About me
Bina D’Costa (Bangladesh), Chairperson
Ms. D’Costa is a Professor, Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School, the Australian National University (ANU) and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. She has published six books and many essays, including Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia (2011), Children and the Politics of Violence (2017) and Cascades of Violence (co-authored with John Braithwaite, 2018). She is a member of the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission, Bangladesh. As a Senior Migration and Displacement Specialist with UNICEF, she led its research program at the Office of Research. As a frontline researcher and humanitarian practitioner, she has contributed to Europe, East Africa and Horn of Africa refugee emergencies, and served in the first UN Rohingya Emergency Response Mission in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. She has provided inputs and technical advice to witness protection and victim support mechanisms at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh, and various civil society justice initiatives in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Cambodia. Bina also led research on reparations for victims of sexual violence in Bangladesh with BLAST. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, United States in 2020 and the Ann Tickner Award from the International Studies Association (ISA) in 2022.
