ABSTRACT
Despite the continued kinetic response, Bangladesh faces a sustained threat of terrorism. As the number of incarcerated violent extremists grows in the country’s prisons, locating the gaps in its criminal justice responses and addressing them with a long-term perspective is essential. Terrorist rehabilitation is a viable way to change the terrorists’ hearts and minds and to help them to reintegrate into mainstream society. Bangladesh can examine, learn, and choose from various models of rehabilitation and tailor it to its own requirements. The Rome Memorandum can be a good guide in this regard. The chapter recommends that Bangladesh develop a multimodal rehabilitation programme encompassing religious, psychological, vocational, creative arts, sports and recreation, and social rehabilitation. In addition, the chapter emphasises a coordinated and multi-agency collaboration in this regard and recommends that in order to develop the bedrock of an effective rehabilitation programme, Bangladesh must address its prison management issues. In the final analysis, the chapter emphasises building capacity for better management of prisons and an effective future rehabilitation programmes.
