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• [Press] BICC Annual Report 2019 \ Research in the field and advisory activities in regions with ever-changing violent conflict settings

  • BICC’s Annual Report illustrates: The unique scientific expertise of the institute derives from the empirical insights that its researchers in particular gain by conducting fieldwork on the ground or providing advisory services in regions with ever changing violent conflicts.
  • Wednesday, 30 October 2019: In his foreword to BICC Annual Report 2019, Professor Herbert Wulf, founding director of BICC from 1994 to 2001, praises the development of the peace and conflict research institute that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year: “BICC has risen to the new challenges and developed diverse, practice-oriented research and advisory projects”.With its focus on organised violence, BICC also investigates the interplay of violence, societal order and change. “The starting point for our research in the ...

• [Press] BICC Annual Report 2021 \ From Conversion to Conflict research

  • As of 15 September 2021, BICC's new name is Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies. Against this background, the Annual Report 2021 depicts the advances of the peace and conflict research institute and its growing expertise in research and policy advice.
  • Thursday, 2 December 2021: "Conversion became 'Conflict Studies'. This change of name is owed to the fact that the world has changed rapidly in the last thirty years", explains Conrad Schetter, Director of BICC. "Global conflicts are not characterised by disarmament and conversion but by a new military build-up. Entire regions, such as the Horn of Africa or Sahel, are affected by violent conflicts. This is what BICC deals with", emphasises Conrad Schetter, Director of BICC.  This Annual Report 202...

• [Press] BICC Annual Report 2020 \ Peace and conflict research in times of COVID-19

  • It will, in all likelihood, be some time before the real extent becomes visible to which COVID-19 has led to profound upheavals in societies and economies and set in motion new conflict dynamics. Restricted by the pandemic, BICC staff still continued their empirical research in regions characterised by forced displacement, volatile, violent conflicts and arms proliferation. BICC’s Annual Report illustrates the unique expertise of BICC: Research and policy advice that put the perspective of affec...
  • Wednesday, 2 December 2020: The Essay in the Annual Report 2020, for instance, addresses the extent to which refugees who have fled war and violence and other migrants are affected by the pandemic. “COVID-19 is like a magnifying glass: It shows all too clearly existing problems in society. To put it bluntly, it is about the question of who has the right to mobility and who has not”, Conrad Schetter, Director for Research at BICC, explains. In 2020, BICC's research also placed great emphasis on forced displacement. At the s...

• [Publication] Rüstungsexportkontrolle

  • Ein Rüstungsexportkontrollgesetz als Beitrag der Ampelregierung zu einer restriktiveren und transparenteren Rüstungsexportpolitik scheint in weiter Ferne. Dennoch kann die Bundesregierung die zweite Hälfte der Legislaturperiode nutzen, um ihrem Wahlversprechen nachzukommen und die Praxis der Rüstungsexportkontrolle verbessern. Wir zeigen wie. Im Koalitionsvertrag und der Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie formulierte die Bundesregierung den Anspruch einer restriktiven Rüstungsexportpolitik. Als zen...

• [Publication] Rüstungsexportkontrolle

  • Ein Rüstungsexportkontrollgesetz als Beitrag der Ampelregierung zu einer restriktiveren und transparenteren Rüstungsexportpolitik scheint in weiter Ferne. Dennoch kann die Bundesregierung die zweite Hälfte der Legislaturperiode nutzen, um ihrem Wahlversprechen nachzukommen und die Praxis der Rüstungsexportkontrolle verbessern. Wir zeigen wie. Im Koalitionsvertrag und der Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie formulierte die Bundesregierung den Anspruch einer restriktiven Rüstungsexportpolitik. Als zen...

• [Publication] Rüstungsexportkontrolle

  • Ein Rüstungsexportkontrollgesetz als Beitrag der Ampelregierung zu einer restriktiveren und transparenteren Rüstungsexportpolitik scheint in weiter Ferne. Dennoch kann die Bundesregierung die zweite Hälfte der Legislaturperiode nutzen, um ihrem Wahlversprechen nachzukommen und die Praxis der Rüstungsexportkontrolle verbessern. Wir zeigen wie. Im Koalitionsvertrag und der Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie formulierte die Bundesregierung den Anspruch einer restriktiven Rüstungsexportpolitik. Als zen...