Wali ur Rahman

Early Life and Career

Chairman, Bangladesh Heritage Foundation, National Security & Counter Terrorism, Center for Genocide & De-radicalization Research, Democracy, Security and Human Rights Research. Former Executive Director, Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) Former Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Special Envoy of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (1997-1998) Joined Pakistan Foreign Service in 1966. He resigned in Geneva in 1971, in protest against the Pakistan military action in Bangladesh and declared allegiance to the Mujibnagar Govt.

Memberships

1. Member of International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from 1975.
2. Life Member of Oxford University Club
3. Associate Member of International Peace Academy, New York.
4. Member Society for International development (SID) Rome
5. Life Member of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB),
6. Life Member of Asiatic Society
7. Life Member of Dhaka University Alumni Association
8. Life Member, Bangla Academy
9. Life Member Bangladesh History Council, DU
10. Contributed papers at the Heritage Foundation Washington DC on Bangladesh along with Deputy Asst. Secretary of State John Gastright and Congressman Joseph
    1. Crowley, President, Bangladesh Caucus in 2007.
    2. Addressed International Law Institute (ILI) at Washington DC on anticorruption campaign in Bangladesh-2007.
    3. Contributed paper at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Canada on Bangladesh in 2007.
    4. Addressed at the Chatham House, London on Bangladesh situation in 2007.
    5. Presented paper on Bangladesh at the National Defense University (NDU) at Washington DC-2008
    6. Presented paper on the strategic impact of climate change in Bangladesh as per the IPCC (IV) Report at the Henry L. Stimson Center-2008, Washington DC.
    7. Interacted with Scholars (Professor Stephen Cohen), at the Brookings Institution, and Professor Salig S. Harrison, Center for International Policy-2008
    8. Presented paper at the IISS GSR conference on Transnational Security Threat to Bangladesh and Rise of Islamist Extremism in South Asia in 2007
    9. Presented a paper on “The Widening Counter-Terrorism Challenge” at the 3rd IISS GSR Conference held on September 16–18, 2005 at Hotel Intercontinental, Geneva.
    10. Contributed to “Counter-Terrorism: New Approaches” and National Intelligence apparatus particularly in developing countries focusing on the need for strengthening the role of police and special Branch Intelligence Services under the supervision of the Ministry of Home/Interior Ministry. He also focused on the role of reformed police system in Bangladesh in upholding Human Rights issues and Rights of Women and Children at the 7th IISS GSR Conference held on September 11–13, 2009 at Hotel Intercontinental, Geneva.
    11. Drafted a National Report on “Bangladesh’s Preparation for Universal Periodic Review” in 2008.
    12. Presented a brief on “State of Media and Democracy in Bangladesh” organized by Rita Payne, Chair, Commonwealth Journalists Association, UK in September, 2009.
    13. Specially contributed to enhance bilateral understanding and cooperation between India and Bangladesh.
    14. Piloted Membership of all UN Agencies based in Geneva, Rome, Vienna and Berne.
    15. A Received Bangabandhu in Geneva August - September 1972 and in September 1973.
    16. Met President of South Africa Nelson Mandela – January 1997 and invited him to Bangladesh for our Silver Jubilee Celebration.
    17. Anchor of BTV English programme 2008-2010.
    18. Chief National and International Coordinator of the Trial of Bangabandhu Killers’.
    19. Writes in various newspapers on commission & participates in different TV programmes.
    20. Adviser of the International Crimes Tribunal now being held in Bangladesh, Published Two Books for the Tribunal and initiated the process of Trial through a Daylong Training Session for the Hon’ble Justices distinguished Prosecutors and Investigators.

Publications

1. UN: We Believe In
2. A Decade of Bangladesh in the UN;
3. Bangladesh and the United Nations
4. Allume Le Lamp Dorre
5. Kutnoitic Bishaw
6. Bengali Translation of Poems of noted poets into French sponsored by Bangla Academy,
7. Aryan-Dravidian Synthesis: Fear or Hope (in the works)
8. Untold Story of a Nation (in works)
9. Revised Editions of UN: We Believe In (in the works)
10. Translated contemporary Bangla Poems of recognized Bangla Poets into French. Bangla Academy sponsored it.
11. Editor of the Journal of International Affairs and Editor of an Anatomy of BILIA Judicial Training with Difference.
12. Emergence of Bangladesh as the 136th UN member state: Role of superpowers in the shadow of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a Pakistani jail, (in the works).
13. A Diplomats Diary
14. Bangla translation of the poems of Yevgeni Yuvteschenko and Pablo Neruda. Now in the works for February Boi Mela.
15. His book Transition to Democracy in Bangladesh has just been published by the UPL
16. Rites of Passage: From a Jihadi State to Failed State (Pakistan). To be Being assisted by the Brookings Institution and Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholar, #Professor Salig S. Harrison, Washington DC, and Ahmed Rashid (Descent into Chaos fame) a Pakistani but works for Daily Telegraph, London).
17. ইতিহাসের শেষ দেখা: বঙ্গবন্ধুর সাথে ২৭ দিনের একান্ত আলাপচারিতার একটি দলীল।
18. Monograph on National Security and Development Council
19. Monograph on Brief History of the Framing of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973.
20. Forgotten War: Forgotten Genocide
21. Third International Criminal Law(Edited)
22. Transit and Transshipment(Edited)
23. Role of the Armed Forces in Strengthening Democracy(Edited)
24. Single Currency in South Asia(Edited)
25. Roundtable on New Regionalism and South AsiaEdited Roundtable on New Regionalism and South Asia(Edited)
26. Autobiography and Fiction of a Diplomat.( in the works)