Bina D'Costa is an Australian-Bangladeshi academic who specializes in conflict and gender studies in South Asia.[1][2][3][4]
D'Costa was at the Global Justice Center in New York City in 2008.[5] D'Costa was a professor of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs of the Australian National University. She was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva from 2012 to 2014.[6] She was a visiting scholar at the Refugee Studies Centre under Department of International Development of University of Oxford from 2011 to 2012. She served as the Asia Rapporteur of Asia-Europe Meeting in 2017.[5] She is a member of the Dristhipat Writers' Collective.[7]
In her 2011 book Nation Building, Gender, and War Crimes in South Asia, D'Costa wrote about the murder of Bihari citizens during the Bangladesh Liberation war.[8] The Daily Star described her book as a "mammoth task"; she provided a gendered analysis of conflict in South Asia.[9] She has also carried out research on Birangona, rape victims of the Bangladesh Liberation war.[10] She also tracked down Australian doctor Geoffrey Davis, who carried abortions for rape victims after the war ended.[11]
D'Costa has written on how Rohingya people have been excluded and marginalized by the government of Myanmar.[12]