Umme Wara

PhD Candidate

Associate Tutor

Advice and Feedback hours:
Wednesday: 11.00-15.00

General/PhD correspondence:

Umme dot Wara at warwick dot ac dot uk

Teaching and staff enquires:

Umme dot Wara dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Profile

Umme Wara (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS). With an interdisciplinary background in law and criminology, at PAIS she currently researches Rohingya refugee victims’ understanding and participation in accessing justice for the human rights violations committed against them.

She holds three masters from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (LLM in International and Comparative Law), the University of Wollongong, Australia (Master in Transnational Crime Prevention with AusAID scholarship), and the University of Torino-UNICRI, Italy (LLM in International Crime and Justice with university scholarship), respectively.

Before starting her Ph.D. at the University of Warwick, Umme served the Department of Criminology, University of Dhaka, as an associate professor. Besides, she has been teaching in different public universities since 2010 in Bangladesh. She also worked in the Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh, for seven years as the team leader of the Legal Volunteer Team and coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Justice. She regularly writes column on contemporary sociopolitical issues in the leading newspaper of Bangladesh, the Daily Prothom Alo.

In PAIS, Umme has been teaching undergraduates as a graduate teaching assistant. She has also been working as a Race and Ethnic Minority Representative in the PGR Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) for the academic years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.

Umme is also a recipient of Dee Dutta Award for overseas PhD research to conduct her fieldwork in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh in 2024.

Research Interests

Transitional Justice, Refugee and Migration, Genocide Studies, Victimology, Human Rights, Gender and Crime, and Youth Crime and Justice

Recent Publications

Understanding the Rohingya Displacement: Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives. Coauthored with Md. Rafiqul Islam. Chapter 07: Rohingyas in Bangladesh, Sociopolitical Conflict Potential, Springer Publications, South-South Migration Series (April 2024)

"Conflict Potential of the Rohingya People in Bangladesh and Beyond." Coauthored with Md. Rafiqul Islam. Published by Journal of ASEAN Studies (JAS), Volume 10, Number 01. (August 2022)

"Reconciliation and Justice Mechanism in the Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh." Published by the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies. Vol 43(4). (October 2022)