Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) Updates

By Esther Meininghaus, Rodrigo Bolaños Suárez, Boubacar Haidara, Birgit Kemmerling, Marie Müller-Koné, Ahmad Al-Khalil, Riyadh Al-Khadhra, Mario Behrens, Flavia Eichmann, Maria Grosz-Ngaté, Fabian...

Introduction This Spotlight on South Sudan is part of a larger study on the implementation of the humanitarian– development–peace (HDP) nexus approach, which aims to make humanitarian and development...

Introduction This Spotlight on Mali is part of a larger study on the implementation of the humanitarian–development– peace (HDP) nexus approach. It sheds light on the specific context of Mali and why...

Introduction This Spotlight on Iraq is part of a larger study on the implementation of the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus approach, which aims to make humanitarian and development...

SUMMARY The humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus is designed to render humanitarian responses to populations in need more sustainable by better linking the three fields of H, D and P activities...

Marie Müller-Koné Benjamin Etzold Violent conflicts play a crucial role in current food crises. In northern Kenya, the number of food insecure people is now at its highest level over a decade. At the...

24 April 2019: The African Union Defence and Security Division of the Peace and Security Department, in Partnership with the German Federal Foreign Office and Bonn International Centre for Conversion...

'Conflict sensitivity' is a catchword that addresses business practices in environments of armed conflict. The United Nations Global Compact and international finance institutions are devoting...

New publication about arms registration and marking, and community security and arms control in West Darfur In the “Report on the Work of the Arms Registration and Marking (ARM) Program and on...

On 16 February 2014, BICC organized a workshop at the Friendship Hall in Khartoum to validate the findings of a study on the arms registration and marking process in Darfur. Consultant Sami Faltas...

The year 2013 has marked the beginning of a new era at BICC with the introduction of a dual leadership structure. Conrad Schetter was appointed Director for Research in March and his position is...

The Global Militarization Index (GMI) 2013 shows that the Middle East continues to be the most highly militarized region in the world. Experts of BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) point...

More than 80 kilograms of IT equipment, including a number of desktop computers, laptops and cameras were handed over to the Sudan DDR Commission (SDDRC) on 17 September 2013 in Khartoum during a...

On 18 of September 2013, the first batch of demobilized soldiers graduated from the three-month orientation training at the Mapel Transition Facility. H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit—President of the...

In close cooperation with the Bundeswehr Verification Center (ZVBw), BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) has developed an online small arms and light weapons guide. The Guide is available...

On 28 August 2012, BICC and the Verification Center of the German Armed Forces organized an experts’ meeting at the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City. With an estimated...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BICC was commissioned to undertake a study on issues relating to Return and Reintegration (RR) of actors displaced by the fighting in Sudan and to provide action-oriented data on...

BICC Annual Report 2012: Textbook examples of preventive security policy The Annual Report of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) will be presented in Bonn on 11 July 2012. This...

Abstract Commercial security affects a number of development-related factors, such as the capacity of states to govern, overall feelings of public safety, economic growth and social welfare. Findings...

On Saturday, 9 July 2011, the six-year transitionary period of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement will come to an end: with the birth of the 54th state on the African continent. It is expected that...