Education
Tracing my academic journey and intellectual foundations.
Master of Science in Human Rights and Multiculturalism
USN — University of South-Eastern Norway, Drammen, Norway
2022–2025
Summary:
A 120-ECTS, research-intensive formation that fused international human rights, multicultural theory, and human rights education with a qualitative, interpretive method. I developed a rigorous, hermeneutic approach to climate justice in Bangladesh, treating rights as culturally situated yet normatively robust, and practiced translating theory into policy-relevant analysis.
Thesis: Rethinking Human Rights in the Anthropocene Through the Lens of Climate- Induced Flooding in Bangladesh — available via USN Open Archive.
Advanced Summary
My coursework in MHRMC610 International Human Rights Protection & the Role of Institutions and MHRMC620 Theories of Culture & Multiculturalism trained me to interrogate treaty bodies, the UPR system, and regional mechanisms while diagnosing cultural translation problems in rights claims. MHRMC710 Human Rights Education honed pedagogical design for rights literacy and community empowerment; MHRMC720 Philosophy of Human Rights strengthened normative evaluation across deontic, consequentialist, and capability-based frames; and MHRMC730 Research Methodologies & Transdisciplinarity research in the Field of Human Rights and Multiculturalism advanced my capacity of research design, interpretive rigor, ethics, and qualitative analysis. MHRMC820 Critical, Cultural & Religious Perspectives on Human Rights deepened my capacity to read rights discourses against power, tradition, and embodiment. A sequence of Research Tutorials (MHRMC704/801/901) embedded iterative inquiry, peer critique, and methodological reflexivity. Collectively, this arc produced concrete skills: comparative policy/legal analysis, stakeholder and governance mapping, qualitative coding and synthesis, theory-led case analysis, and public-facing communication of complex rights debates. Master’s Thesis (MHRMC900) consolidated these competencies through an original integration of Chakrabarty’s Anthropocene theses with Latour’s Actor–Network Theory to articulate actor-network justice and situated planetary injustice for climate-induced flooding and transboundary water governance
Master of Arts in Philosophy
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2007–2008
Summary:
Intensive graduate study that sharpened normative reasoning and analytic writing across metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, logic, philosophy of language, environmental ethics, philosophical anthropology, and twentieth-century thought.
Advanced Summary
Focused engagement with the moral philosophy of G. E. Moore and R. M. Hare (and major critics) refined my ability to test ethical claims for coherence, prescriptivity, and practical force, while philosophy of logic disciplined proof structure and fallacy diagnosis in complex arguments. Work in J. L. Austin’s philosophy of language strengthened sensitivity to speech-acts, performatives, and the ordinary-language texture of moral and political reasoning. Environmental ethics & policy connected value theory to governance trade-offs and regulatory design; philosophical anthropology linked conceptions of the human to norms, institutions, and rights. Concentrated study on Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre cultivated a range—from analytic clarity to existential critique—yielding durable skills in precise argument reconstruction, conceptual clarification, and ethically grounded evaluation of contemporary policy problems.
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Philosophy
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2003–2007
Summary:
A four-year honors program spanning Western (ancient–modern), Indian, Muslim, Chinese–Japanese, and Bengal traditions, anchored in sustained training in logic and ethics to build disciplined, comparative reasoning.
Advanced Summary
A staged logic sequence—introductory, symbolic, and philosophical logic—built formal precision, while the ethics sequence—introductory, historical, meta-ethical, and practical ethics—matured from foundational theory to applied judgment. Studies in philosophy of mind, language, science, education, social philosophy, and philosophy of religion connected conceptual analysis to lived institutions and civic life. Allied courses in psychology (introductory, social, industrial) and anthropology (physical, social, cultural) broadened methodological reach; decision theory and history of civilization deepened historical and rational choice literacy. Repeated viva-voce examinations consolidated clarity under pressure, responsiveness to critique, and the ability to defend a position with evidence, logic, and comparative insight.
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