Deradicalisation and Rehabilitation of Violent Extremist Offenders in the Global South

Über den Autor

Dr Imtiaz Ahmed is the Executive Director of the Centre for Alternatives, Bangladesh, and a retired Professor of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. He has authored, co-authored, and edited 60 books and 23 monographs, published 130 research papers in leading national and international journals, and edited volumes. His recent publications are the following books: Rights, Rivers, and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh (Berlin, 2021); Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh, co-authored with Niloy Ranjan Biswas (Dhaka and London, 2022); Celebrating 100 Years of the University of Dhaka in 7 edited volumes (Dhaka, 2023); The Changing Nature of Geopolitics and the Futures of Bangladesh, edited (Dhaka, 2024). His forthcoming book, 50 Years of Bangladesh-China Relations: Achievements, Challenges & Prospects, is co-edited with Enayetullah Khan (Dhaka: COSMOS Foundation & Nymphea Publications), i.p. Email: imtiazalter@gmail.com

Dr ASM Ali Ashraf is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. He holds a PhD in International Security Policy from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His teaching and research interests are broadly in security and intelligence studies, international migration, and public policy. He has authored more than two dozen journal articles and book chapters at home and abroad. He has edited a volume titled Intelligence, National Security, and Foreign Policy: A South Asian Narrative (Dhaka: DILTA and DUIR, 2016, reprinted 2019). He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London. He is currently working on several evidence-based studies examining the militarisation of counterterrorism practices in South Asia, Labour Migration Governance in Bangladesh, and the Role of ICT in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Global South. Email: aliashraf@du.ac.bd

Dr Niloy Ranjan Biswas is a Professor of the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka. He has undertaken his studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; and City, University of London, London, UK. In 2016, he completed his PhD in International Politics from City, University of London. His most recent articles are published in Bandung Journal of the Global South, National Security (VIF), Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, International Peacekeeping (Taylor & Francis), Journal of International Peacekeeping (Brill), Social Science Review (University of Dhaka), Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) Journal and Mirpur Papers (Defense Services Command and Staff College, Bangladesh).