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• [Project] SARCOM: Sub-regional small arms control mechanism - Sudan, Chad etc.

  • Since November 2012, BICC is supporting efforts to control the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Sudan and its Western and Southern neighbours CAR, Chad, DRC, Libya and South Sudan, which signed a treating forming the Sub-regional Arms Control Mechanism (SARCOM). The project works at different levels: at the local level in West Darfur, BICC supports community-based efforts at SALW control and armed violence reduction through local committees of traditional leaders. At...

• [Publication] Annual Report 2014

  • The Annual Report 2014 presents BICC’s implementation of its new research strategy. Problems of organised violence and the search for avenues to overcome these lie at the heart of BICC’s work. Emphasis is placed on the theme of “Arms control and arms transfers”, particularly in the Sahel region. The Sahel region, where cross-border dynamics of violent conflicts are worsening and threaten to escalate, is currently one of the regional foci of BICC’s research and advisory activities. An essay in th...

• [Publication] Annual Report 2014

  • The Annual Report 2014 presents BICC’s implementation of its new research strategy. Problems of organised violence and the search for avenues to overcome these lie at the heart of BICC’s work. Emphasis is placed on the theme of “Arms control and arms transfers”, particularly in the Sahel region. The Sahel region, where cross-border dynamics of violent conflicts are worsening and threaten to escalate, is currently one of the regional foci of BICC’s research and advisory activities. An essay in th...

• [Publication] Annual Report 2014

  • The Annual Report 2014 presents BICC’s implementation of its new research strategy. Problems of organised violence and the search for avenues to overcome these lie at the heart of BICC’s work. Emphasis is placed on the theme of “Arms control and arms transfers”, particularly in the Sahel region. The Sahel region, where cross-border dynamics of violent conflicts are worsening and threaten to escalate, is currently one of the regional foci of BICC’s research and advisory activities. An essay in th...

• [Publication] Making a living in rural Sudan.

  • Food Production of Women, Labour Migration of Men, and Policies for Peasants' Need.This book was first published in Basingstoke/London/New York by MacMillan Press / St. Martin's Press in 1998. The rights have been reverted to the author, Elke Grawert, in 2007. Reproduction, copy of transmission of this publication may be made if author and source is quoted according to academic standards. The Darfur crisis has brought Sudan back to public attention since the outbreak of violence i...

• [Press] New publication \ Country report Niger

  • The current “Country Report Niger” by the Peace and Conflict Research institute BICC gives an overview over basic data on the military sector and investigates the position of the country in relation to criteria of the EU Common Position on arms exports.
  • Wednesday, 4 March 2020: Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. Islamist militias, among them Boko Haram and splinter groups of Al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State, terrorise the country. In the course of its so-called Enable and Enhance Initiative, the German federal government increased its arms exports to Niger in 2018 to enable it like other countries in the region to deal with internal and regional crises. In its Country Report (in German), BICC assesses the security situation in Niger to be extre...

• [Publication] Making a living in rural Sudan.

  • Food Production of Women, Labour Migration of Men, and Policies for Peasants' Need. This book was first published in Basingstoke/London/New York by MacMillan Press / St. Martin's Press in 1998. The rights have been reverted to the author, Elke Grawert, in 2007. Reproduction, copy of transmission of this publication may be made if author and source is quoted according to academic standards.  The Darfur crisis has brought Sudan back to public attention since the outbreak of violence...

• [Publication] Making a living in rural Sudan.

  • Food Production of Women, Labour Migration of Men, and Policies for Peasants' Need. This book was first published in Basingstoke/London/New York by MacMillan Press / St. Martin's Press in 1998. The rights have been reverted to the author, Elke Grawert, in 2007. Reproduction, copy of transmission of this publication may be made if author and source is quoted according to academic standards.  The Darfur crisis has brought Sudan back to public attention since the outbreak of violence...

• [Publication] Making a living in rural Sudan.

  • Food Production of Women, Labour Migration of Men, and Policies for Peasants' Need. This book was first published in Basingstoke/London/New York by MacMillan Press / St. Martin's Press in 1998. The rights have been reverted to the author, Elke Grawert, in 2007. Reproduction, copy of transmission of this publication may be made if author and source is quoted according to academic standards.  The Darfur crisis has brought Sudan back to public attention since the outbreak of violence...

• [Page] Pilot Project for the Multi-dimensional Measurement of Militarisation

  • In the Greater Sahel border regions are frequently hot spots in long running conflicts which are used by nonstate armed groups for their benefit but they are also spaces where people and communities socially culturally and economically connect and build important interrelations on different scales We believe that these border complexes have unique historic and socioeconomic features which need to be considered more strongly when developing approaches to dealing with armed groups that are operat...