Methodology The study espouses an emancipatory approach that centres youth agency and draws on best practices in the field of ‘participatory action research’. Rather than serve as local enumerators for an international project, the researchers developed the research questions themselves, and built the project in accordance with their own vision for their community with support from academic researchers. This participatory research project empowers young people residing in Cox’s Bazar to interview their fellow youth as well as adults and elders in their community. The model builds on Dr. Rebecca Sutton’s visit to Cox’s Bazar in July 2019, where she delivered intensive training to members of the ‘Rohingya Youth for Legal Action’ (RYLA) [4] organization, focusing on participatory action research. For more information on that training exercise, see ‘Field Note: Knowledge Exchange in Rohingya Camps in Cox’s Bazar’. Participants in the project Researchers Three dedicated community-based researchers supported the project. The main (adult) researcher guided two youth researchers to engage in community-based research and report their research findings to international donors and civil society organizations in Cox’s Bazar. The three reported to, and were supported by, a small team of three international research coaches. The remote support team assisted the main researchers to identify appropriate participants and to develop selection criteria for community interviews. All research activity took place within the Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh. The research coaching team comprised Imrul Islam, a graduate student of Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University who is originally from Bangladesh; Jessica Olney, an independent research consultant; and Dr. Rebecca Sutton, from Edinburgh Law School. Respondents Responses were collected throughout the months of May, June, and July 2020. This report draws on overall findings from the larger project (which includes 68 interviews in 6

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