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Safety and securityin North Bengal,BangladeshA youth perception surveyBangladesh Enterprise Institute, Bangladesh, and SAFERWORLD, ukmarch 2012
AcknowledgementsThis report represents an analysis of primary and secondary research conductedbetween November 2010 and April 2011 by the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI)with technical and financial support from Saferworld. This report was prepared byMohammad Humayun Kabir and Dipta Chakma at BEI with comments from RosyCave, Chamila Hemmathagama and Neila Husain at Saferworld. Special thanks goto Faiz Sobhan, Asish Banik, Ayreen Khan, Sumaiya Nour and Moynul Haque fortheir advice and contributions to this report. Thanks are also due to Eleanor Gordonfor editing the report. Finally, thanks goes to all those people living in North Bengal,Bangladesh, officials from the Government of Bangladesh, security service providersand civil society members for their contributions and support in conducting thisresearch.BEI and Saferworld are grateful to the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Governmentof Norway, for its financial support for this project.AcronymsBDHSBEIBIPSSFGDIEDJMBKIINGOSAARCSALWSPSSUKBangladesh Demographic Health SurveyBangladesh Enterprise InstituteBangladesh Institute of Peace and Security StudiesFocus group discussionImprovised explosive deviceJamaat-ul-Mujahideen BangladeshKey informant interviewNon-governmental organisationSouth Asian Association for Regional CooperationSmall arms and light weaponsStatistical Package for the Social SciencesUnited Kingdom© BEI and Saferworld, March 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this publication maybe reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without full attribution.Saferworld welcomes and encourages the utilisation and dissemination of the materialincluded in this publication. Please contact Saferworld if you would like to translatethis report.
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