BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:“Securitization of the Rohingya Community: Why has the Rohingya problem become intractable?” \; \;Kyaw Zeyer Win\, MA-IR Candidat e\, Maxwell School\, Syracuse University.  \;In the last five years th e Rohingya community has been subject to renewed waves of anti-Muslim prop aganda and accompanying violence\, killings and systematic marginalization that aim both to permanently disenfranchise and to displace them from the ir native land. The relaxation of media restrictions alongside the ongoing political liberalization in Myanmar has exacerbated this situation. The b rutal ‘clearance operations’ inflicted upon the Rohingya community in 2017 has seen more than 650\,000 people flee across the border to Bangladesh a midst reports of extrajudicial killings\, sexual violence and arson by Mya nmar’s state military Tatmadaw. While the United Nations has declared this to be a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” (UNOHCHR 2017a)\, the atta cks on government targets have validated many Myanmar citizens’ long held belief that the Rohingya pose a threat to their nation and an existential threat to Buddhism\, the majority religion. So why has the Rohingya proble m become so intractable? I am going to present how over time the Burmese m ilitary government “securitized” the ethnic Rohingya community based on di fferent interests and ambitions\, portraying the Rohingya ethnic group as an existential threat to the state and society. I then go on to demonstrat e how these narratives are reproduced and reinforced by horizontal and bot tom-up securitization processes.Conversations in Conflict Studies is a wee kly educational speaker series for students\, faculty\, and the community. The series\, sponsored by PARCC\, draws its speakers from Syracuse Univer sity faculty\, national and international scholars and activists\, and PhD students. Pizza is served. Follow us on Twitter @PARCCatMaxwell\, tweet # ConvoInConflict.If you require accommodations\, please contact Deborah Too le by email at datoole@syr.edu or by phone at 315.443.2367. \; DTEND:20180221T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260514T230722Z DTSTART:20180221T174500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Conversations in Conflict Studies with Kyaw Zeyer Win UID:RFCALITEM639143824422442353 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Securitization of the Rohingya Com munity: Why has the Rohingya problem become intractable?” \;& nbsp\;Kyaw Zeyer Win\, MA-IR Candidate\, Maxwell School\, Syracus e University.  \;
In the last five years the Rohingya community has been subject to renewed waves of anti-Muslim propaganda and accompanying violence\, killings and systematic marginalization that aim both to perman ently disenfranchise and to displace them from their native land. The rela xation of media restrictions alongside the ongoing political liberalizatio n in Myanmar has exacerbated this situation. The brutal ‘clearance operati ons’ inflicted upon the Rohingya community in 2017 has seen more than 650\ ,000 people flee across the border to Bangladesh amidst reports of extraju dicial killings\, sexual violence and arson by Myanmar’s state military Ta tmadaw. While the United Nations has declared this to be a “textbook examp le of ethnic cleansing” (UNOHCHR 2017a)\, the attacks on government target s have validated many Myanmar citizens’ long held belief that the Rohingya pose a threat to their nation and an existential threat to Buddhism\, the majority religion. So why has the Rohingya problem become so intractable? I am going to present how over time the Burmese military government “secu ritized” the ethnic Rohingya community based on different interests and am bitions\, portraying the Rohingya ethnic group as an existential threat to the state and society. I then go on to demonstrate how these narratives a re reproduced and reinforced by horizontal and bottom-up securitization pr ocesses.

Conversations in Conflict Studies is a weekly educational speaker series for students\, faculty\, and the community. The series\, sp onsored by PARCC\, draws its speakers from Syracuse University faculty\, n ational and international scholars and activists\, and PhD students. Pizza is served. Follow us on Twitter @PARCCatMaxwell\, tweet #ConvoInConflict.

If you require accommodations\, please contact Deborah Toole b y email at datoole@syr.edu or by phone at 315.443.2367. \;

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