"PREFACE: The Rohingya crisis defies easy summary. Terms such as ethnic cleansing, genocide, abuse of human rights, have all been applied to what is undoubtedly a major humanitarian crisis of our times. Understanding and responding to the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas requires a multi-disciplinary approach, with the need for engagement from a wide variety of perspectives. Legal and medical questions, issues around cultural contexts and the physical environment, psychological and social factors, religious and political considerations, are all highly relevant. There is no simple solution to a whole complex of interconnected issues: here, as in so many other cases, the eruption and tragic human consequences of collective violence raise innumerable challenges. It is all the more urgent that we can bring people together to engage in the kind of informed debate that can assist intelligent action. We are delighted that such a distinguished and broad range of scholars and practitioners have contributed their insights in this booklet of abstracts, and that some of them will be able to contribute further in person at the conference held at UCL on 4- 5 July 2019. We welcome participation in what we hope will be a productive set of encounters, seeking both to understand and, through enhanced understanding, to inform more effective responses to this still unfolding crisis.....Genocide Studie.....FORWARD : According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are over 70 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. As an underlying principle of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030 is to leave no one behind, it is essential that the needs and aspirations of the forcibly displaced are addressed. Of these about 10 million are stateless. With limited or no legal rights, and often denied refugee legal status, the challenges they face are severe. About one third of the stateless forcibly displaced, belong to the Rohingya diaspora. The Rohingya are a Muslim-majority ethnic group from today's Rakhine State in Myanmar. After a long period of systematic exclusion, the Rohingya were stripped of their citizenship in 1982. Since the late 1970s, nearly two million Rohingya have fled Myanmar, with another one million living as internally displace people (IDPs) within Rakhine State, in waves of violent forced displacement perpetrated by the Myanmar authorities. Violence towards the Rohingya in Myanmar from 2017, caused the mass displacement of people to southeastern Bangladesh. The Human Rights Council acting under UN resolution 34/22 has cited this as a crime against humanity and called for an investigation for genocide against the authorities in Myanmar. The majority of the nearly one million displaced persons are residing in overcrowded temporary makeshift shelters, of bamboo frames and plastic sheeting, in Cox’s Bazar district. Kutupalong is the world’s largest refugee camp. These camps are highly susceptible to rainfall-triggered landslides, flash flooding and cyclones and the likelihood of a public health emergency from infectious diseases is high, which in this vulnerable population threatens new disaster...."