Recent Publications:
- Breitung, C., & Richards, J. (2022). The Evolving Nature of DDR: Study on Engaging Armed Groups Across the Peace Continuum. Bonn: BICC.
- Berks, M., Breitung, C., Engelberth, S., & Richards, J. (2022). Between concepts and reality: How to deal with armed groups in transition phases of violent conflict? (BICC Knowledge Notes series No. 01/2022/2022). Bonn: BICC.
- Berks, M., Breitung, C., Richards, J., & Tonn, A. (2021). The evolving nature of DDR. Study on engaging armed groups across the peace continuum: UN Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) & BICC.
- Richards, J. (2018). High risk or low risk: Screening for violent extremists in DDR programmes. International Peacekeeping, 25(3), 373-393.
- Richards, J. (2018). Troop retention in civil wars: Desertion, denunciation, and military organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of Global Security Studies, 3(1), 38-55.
- Richards, J. (2017). Demobilising and disengaging violent extremists: Towards a new UN framework. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 6(1), 14: 1-5.
- Richards, J., & Sharif, T. (2016). Towards a continental strategy for countering violent extremism in Africa. In Global Peace Operations Review.
- Richards, J. (2016). Implementing DDR in settings of ongoing conflict: The organization and fragmentation of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 5(1), 1-10.
- Richards, J. (2016, February). Matching needs and resources: Small arms control initiatives in the Greater Sahel, 2015–2016 (BICC Working Paper series No. 2/2016). Bonn: BICC.
- Richards, J. (2015). An institutional history of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). (CCDP Working Paper series No. 10). Geneva, Switzerland: Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding .
- Richards, J. (2014). Forced, coerced, and voluntary recruitment into rebel and militia groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 52(2), 301-326.
- Richards, J. (2013). DDR in the DRC: The impact of command and control. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace.
- Richards, J. (2013). Demobilization in the DRC: Armed groups and the role of organizational control (Armed Actors Issue Brief series No. 1). Geneva, Switzerland: Small Arms Survey.
Projects:
- Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in West Africa
- Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa
- Policy and technical advice in the field of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR)/security sector transformation (SST) in South Sudan
- G7 Conference SALW in the Sahel
- Small Arms Control
- Support to the Revision and Dissemination of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Standards
