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[Press] GMI 2021 \ Militarisation increases worldwide—Despite adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy

• Even though the pandemic had a strong impact on the gross domestic product in some countries, militarisation increased in the majority of countries worldwide and across Europe compared to the previous year. This is the outcome of the Global Militarisation Index (GMI) 2021 issued by BICC (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies), which annually depicts the relative weight and importance of the military apparatus of one country in relation to its society as a whole. In its ‘anniversary edit...
• Friday, 21 January 2022: The ten counties with the highest levels of militarisation in the GMI 2021 are Israel, Oman, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Bahrain, Singapore and Russia. These countries allocate particularly large amounts of resources to the military in comparison to other areas of society.“The GMI 2021 allows for an even more accurate assessment of dynamics in militarisation than before, as for the first time, it not only indicates the ranking in the Index but also the change in the GMI va...

[Project] "Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation" Collaborative Research Center 228

• This research project, which is a Sub-Project of the CRC „Rural Future Africa”, examines the violent side of future-making in East and Southern Africa. It asks whether and how the social–ecological transformations which the overall CRC investigates, namely intensification of land use and conservation, change existing forms of organized violence or create new patterns of violence. Both transformations will be studied under the conceptual lens of frontiers. In the first phase of the CRC, this sub-...

[Project] "Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation" Collaborative Research Center 228

• This research project, which is a Sub-Project of the CRC „Rural Future Africa”, examines the violent side of future-making in East and Southern Africa. It asks whether and how the social–ecological transformations which the overall CRC investigates, namely intensification of land use and conservation, change existing forms of organized violence or create new patterns of violence. Both transformations will be studied under the conceptual lens of frontiers. In the first phase of the CRC, this sub-...

[Project] "Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation" Collaborative Research Center 228

• This research project, which is a Sub-Project of the CRC „Rural Future Africa”, examines the violent side of future-making in East and Southern Africa. It asks whether and how the social–ecological transformations which the overall CRC investigates, namely intensification of land use and conservation, change existing forms of organized violence or create new patterns of violence. Both transformations will be studied under the conceptual lens of frontiers. In the first phase of the CRC, this sub-...

[Staff] Maarit Thiem

• Project Coordinator
• Before joining BICC in 2019, Maarit managed the Global Nexus Secretariat at GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a global hub for an EU co-funded programme on the Water–Energy–Food Security (WEF) Nexus from 2015-2019. Prior to her assignment GIZ, she worked in Namibia for the GIZ Land Reform Programme as an integrated expert for the Legal Assistance Centre LAC (from 2011-2024). In LAC she implemented a research project that analysed the living conditions of the San ...

[Staff] Maarit Thiem

• Project Coordinator
• Before joining BICC in 2019, Maarit managed the Global Nexus Secretariat at GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a global hub for an EU co-funded programme on the Water–Energy–Food Security (WEF) Nexus from 2015-2019. Prior to her assignment GIZ, she worked in Namibia for the GIZ Land Reform Programme as an integrated expert for the Legal Assistance Centre LAC (from 2011-2024). In LAC she implemented a research project that analysed the living conditions of the San ...

[Staff] Maarit Thiem

• Project Coordinator
• Before joining BICC in 2019, Maarit managed the Global Nexus Secretariat at GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a global hub for an EU co-funded programme on the Water–Energy–Food Security (WEF) Nexus from 2015-2019. Prior to her assignment GIZ, she worked in Namibia for the GIZ Land Reform Programme as an integrated expert for the Legal Assistance Centre LAC (from 2011-2024). In LAC she implemented a research project that analysed the living conditions of the San ...

[Staff] Maarit Thiem

• Project Coordinator
• Before joining BICC in 2019, Maarit managed the Global Nexus Secretariat at GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a global hub for an EU co-funded programme on the Water–Energy–Food Security (WEF) Nexus from 2015-2019. Prior to her assignment GIZ, she worked in Namibia for the GIZ Land Reform Programme as an integrated expert for the Legal Assistance Centre LAC (from 2011-2024). In LAC she implemented a research project that analysed the living conditions of the San ...

[Staff] Maarit Thiem

• Project Coordinator
• Before joining BICC in 2019, Maarit managed the Global Nexus Secretariat at GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a global hub for an EU co-funded programme on the Water–Energy–Food Security (WEF) Nexus from 2015-2019. Prior to her assignment GIZ, she worked in Namibia for the GIZ Land Reform Programme as an integrated expert for the Legal Assistance Centre LAC (from 2011-2024). In LAC she implemented a research project that analysed the living conditions of the San ...