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[Press] New Publication \ Preparation and Networks are Key for Returning Migrants: Findings based on Four Years of Research at BICC on Returnees' Reintegration Trajectories

• Migrant receiving countries in Europe have set up assistance programmes to facilitate the return and reintegration of rejected asylum-seekers, migrants with no legal status or those wanting to return. The question is: Do assistance programmes actually do so, and how do reintegration trajectories take shape from the perspectives of the returnees themselves? These were key questions in the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)-funded research project ‘Trajectories o...
• Friday, 31 March 2023: Results of the comprehensive empirical research are synthesised in BICC’s latest report: The Role of Return Preparedness, Assistance and Networks in Returnees’ Reintegration in Origin Countries (Synthesis Report).This report summarises the findings of four case studies conducted in the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Albania, Kosovo), West Africa (Ghana, Senegal and the Gambia) and the Middle East (Iraq). With the support of local researchers, the BICC team condu...

[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 ...

[Press] BICC Annual Report 2022

• The Annual Report 2022 presents empirical research conducted by BICC (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies) in regions characterised by violent conflict and its aftermath, forced migration dynamics and arms proliferation. Besides Ukraine, these include Afghanistan, Yemen or the Sahel.
• Wednesday, 30 November 2022: The Report also reflects the transfer of BICC’s academic expertise in policy and practice, such as in its cooperation with the African Union and the United Nations.The essay of the Annual Report 2022 by BICC researcher Dr. Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek is entitled “Humanitarian Emergency  and European Migration Policies: What can we Learn from the War in Ukraine?” . So, BICC’s Annual Report 2022 shows, among other things, how researchers investigate forced displacement and refugee movements in Afri...

[Publication] Global Militarisation Index 2024

• Despite the global increase in military spending, only a minority of states are following an armament trend. In only 52 of the 149 countries covered by the GMI has the volume of military expenditure, personnel and weapons increased relative to civilian benchmarks in recent years. And yet, there are a number of countries where relative investment in the armed forces has barely changed or even declined recently. 81 countries stand out for their demilitarisation. Looking regionally, it is striking ...

[Publication] Golbaler Militarisierungsindex 2024

• Trotz weltweit immer weiter steigender Militärausgaben folgt nur eine Minderheit aller Staaten einem Aufrüstungstrend. In nur 52 der 149 im Globalen Militarisierungsindex (GMI) erfassten Länder nahm in den letzten Jahren das Volumen militärischer Ausgaben, Personal und Waffen im Verhältnis zu zivilen Vergleichsgrößen zu. Auf der anderen Seite gab es eine ganze Reihe Länder, in denen sich die relativen Investitionen in die Streitkräfte über die letzten Jahre kaum veränderten oder sogar abgenommen...

[Event] Migrant Transnationalism

• Book Conversation
• Tuesday, 28 October 2025: What is the value of a transnational lens to understand the world at present? Join this webinar on 28 October (14–15 CET) for a conversation on the IMISCOE Short Reader on Migrant Transnationalism. Part of IMISCOE's Short Reader series, this book on ‘Migrant Transnationalism’ sets out to provide a compelling introduction to research on migrant transnationalism. In this book conversation webinar, the authors - Özge Bilgili and Marta Bivand Erdal - will present the book, and their motivations for ...

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[Publication] Annual Report 2009

• BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) will be 15 years old in 2009. It was founded in 1994 on the initiative of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).  With our Annual Report 2008/2009, we want to inform you about BICC’s current activities in the fields of applied research, advisory services and training at the nexus between peace and development worldwide.  Unfortunately, many of the hopes, which were placed in the term ‘conversion’ 15 years ago have not been realized. Th...