Wednesday, 20 September 2023

New publication \ Coup in Niger: Why Military Intervention is Doomed to Fail

Since 2020, six military coups have occurred in the Sahel region, the latest being in Niger on 26 July 2023. Until then, Niger was considered a "stability anchor" for international and national support for the Sahel. In this BICC Policy Brief the authors argue why Germany should not support a military intervention. » more

Thursday, 07 September 2023

Peace Report 2023 is featured as non-fiction book of the Month

The Peace Report “Peace Is a Long Way Off” is ranked 8th in the non-fiction books of the month for September 2023. The list is presented by rbb Kultur. » more

Wednesday, 02 August 2023

Establishment of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation Ethics Committee

On 19 June 2023, the Johannes Rau Research Foundation (JRF) established its new Ethics Committee. » more

The GAPs project has launched at BICC!

GAPs is not an acronym – it’s a reference to a disconnect between what global return migration policies are expected to do, and what they do in practice. Migration return is a vital component of how national and EU asylum programs are managed. Yet, there is little alignment on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of return. Critically, the experience of migrants is hardly considered when policymakers make decisions on return migration. » more

Peace Report 2023 presented at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin

The war in Ukraine and its global consequences remain a central theme of the Peace Report. According to the assessment of the four leading German peace research institutes, the European NATO countries should prepare for a protracted war of attrition and permanent support for Ukraine. » more

Event

Make Peace with Nature: Climate Crisis, Conflict and War
11 September 2023, 4-6pm, Netzwerk politik:atelier e.V., Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 13, 53113 Bonn

The transformation of African agency in the 21st century
20 September 2023, Università di Napoli, Naples

BICC Annual Conference 2023: "Autocratic Warfare in the 21st Century"
13 December 2023, Universitätsclub Bonn
More information will follow shortly.

New Publications

Şahin-Mencütek, Z., & Balamir Coşkun, B. (2023). Refugees. In , A Companion to Modern Turkey's Centennial. Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations since 1923 (pp. ).: Edinburgh University Press.

Korf, B., Frieters-Reermann, ., & Schetter, C. (2023). Gewalt. In , Transformative Geographische Bildung (pp. 37-42). Heidelberg: Springer Link.

Schetter, C. (2023). Afghanistan – die Rückkehr der Taliban aus konfliktgeographischer Sicht. . Geographische Rundschau, 9, .

Balamir Coşkun, B., & Şahin-Mencütek, Z. (2023). Diaspora governance during the pandemic: The case of Turkey. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, .

Oakes, R., van der Geest, K., Schraven, B., Adaawen, S., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., de Sherbinin, A., Etzold, B., Groth, J., Hermanns, K., Lakeman, S., Nawrotzki, R., Rademacher-Schulz, C., Romankiewic, C., Serraglio, D., Sterly, H., Thalheimer, L., Wiederkehr, C., & Williams, D. (2023). A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility. International Migration, 1-10.

Heinemann-Grüder, A. (2023). Wie enden Kriege? Einsichten für den Ukrainekrieg. Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik , : Springer.

El-Bialy, N., Aranda, E., Nicklisch, A., Saleh, L., & Voigt, S. (2023). No Man is an Island: Trust, Trustworthiness, and Social Networks among Refugees in Germany. Journal of Population Economics , 1-27: Springer .

Heinemann-Grüder, A. (2023). German Self-Images and Russia's Influence. In , Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship (pp. 267-286). Stuttgart: ibidem Press.

Bales, M. (2023). Yemen: Civil War as a Driver of Regional Arms Dynamic. In , The Arms Race in the Middle East (pp. 209-224).: Springer, Cham.

Bales, M., Heinze, M.-C., & Mutschler, M. (2023). Zooming in on the Yemen War - The Future of Warfare and Human Rights in the Middle East Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

BICC in the Media

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

Drohungen aus Belarus. "Wagner wurde für die Drecksarbeit erfunden", Article with quotes by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, t-online, 25 July 2023 (in German)

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen“

„Krieg zeigt, dass russische Siegesrhetorik nur noch eins ist: aufgeblasen

Evkourov et Averianov : un général et un espion pour l’après-Prigojine en Afrique?, Article with quotes by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, France 24, 20 September 2023 (in French)

Wann folgt der Nächste?, Article by Boubacar Haidara, IPG Journal, 5 September 2023 (in German)

Une nouvelle configuration au Sahel, Roundtable with Boubacar Haidara, DW.com, 18 August 2023 (in French)

Saudi-Arabien: Deutschlands Hilfe beim grausamen Grenzschutz, Interview with Max Mutschler (5:06 - 5:25, 6:23 - 6:34, 8:50 - 9:05), Monitor, 31 August 2023 (in German)

Syriens unbeugsamer Aufschrei: Die aktuellen Proteste im Fokus, Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, Watson, 30 August 2023 (in German)

"Weg mit dem Regime" In Syrien formiert sich wieder Widerstand gegen den Despoten Assad, Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, Tagesspiegel, 29 August 2023 (in German)

Gegen Assad wird wieder demonstriert, Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 28 August 2023 (in German)