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ENGSlowly life returns to the old part of Mossul In March 2018 it is mostly quiet but the inhabitants are beginning to rebuild their houses and shops from the ruins The city that used to have over one million inhabitants was captured by socalled Islamic State in 2014 After three years of IS rule the city is again under Iraqi control since July 2017 According to NGOs at least 11000 civilians were killed during the fighting one million fled their homes since the beginning of the fighting Some hav...

ENGSlowly life returns to the old part of Mossul In March 2018 it is mostly quiet but the inhabitants are beginning to rebuild their houses and shops from the ruins The city that used to have over one million inhabitants was captured by socalled Islamic State in 2014 After three years of IS rule the city is again under Iraqi control since July 2017 According to NGOs at least 11000 civilians were killed during the fighting one million fled their homes since the beginning of the fighting Some hav...

brief 47 MANPADS A Terrorist Threat to Civilian Aviation Contents List of acronyms 4 Executive summary 6 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 8 1 MANPADS attacks on civilian aircraft 10 Princess Mawuena Amuzu Introduction MANPADS and the vulnerability of civilian aircraft 11 11 History 11 Discussion 19 Weapon and perpetrators 19 NSAGs and MANPADS 19 Aircraft vulnerability and outcome 20 Phase of flight 22 Attack location and civilian targets 22 Effects of civilian attacks by M...

The Bonn International Center for Conversion BICC an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the transfer of former military resources and assets to alternative civilian purposes T he transfer of resources from the military to the civilian sector represents both a social and an economic challenge as well as offering an opportunity for the states concerned The sustained process of disarmament during the decade following the end of the Cold War has made defense conversion an im...

BONN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CONVERSION INTERNATIONALES KONVERSIONSZENTRUM BONN brief 33 Water Governance in Southern Africa Cooperation and Conflict Prevention in Transboundary River Basins brief 33 Contents Introduction The global water crisisA crisis of governance 4 The context of natural resources and conflict or Why water is a special case 10 The context of weak states or Why water governance beyond the state 15 The international level Transboundary water management in Southern Afri...

Global and Regional Agreements on Small Arms and Light Weapons SALW Control module GRA 06A02 Global and Regional Agreements on Small Arms and Light Weapons SALW Control written by Mike Bourne Centre for International Cooperation and Security University of Bradford UK and the TRESA team module GRA 06A02 TRESA modules are produced by the Bonn International Center for Conversion BICC under a special grant from the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Federal Mini...

The Bonn International Center for Conversion BICC an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the transfer of former military resources and assets to alternative civilian purposes T he transfer of resources from the military to the civilian sector represents both a social and an economic challenge as well as offering an opportunity for the states concerned The sustained process of disarmament during the decade following the end of the Cold War has made defense conversion an im...

paper 46 Water Development and Cooperation Comparative Perspective EuphratesTigris and Southern Africa Water Development and CooperationComparative Perspective EuphratesTigris and Southern Africa by Lars Wirkus ed Proceedings of a workshop organized by Published by BICC Bonn 2005 Bonn International Center for Conversion Director Peter J Croll An der Elisabethkirche 25 D53113 Bonn Germany Phone 49228911960 Fax 49228241215 Email biccbiccde Internet wwwbiccde Contents Table of Contents Wirkus ...