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[Publication] Rüstung und Militär in Westafrika: Regionale Sicherheitskooperation in der ECOWAS und die Rolle externer Akteure

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[Publication] Towards a typology of wartime rape

• BICC brief 43 “Towards a Typology of wartime rape” aims at developing a typology of wartime rape as a first step toward understanding the different consequences of this form of violence in war. This typology is based on the examination of wartime rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina and El Salvador as well on a review of the literature on ten additional country cases of wartime rape (Cambodia, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea/ Bougainville, Peru, Rwanda,

[PDF Document] BICC_Policy_Brief_4_2019.pdf   (210.65 KB)

[Publication] Governing the gift of nature resource conflict monitor: The links between governance, conflict and natural resources

• The cocoa trade from Côte d’Ivoire, the country’s main commodity has played a major role in the four-and-a-half-years of armed conflict. Over US $118 million revenues from the cocoa trade flowed into the conflict by funding both the government and the rebel group ‘Forces Nouvelles (FN)’ in the North of the country (Global Witness 2007). Last year, the UN expert panel on Côte d’Ivoire reported that diamonds were still being smuggled out of the country via Mali and Ghana in violation of the United...

[PDF Document] occasional_paper_II_04-09.pdf   (446.75 KB)

[Publication] Global Militarisation Index 2015

• Compiled by bicc, the Global Militarisation Index (GMI) presents on an annual basis the relative weight and importance of a country's military apparatus in relation to its society as a whole. The 2015 GMI covers 152 states and is based on the latest available figures (in most cases data for 2014). The index project is financially supported by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). There are numerous sources of conflict around the world that are driving militar...

[Staff] Fiona Wilshusen

• Researcher
• Already during my studies, my research interest was in the field of security, militarisation and development. In my Master's thesis, I focused on the relationship between society and armed actors and the gender implications of this relationship – and thus examined the media framing of (fighting) women in conflicts using the example of the depiction of Kurdish female fighters in British media. Internships with the German Armed Forces and the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in...
• Publication: When the 'War Attitude' persists: How Pro-Government Militias affect Society in the Long Run, Resorting to so-called pro-government militias (PGMs) in the face of severely challenged state forces is a timeless phenomenon in government politics across the globe. However, providing military training and distributing weapons to civilians can represent a security risk—in the short and the long term. Sierra Leone and Liberia share a history of protracted civil wars with the involvement o...

[PDF Document] SAD_Nexus_Paper_2022_web.pdf   (721.2 KB)

[Staff] Jonas Spekker

• Student Assistant
• Jonas Spekker holds a Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Geography from the University of Leipzig. He is currently a graduate student of the joint Master’s degree ‘M.Sc. Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security’ at the University of Bonn and the United Nations University. Jonas spent six months each in Liberia (2013) and Sierra Leone (2018), where he worked in development-related NGOs and gained profound insight into local politics and history. He joined the Data and GIS depart...

[Publication] Annual Report 2011

• Since the publication of its last Annual Report, BICC has initiated an intensive discussion on the future direction of its work. We have asked ourselves in which programmatic fields we wish to conduct and provide our applied research, advisory and training services over the years to come. We want to focus our work more strongly in order to do even better justice to our task of promoting peace, security and development throughout the world. A further central consideration was how we can establish...