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[Project] Demobilisation and small arms control in West Africa - Sahel region

• BICC plans to continue working in Mali in 2015, building on experience gained over the course of a short project in 2014 on assessing the state of arms and ammunition management with the Malian armed forces. The project’s first component will focus on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Control, particularly Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) of government-owned arms. BICC has done an in-depth assessment on this in the second half of 2014, and this forms ...

[Event] Local Perspectives on the HDP Nexus – Insights from Mali, Iraq, and South Sudan

• Dissemination Workshop (online)
• Tuesday, 18 March 2025: On Tuesday, 18 March 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00, the online dissemination workshop "Local Perspectives on the HDP Nexus – Insights from Mali, Iraq, and South Sudan" will present findings from the three-year research project "How can the HDP Nexus Succeed? NGOs Between Humanitarian Aid, Development Assistance and Peacebuilding." This public event will be held in English with translation into French and Arabic.

[Publication] International and local researchers facing security challenges: in what forms can research still be done in northern Mali

• International and local researchers facing security challenges: in what forms can research still be done in northern Mali

[Publication] Moving beyond the focus on environmental migration towards recognizing the normality of translocal lives: Insights from Bangl...

• Moving beyond the focus on environmental migration towards recognizing the normality of translocal lives: Insights from Bangladesh
• In the popular debate about climate change and adaptation in Bangladesh, migration is most often framed in a negative light: People are fleeing due to environmental changes and are displaced in the wake of disasters. Mobility is largely seen as a reaction and migrants as more or less passive victims of climate change. While numerous studies seem to prove this observation, others highlight migrants’ agency and see them as drivers of social transformations. Mobility opens up livelihood opportuniti...

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[Publication] Why there is a need to reframe the discourse on armed groups in Mali: Requirements for successful disarmament, demobilisation...

• Why there is a need to reframe the discourse on armed groups in Mali: Requirements for successful disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration
• In Policy Brief „Why there is a need to reframe the discourse on armed groups in Mali” the author Claudia Breitung addresses requirements for successful disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration in the country. In particular, she gives the following policy recommendations: \ Get agreement on integration modalities before advancing with global DDR in Mali   There is an urgent requirement to endorse the Presidential decree on the modalities of the allocation...

[Project] Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in West Africa

• With this project, BICC continues capacity development activities on PSSM in two focus countries of the enhancement initiative of the German federal government (Ertüchtigungsinitiative der Bundesregierung): Nigeria and Mali. It complements the PSSM Capacity Building and Advisory project, which is currently undertaken by BICC with the African Union and the Regional Centre on Small Arms (RECSA). BICC has supported PSSM capacity development activities in the ECOWAS region since 2014 wh...

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[Publication] Rethinking ‘Intercommunity Conflict’ in Central Mali

• Rethinking ‘Intercommunity Conflict’ in Central Mali
• This article re-examines the notion of “intercommunity conflict”, commonly used to characterize recent confrontations (from 2015 onwards) between armed men/groups from Fulani and Dogon communities in central Mali, particularly in the Mopti and Bandiagara regions. The violence arising from these tensions easily lends itself to facile oppositions between Dogon victims and Fulani executioners, or vice versa, giving thus the impression that ethnic groups are substantial entities to whic...

[Publication] Spotlight on Humanitarian-Peace-Development Implementation in Mali

• Spotlight on Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus Implementation in Mali
• This Spotlight on Mali is part of a larger study on the implementation of the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus approach. It sheds light on the specific context of Mali and why the HDP approach has been highly contested in this context. The HDP approach aims to make humanitarian and development interventions more sustainable in conflict-affected and fragile contexts and to combine them with a peacebuilding component. Focussing on a decolonial perspective, the S...