Our Work:

Michael Ashkenazi - Senior Researcher

• Bulletin Staff
  Spotlight
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Contact

• Phone: +49 228 / 91196-48

Expertise

• Small Arms (SALW) control, stockpiles, surplus
• DD&R, notably reintegration
• CIMIC, specifically post-conflict development
• SSR
• Cultural and ritual aspects of violence
• Evaluation
• Training and training materials
• Project management

Regional expertise

• Eastern Africa (Sudan)
• Central Asia (Afghanistan)
• SE and E Asia
• West Africa (Ghana)

Projects

• Training and Education on Small Arms (TRESA (external link))
• Evaluation of SALW projects
• Training material for OECD SSR Handbook
• Traditional Conflict Resolution
• Stockpile and surplus control

Output

Publications

• Policy Paper: Putting the cart before the horse: AWACs and fundamental policy objectives in Afghanistan
• 2007 and Susan Hough. "Konflikte im Sudan - Uraschen und Prognose [Conflict in Sudan - Origins and prognosis]) in Bruno Schoh et al. (eds) Friedensgutachten 2007 (external link) [Annual report of the German Peace Research Community]. Berlin: Lit Verlag
• TRESA modules (external link)
• 2006 Julie Brethfeld and Michael Ashkenazi "Kleinwaffenkontrolle [Small arms control]" pp. 131-150 in Andreas Heinemann-Grüder (ed.) Konversion und Konflikttransformation [Conversion and conflict transformation]. Hagen: Fernuniversität.

Studies

• 2008 Piracy causes and solutions (ongoing).
• 2008 Traditional Conflict resolution in 3 cultures (ongoing).
• 2008 Tracking SALW confiscated in Colombia (ongoing).
• 2008 Return and Reintegration in 3 South Sudan counties.
• 2007 Evaluation of HALO SALW destruction, Afghanistan.
• 2007 Surplus SALW stockpiles, Kazakhstan.