"Introduction: With the decline of the Cold War, attention towards ‘environmental conflicts’ was well merited and now it is being fruitful in understanding the study of how environmental degradation acts as an agent in international and civil conflicts. The case of Cox’s Bazar is no different, the influx of Rohingya is adversely affecting the livelihood of the host community due to deforestation, inflation and competition over. Although national and international humanitarian agencies are providing services and creating opportunities for the local population along with the Rohingyas, resources appear relatively scarce compared to the scale of needs which in long term might turn into an adverse situation creating hostile conflict between the host community and the rohingya refugees..... Defining environmental conflict: Environmental conflict can be broadly understood as a social conflict relating to the environment. It can be a conflict over the environment, most notably in terms of access to and control over environmental resources. These so-called “resource conflicts” are defined by Elen Turner as consisting of “social conflict (violent or nonviolent) associated with both struggles to gain access to natural resources and struggles resulting from the use of natural resources.” From a neo-Malthusian perspective, environmental conflicts also consist of conflicts resulting from environmental processes – especially resource scarcity supposedly putting strains on social relations – even if the conflict per se is not over those “scarce” environmental resources. It rather generates from unequal distribution of those resources (Billon, 2015)..."