Iftekharul Bashar is an Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), a specialist unit within the S. Rajararatnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

He has obtained a Bachelors (Hons.) and Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Dhaka. Prior to joining RSIS, he worked with several think-tanks in Bangladesh including Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA), Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), and Bangladesh Institute for Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS). Iftekharul Bashar received two awards from the University of Dhaka for his essays.

His latest publication is a book chapter titled “Impact of the Rohingya Crisis on the threat landscape at the Myanmar– Bangladesh border” which is part of a joint Asia-Europe Counter-Terrorism Dialogue” project of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and RSIS.

• Political Violence and Terrorism in South Asia
• Counterterrorism
• Assessment of PVE/CVE programmes
• Rohingya Crisis and regional security

Commentaries

• Global Health Security - Weaponising COVID-19: New Trend in Pandemic Era?

  13 April, 2020

• Arakan Army: Myanmar’s New Front of Conflict

  12 July, 2019

• War on Drugs: How To Win in Philippines, Bangladesh

  28 January, 2019

• CO16043 | Bangladesh: Checking Violent Extremism

  24 February, 2016

• CO15123 | Checking Human Smuggling: The Bangladesh-Myanmar Borderland

  21 May, 2015

• CO13187 | Violent Radicalisation in Bangladesh: A Second Wave?

  08 October, 2013

• CO12023 | The Challenge of Radicalisation: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh

  07 February, 2012

• CO11017 | The Facebook Jihad

  14 February, 2011

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 15 Issue 01

  03 January, 2023

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 04

  12 August, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 04

  13 September, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 01

  06 January, 2020

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 11 Issue 06

  18 June, 2019

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 10, Issue 01

  01 January, 2018

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 09

  18 September, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 06

  05 June, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 06

  05 June, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 03

  28 February, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 9, Issue 01

  03 January, 2017

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 06

  24 July, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 2

  01 March, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 6

  01 June, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 6

  01 June, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 4

  01 April, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 4

  01 April, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 1

  01 January, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 1

  01 January, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 11

  01 November, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 11

  01 November, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 6

  01 June, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 6

  01 June, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 4, Issue 1

  01 January, 2012

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 3, Issue 4

  01 April, 2011

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 3, Issue 4

  01 April, 2011

Op-Eds

• “Top 12 ISIS Leaders in East Asia”, Al Aan TV (Dubai), 25 September 2022