Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam (Rafiq Shahariar)

Md Rafiqul Islam Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Thoughts and Visions: Emancipation, Peace, and Development. London: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2025 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Kawsar Ahmed Understanding the Rohingya Displacement Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Springer, 2024 .

Md Rafiqul Islam Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in Bangladesh. London: Routledge, 2023 .

Md Rafiqul Islam (Ed) Peace and Conflict Studies in Bangladesh: Tow Decades of Excellence in Education and Research. Dhaka: Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2022 .

Md Rafiqul Islam Climate Change, Migration and Conflict: A study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh (PhD Thesis). Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2019 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Amena Khatun "A History of Rohingya Displacement, Rohingya Ethnicity, and Contested Identity in Myanmar and Bangladesh." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam Springer, 2024 23-36 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "The Continuing History of Rohingya Settlement in Bangladesh." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam 2024 37-45 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Economic and Environmental Conflict Potential." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam Springer, Singapore, 2024 65-81 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Maria Hussain "Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Regional and International Conflict Potential." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam Springer, Singapore, 2024 83-93 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Umme Wara "Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Sociopolitical Conflict Potential." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam Springer, Singapore, 2024 95-118 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Muhammad Mazedul Haque "Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees: Prospects and Challenges." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement: Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam Springer, Singapore, 2024 257-273 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Etu Ahmed "Updates on Rohingya Repatriation to Myanmar: The Tale of a Never-Ending Process." Understanding the Rohingya Displacement: Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Kawsar Ahmed and Md Rafiqul Islam Springer, Singapore, 2024 275-293 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Jubaida Auhana Faruque "Human Rights in Bangladesh: Success and Challenges." Human Rights in Contemporary Society - Challenges From an International Perspective. Jana Mali IntechOpen, 2023 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "১৫ আগষ্ট সপরিবারে বঙ্গবন্ধুকে হত্যা ও বাংলাদেশের গণতন্ত্রের অগ্রযাত্রার মূলোৎপাটন (The killing of Bangabandhu with his family in 15 August and uprooting the advancement of democracy in Bangladesh)." The Development Philosophy of Bangabandhu. Planning Ministry Dhaka: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), 2022 339-356 .

Md Rafiqul Ialam "শান্তি ও ন্যায়বিচার প্রতিষ্টায় বঙ্গবন্ধু (Contribution of Bangabandhu in establishing Peace and Justice)." The Bangabandhu Lectures (2020-2022). Professor Fakrul Alam (Ed) Dhaka: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Research Center for Peace and Liberty (BSMRIPL), 2022 221-242 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Field experience in conducting research in conflict zone: a study in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh." Field Guides for Research in Community Settings: Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies. M Rezaul Islam (EDs.) Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Climate change-induced migration in Bangladesh: Existing research and research gap." Handbook of Climate Change Management. Walter Leal Filho Springer, 2020 1-22 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Power and Peace." Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. A. Farazmand (Eds.) Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Ziaul Haque "Climate Change and Human Security in Bangladesh: An Analysis." Climate Change and Threats to Human Security. Narattam Gaan Kalpaz Publication, Gyan Books Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, India, 2014 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Environmental Security and Conflict in Bangladesh: Nature, Complexities and Policies." Peace and Conflict Studies: South Asian Perspective. Upadhyaya, PRyankar (Eds) Cambridge University Press, India, 2014 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Problems of Democracy in Bangladesh." Democracy and Peace in South Asia. Pancha Maharjan (Eds.) Nepal Center for South Asian Studies and Hiroshima University, 2013 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Bangabandhu in the Global Context." Bangabandhu and Bangladesh: An Epic of a Nation's Emergence and Emancipation. Md Emdadul Bari (Ed) Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh, 2021 103-127 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Md Monirul Islam "From 7 March to Independence (Sat-e-March Theke Swadhinata) (In Bengali)." Tailor and Francis, 2022 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Umme Wara "Intra-Group Conflict Among Rohingya Displaced People in Bangladesh." The Rohingya Crisis and the Two-Faced God of Janus: What Lies Ahead. Edited by Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin Lanham, Maryland: LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2022 31-52 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : Living with uncertainty: Teesta Water insecurity and its impacts on livelihoods and cultural practices in four districts of Bangladesh, Regional Environmental Change (impact factor:4.2) , vol.26 , no.93 Springer , 2026 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : An assessment on surging crime, gender violence, and justice mechanisms in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, Women's Studies International Forum (impact factor:1.5) , vol.111 , 2025 .

Md Rafiqul Islam, Nazneen Sultana and Mohammad Shaheenur Alam : "Life in Transition: A Study of Climate Migrants’ Adaptation and Perceptions in Urban Slums and Rural Villages in Bangladesh, Comparative Sociology (impact factor:0.7) , 2025 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB’S PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEND OF ‘HAVE-NOTS’: AN ANALYSIS, BIISS Journal , vol.45 , no.2 , pp.153-184 , 2024 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Sharmin Ahmed : The State of Acculturation and Identity Distress among Stranded Adolescent Biharis in Bangladesh, Diaspora Studies (impact factor:2) Brill , pp.1-27 , 2023 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : The State of Social Cohesion in the Post-Settlement of Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Brill , 2023 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Umme Wara : Conflict Potential of the Rohingya People in Bangladesh and Beyond, JOURNAL OF ASEAN STUDIES (impact factor:1) , vol.10 , no.1 BINUS University , pp.107-127 , 2022 .

Md Rafiqul Islam, Susanne Schech and Udoy Saikia : Climate change events in the Bengali migration to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh, Climate and Development (Taylor & Francis online) (impact factor:4.20 (2020)) , 2021 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : The current trend of Bengali migration and settlement to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study, Social Science Review , vol.56 , no.2 , pp.49-68 , 2019 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Mohammad Shaheenur Alam : The development paradox: Mega project, resource scarcity and conflict nexus in Bangladesh”, Social Science Review: The Dhaka University Studies, Part D , vol.35 , no.2 , pp.23-42 , 2018 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : 'Climate Refugee’ to ‘Climate Migrants’: What status ensures the rights of the of the climate change-induced people?, Bangladesh Journal of International Affairs, , vol.21 , no.1&2 , 2017 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : “Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Research in the Conflict Zone: An Overview", BIISS Journal , vol.37 , no.3 , 2016 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Anurug Chakma : “Major Obstacles to the Process of Implementing Peace: Experience from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh”, Journal of Peace and Conflict Review, University for Peace , vol.7 , no.2 , 2013 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Md Touhidul Islam : “Environmental Degradation, Migration and Conflict: A Case between Bangladesh and India”,, Journal of Asian Affairs, Centre for SAARC Studies, Andhra University, , vol.4 , no.1&2 , 2011 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : “Climate Change Induced Disasters and Gender Dimensions: Perspectives Bangladesh”., International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Development Studies , vol.1 , no.1 , 2010 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : “Mining, livelihood, Human Rights and Environmental Concern: A Case Study of Phulpari Coal Mine in Bangladesh”., Journal of Social Science Review, , vol.27 , no.1 , 2009 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Fahima Durrat : “Religious Extremism in Bangladesh: Causes and Priorities”, Journal of Conflict Management and Development, BHU, India , vol.3 , no.3 , 2009 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : Peace Studies: Evolution and Prospects, Journal of Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D, , vol.23 , no.1 , 2006 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Dr. Dil-Rawshan Zinnat Ara Nazneen : Ethnopolitical Conflict: Causes and Consequences, Journal of Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D, , vol.21 , no.2 , 2004 .

Md Rafqul Islam and Dr. Reazul Haque : Peace, Development and Security: A Trinitical Relationship, Journal of Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, Part- D, , vol.20 , no.2 , 2004 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Md Reazul Islam : Peace, Development and Security: A Trinitical Relationship, Journal of Social Science , vol.20 , no.2 , 2003 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : CLIMATE CHANGE AND STATE FRAGILITY: A STUDY OF BANGLADESH, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Hum.) , vol.66 , no.1 Asiatic Society of Bangladesh , pp.1-23 , 2021 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Touhidul Islam; Shaheenur Alam and Maria Hussain : Is Bhasan Char Island, Noakhali district in Bangladesh a sustainable place for the relocated Rohingya displaced people? An empirical study, SN Social Sciences A Springer Nature Journal , pp.1-22 , 2021 .

Md Rafiqul Islam and Sheikh Shams Mursalin : Landlessness as the key challenge to climate change adaptation of the rural poor in Bangladesh: an empirical study, Asian Geographer (impact factor:1.61) Tailor and Franscis , 2021 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : Violent peace: community relations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh after the Peace Accord, Conflict, Security & Development (impact factor:2.2) Taylor and Francis , 2022 .

Md Rafiqul Islam : An Assessment of the Sustainability of Living for Rohingya Displaced People in Cox’s Bazar Camps in Bangladesh, Journal of Human Rights and Social Works (impact factor:1.2) , vol.7 , no.3 Springer Nature , 2022 .

Md Rafiqul Islam "Field research in the conflict zone: An empirical study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh." Research in Difficult Setting Colgate University, USA, 2018 .