina D'Costa". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-07-12.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. "Stranded, unwanted, and persecuted". Dhaka Tribune. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  7. "The Birangana and the birth of Bangladesh". The Daily Star. 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  8. "The Women of 1971, on Either Side of the Bengal Border". The Wire. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  9. Hossain, Anushay. "1971 Rapes: Bangladesh Cannot Hide History". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  10. "Bina D'Costa". unicef-irc.org. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  11. "Bina D'Costa | The Opinion Pages". opinion.bdnews24.com. 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  12. "Forum". archive.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
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