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[Press] The GAPs project has launched at BICC!

• GAPs is not an acronym – it’s a reference to a disconnect between what global return migration policies are expected to do, and what they do in practice. Migration return is a vital component of how national and EU asylum programs are managed. Yet, there is little alignment on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of return. Critically, the experience of migrants is hardly considered when policymakers make decisions on return migration.
• Friday, 23 June 2023: The GAPs project wants to change this. Specifically, it will: a) scrutinise the shortcomings of the EU’s governance of returns internally and externally.b) examine the complex interactions of policymakers and local actors involved in return processes to shed light on cooperation failures.c) analyse the perspectives of migrants themselves to understand their knowledge of return policies, aspirations, and experiences.GAPs is a new Horizon Europe project coordinated by Uppsala University and BICC w...

[Event] The GAPs project has launched at BICC!

• GAPs is not an acronym – it’s a reference to a disconnect between what global return migration policies are expected to do, and what they do in practice. Migration return is a vital component of how national and EU asylum programs are managed. Yet, there is little alignment on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of return. Critically, the experience of migrants is hardly considered when policymakers make decisions on return migration.
• Friday, 23 June 2023: The GAPs project wants to change this. Specifically, it will: a) scrutinise the shortcomings of the EU’s governance of returns internally and externally. b) examine the complex interactions of policymakers and local actors involved in return processes to shed light on cooperation failures. c) analyse the perspectives of migrants themselves to understand their knowledge of return policies, aspirations, and experiences. GAPs is a new Horizon Europe project coordinated by Uppsala University and BIC...

[PDF Document] 6_S2-BG1-Renewables-Schuetze-MENA-ElectricityRing.pdf   (1.36 MB)

[PDF Document] 6_S2-BG1-Renewables-Schuetze-MENA-ElectricityRing.pdf   (1.36 MB)

[Staff] Dr Birgit Kemmerling

• Senior Researcher
• PhD at University of Leipzig; MA in Geography at University of Cologne (minors Social Anthropology and Political Sciences)Birgit Kemmerling joined BICC in November 2019 as a researcher for a project on sustainable transformation processes in rural Morocco. Prior to this, she conducted extensive research on governing water in the agricultural sector in Egypt and on sustainable range management in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. She also worked at Caritas Germany for...

[PDF Document] bicc_AR_2016.pdf   (3.97 MB)

[PDF Document] bicc_AR_2016_01.pdf   (3.97 MB)

[PDF Document] MENA_Select-Electricity_Planning_for_Sustainable_Development_in_the_MENA_Region-tech_description.pdf   (3.84 MB)

[Publication] Annual Report 2016

• The number of those who flee from war and violence and who live in makeshift shelters in a permanent state of humanitarian emergency—for instance in refugee camps—rose dramatically in the past year. With a number of research projects, the topic of ‘displacement’ was in the focus of the work of the peace and conflict research institute BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) in 2015/2016. Further important topics of the Annual Report are research and advisory activities on small arms cont...

[Publication] Global Militarisation Index 2018

• Compiled by BICC, the Global Militarisation Index (GMI) presents on an annual basis the relative weight and importance of a country's military apparatus in relation to its society as a whole. The GMI 2018 covers 155 countries and is based on the latest available figures (in most cases data for 2017). The index project is financially supported by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.Israel, Singapore, Armenia, Cyprus, South Korea, Russia, Greece, Jordan, Brunei and ...