Prof. Dr. Herbert Wulf
Key expertise
International relations, arms control, arms transfers, conversion, peacekeeping and state-building as well as research and practical experiences in development co-operation.
(Academic) education / CV:
Herbert Wulf holds a BA in economics (University of Cologne), a Diploma in sociology (University of Hamburg) and a PhD in international relations (FU Berlin).
The government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, awarded a professorship to Herbert Wulf in 2002.
1966–70: Director of the German Volunteer Service in India
1970–1989: Researcher at the Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler and the Institute for Peace and Security Policy, University of Hamburg.
1989–1992: Project leader at the Stockholm International Peace Research Association (SIPRI). Two years later, he co-founded BICC and shaped the Center’s activities as director for seven years. Since 2001, he has been working as researcher and research associate at BICC as well as adjunct senior researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg/Essen. He is co-chair of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation study group on the future of the monopoly of force.
Herbert Wulf has served as a consultant to various international organisations, among them the Parliament and the Commission of the European Union as well as to the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, the Human Development Report of UNDP. He served as consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in Pyongyang, Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea on capacity building in disarmament in 1991 and between 2002 and 2007. He lectured at the Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany, where he was awarded the price for peace and conflict studies in 2007.
Collaboration with BICC:
He is collaborating with BICC in the project “Monopoly of force 2.0” which is organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.
Recent Publications:
- Bales, M., Brzoska, M., Ferl, A.-K., Hansel, M., Jakob, U., Kütt, M., Meier, O., Mutschler, M., Schörnig, N., Silomon, J., Wisotzki, S., & Wulf, H. (2021). Rüstungsdynamiken: Keine Rüstungskooperation ohne europäische Rüstungsexportkontrolle. In BICC, HSFK, IFSH, & INEF (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2021 (pp. 94-115). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Wulf, H. (2021). The rule of law: Undermined and under attack. Questioning the state monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force (Policy Brief No. 105). Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute.
- Wulf, H. (2020). The European Union’s security and defence policy: Struggling to find its role in the big power game (Policy Brief No. 88). Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute.
- Alwardt, C., Brzoska, M., Hansel, M., Jeremias, G., Johannsen, M., Meier, O., Mutschler, M., Schetter, C., Silomon, J., Wisotzki, S., & Wulf, H. (2020). Rüstungsdynamiken: Zwischen Cyberfrieden und Cyberkrieg. In BICC, HSFK, IFSH, & INEF (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2020 (pp. 93-115). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Wulf, H. (2020). Commentary \ Exhausts to respirators? Experiences in the conversion of production sites help to avoid misleading simplifications Bonn: BICC.
- Wulf, H. (2004). Internationalizing and privatizing war and peace. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Wulf, H. (2004). Internationalizing and privatizing war and peace: The bumpy ride to peace building.
- Brzoska, M., Kingma, K., Wulf, H., & Ball, N. (2002, June). Voice and accountability in the security sector (Paper series No. 21). Bonn: BICC.
- Wulf, H. (2000). Security-sector reform in developing Countries. An analysis of the international debate and potentials for implementing reforms with recommendations for technical cooperation.
- Wulf, H. (2000, July). Practical disarmament (Brief series No. 16). Bonn: BICC.
- Wulf, H. (2000, May). Security sector reform (Brief series No. 15). Bonn: BICC.
- Wulf, H. (2000, January). Disarmament and conflict prevention in development cooperation. Proceedings of an International Conference, 30–31 August 1999
- Klemmer, A., Hauswedell, C., & Wulf, H. (1995, November). Konversion - Herausforderung für Wissenschaft und Forschung Dokumentation der RWI/BICC-Konferenz am 16. März 1995 in Bonn
- Brzoska, M., Kingma, K., & Wulf, H. (1995, June). Military conversion for social development. Report on BICC panel discussion at the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 8 March 1995
- Bowers, M., Laurance, E., Kopte, S., Molas-Gallart, J., Nassauer, O., Wilke, P., & Wulf, H. (1995, May). Coping with surplus weapons: A priority for conversion research and policy (Brief series No. 3). Bonn: BICC.
- Brzoska, M., Kingma, K., & Wulf, H. (1995, February). Demilitarisation and conversion (Paper series No. 1). Bonn: BICC.
- Laurance, E., Wulf, H., & Di Chiaro III, J. (1994, December). Conversion and the integration of economic and security dimensions
