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The Poverty and Development (PAD) Seminar Series 2007 inviterer til gjesteforelesningen:

Living Where the Birds No Longer Sing: Rights-Based Approaches to Exclusion in Bangladesh

Dr. Tone Bleie, Professor, Institute of Planning and Community Studies Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, skriver:

Bangladesh moved from being considered “a basket-case” of underdevelopment in the 1970s to being currently considered a solid “on track” achiever on a number of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Bangladeshi state’s increasingly positive international recognition as a developmental state that delivers as a duty bearer to a range of international treaties, is however highly questionable in a number of rights-based areas, not the least when we are linking minority rights with access to justice for all.

This lecture will, following a brief introduction to the history of the contact between the colonial state and “tribal” societies of Greater Bengal and to state formation processes in the post-colonial period, focus on the nature of social exclusion against Adivasis of the north-western plains and in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

Recognising the interconnections between accountability of state and non-state actors, access to justice and poverty reduction, I will discuss three principal (and related) questions:

• Are there interconnections between the persistence of unaccommodative forms of nationalisms held by the state-bearing Bengali classes and the systemic nature of minority rights violations by state actors?

• What does the escalation of human rights and minority rights violations during the state of emergency tell about the military-civil nexus within the Bangladeshi state?; and

• Why has development assistance through the NGO-sector on a number of accounts, been ineffective in the north-west compared to CHT in addressing critical rights-based minority and indigenous issues?

Etterfølges av spørsmål, kommentarer og diskusjon fram til 12:00.

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