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[Project] Armed Groups in the Sahel

• Regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel In the Greater Sahel border regions are frequently hot spots in long running conflicts which are used by non-state 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 socio-economic features which need to be considered more strongly when...

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[Publication] Countering Lakurawa Recruitment in Northwest Nigeria

• Countering Lakurawa Recruitment in Northwest Nigeria
• Jihadist insurgents of the Lakurawa group remain active on Nigerian soil, where they continue to recruit new members. Without immediate, coordinated federal and local interventions to counter the insurgent group’s influence, the Nigerian state risks the entrenchment of parallel insurgent governance, increased radicalisation of rural communities, and the consolidation of a Sahelian insurgency through its Northwest corridor.

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• Force Persecution Violence and Multiple Mobilities Questioning Linear Understandings in Forced Migration ResearchSession Chairs Prof Dr Conrad Schetter & Dr Benjamin Etzold bicc A Journey of a Lifetime Displaced Peoples Struggles for HomeLuis Eduardo Perez Murcia Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Biographical Projects and Violence Experiences of Forced Migrants in the Case of Transit CountriesLudger Pries & Berna Safak Zülfikar Savci Ruhr Universität Bochum Co...

[Page] BICC Policy Brief - Jihadi Banditry

• Since 2017 government actors and international agencies USAID 2017 have repeatedly indicated that the situation in northeastern Nigeria the epicentre of the Boko Haram conflict was returning to normal In January 2023 for instance President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement from the presidency expressed his delight at the return of peace and normalcy in Yobe State and Northeast Nigeria Federal Government of Nigeria 2023 This narrative is not new Oginni 2023 a...

[Publication] Revenue transparency to mitigate the resource curse in the Niger Delta? Potential and reality of NEITI

• Revenue transparency to mitigate the resource curse in the Niger Delta? Potential and reality of NEITI
• The paper begins with a discussion of the possible negative consequences of oil exploitation in developing countries, often referred to as resource curse, introducing the analytical framework of the ‘petro-state’ (Section 1). In order to assess the relevance of revenue transparency for addressing problems in the Niger Delta, the author then investigates the extent to which the negative consequences of oil exploitation were due to a lack of transparency and accountability. For that p...

[Page] BICC Policy Brief - Vigilante

• Based on empirical quantitative and qualitative research conducted as part of a joint AUDPOBICC project this policy brief examines the risks that are associated with the engagement of vigilante groups in the Lake Chad Basin region LCB and provides recommendations for risk management and mitigation Vigilante groups have a long history in the Lake Chad Basin region They are mostly informal providers of security protection and law and order that emerge as a local civilian response to the ineffecti...

[Publication] Föderalismus als Konfliktregelung. Indien, Russland, Spanien und Nigeria im Vergleich

• Föderalismus als Konfliktregelung. Indien, Russland, Spanien und Nigeria im Vergleich

[Event] ECOWAS Convention \ 10th Anniversary Technical Review Meeting in Niamey, Niger

• Friday, 27 September 2019: ECOWAS Convention \ 10th Anniversary Technical Review Meeting in Niamey, Niger

[Event] Regional Training on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) in Nigeria

• The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with technical support from the Multinational Small Arms and Ammunition Group (MSAG), and BICC conducted the third training of a multi-phase PSSM course for the ECOWAS region from 12 to 22 November 2019.
• Friday, 22 November 2019: Regional Training on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) in Nigeria