April CommUniversity Workshop: American University of Beirut

Friday, July 29, 2022

8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4

The CommUniversity 2022 workshop series, organized by OSUN and the Talloires Network, showcases university civic engagement approaches (frameworks, strategies, methods, and practices) that have been shown to produce favorable results and that represent a standard suitable for adoption or adaptation.

This workshop features the BRAC University Centre for Peace and Justice's (CPJ) unique research approach for amplifying community voices in the emergency setting of Cox’s Bazar. The session will showcase how CPJ created a Trust Network amid Cox's Bazar Rohingya refugee and host communities to engage people with research activities and strengthen the capacities of local researchers to document knowledge. The session will also delineate how local researchers are monitoring social differences, emerging concerns and people’s perspectives via a WhatsApp Chat Hour and Pod Analysis. The aim of sharing such insights and experiences is to enable the global research community to adapt their techniques and methodology.

	Shahariar Sadat Director, Academic and Legal Empowerment Centre for Peace and Justice Brac University	Shahariar Sadat joined the CPJ team in April 2021 as the first Director, responsible for the two areas: Academic and Legal Empowerment. Shahariar is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and an accredited mediator and master trainer on mediation. Prior to joining CPJ, he was the Head of the Programme of Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (HRLS) at BRAC.
	Azizul Hoque Research Associate Centre for Peace and Justice Brac University	Azizul Hoque is a Research Associate and academic course facilitator at CPJ, Brac University. Mr Hoque is a William P. Fuller fellow of The Asia Foundation, San Fransisco. He has expertise in qualitative social research and pedagogy. He is one of the innovators of several research approaches such as Trust Network, and WhatsApp Chat Hour. He recently leads a number of studies in Cox’s Bazar, on Rohingya refugee crisis.
	Tasnuva Ahmad Research Associate Centre for Peace and Justice Brac University	Tasnuva Ahmad is a Research Associate at Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), Brac University. She has been doing research under the Refugee Studies Unit of CPJ. Previously, Tasnuva worked as a Fellow for Teach for Bangladesh, an NGO devoted to removing inequalities in educational opportunities in Bangladesh. She was a Global Girls’ Education Fellow of Teach for All in 2017. Her core focuses are on Education, Peace-Building, and Gender Equality. She is an Indian Government Silver Jubilee Scholar.
	Shahriaz Ahmmed Project Officer Centre for Peace and Justice Brac University	Shahriaz Ahmmed is a Project Officer with the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), Brac University, in Bangladesh. He is experienced in qualitative research and his area of interest includes access to justice, social development, human rights, and sustainable development. Mr. Ahmmed published several articles in national daily newspapers, appraising various policies, addressing different social and economic issues.
	Shung Thui Prue Project Officer Centre for Peace and Justice Brac University	Shung Thui Prue joined the Centre for Peace and Justice, Brac University in October 2020 as a Research Assistant where she was responsible for undertaking literature review, assisting with the development of study tools, performing field works, interviews, experiments and piloting; In August 2021, she started her new role as Project Officer for the project “Strengthening Social Cohesion and Resilience in Cox’s Bazar by engaging Rohingya Refugees and Host Community”.
	Shamima	Shamima is a learner of CPJ. She is also an undergraduate student at the Asian University of Women. She is Currently participating Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills 9CRITAS) for peace course of CPJ in Cox’s Bazar.
	Rashedul Hasan	Rashedul Hasan is a learner of CPJ. He is currently participating Social Differences Monitoring and Perception Analysis project of CPj in the Host community.

Other workshops in the series feature leaders in the field of university civic engagement and run each month from February 2022 through July 2022, highlighting innovative community-university research in communities in the United States, Lebanon, South Africa, Australia, and more. Learn more about the Engaged Research Fund grants here.

Learn more details about the workshops here.

For more information or questions, please email talloiresnetwork@tufts.edu.

Community-Based Research in an Emergency Context with BRAC University (Bangladesh)

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