The contrast between global haves and have-nots has never been starker during this on-going pandemic. The “underlying condition” in world politics, from poverty, climate change, to conflict and migration has been compounded by the borderless sweep of COVID-19. In the frenetic efforts to regroup and redesign social, political, and economic institutions toward a more resilient and inclusive ecosystem for global human security, there is a dire need to address the challenges of those who have consistently been left behind – particularly the refugees and the stateless – as victims of geopolitics, legacy of colonialism and the pitfalls of the UN system that privileges the sovereignty of the nation-state. This panel discusses this issue as a nexus of inequality and access to education, through the example of the complex challenges met by the Rohingya.
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