Boise State News May 6, 2021
Saleh Ahmed portrait, SPS, faculty/staff, New Faculty Orientation Mobile Studio, Photo by Emma Thompson
Saleh Ahmed, an assistant professor in the School of Public Service, recently published two scholarly pieces. The first is titled Environmental Responsibility and Rohingya Refugees: Potential Grounds for Justice and was published in “Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.”
The abstract reads: “In response to extreme violence by Myanmar, over one million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh, resulting in massive-scale deforestation, land erosion, farmland degradation, and destruction of animal habitat, along with the Rohingya being denied basic environmental protections. Because neither Bangladesh nor the Rohingya is responsible for this environmental calamity, a variety of environmental legal claims can be raised against Myanmar, serving as grounds for proper redress to both the receiv