Search

[Page] Peacebits

• Lessons for Regional Stability in the Lake Chad Basin21 August 2025Abi Watson Taiwo Adebayo with Milena Berks and Steve AmudaAs part of our projectPolitical Tools for Managing Crises in Africa jointly implemented by the Global Public Policy Institute GPPi and theInstitute for Security StudiesISS we have invited two experts to share their insights on the reintegration of former Boko Haram members1and broader transitional justice approaches in the Lake ChadBasinBoko Harams two major factions Isla...

[Page] Peacebits

• Lessons for Regional Stability in the Lake Chad Basin21 August 2025Abi Watson Taiwo Adebayo with Milena Berks and Steve AmudaAs part of our projectPolitical Tools for Managing Crises in Africa jointly implemented by the Global Public Policy Institute GPPi and theInstitute for Security StudiesISS we have invited two experts to share their insights on the reintegration of former Boko Haram members1and broader transitional justice approaches in the Lake ChadBasinBoko Harams two major factions Isla...

[Page] Peacebits

• Lessons for Regional Stability in the Lake Chad Basin21 August 2025Abi Watson Taiwo Adebayo with Milena Berks and Steve AmudaAs part of our projectPolitical Tools for Managing Crises in Africa jointly implemented by the Global Public Policy Institute GPPi and theInstitute for Security StudiesISS we have invited two experts to share their insights on the reintegration of former Boko Haram members1and broader transitional justice approaches in the Lake ChadBasinBoko Harams two major factions Isla...

[PDF Document] How to Stop Jihadi Banditry Becoming New Normal.pdf   (5.28 MB)

[PDF Document] How to Stop Jihadi Banditry Becoming New Normal.pdf   (5.28 MB)

[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...

[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...

[Publication] Demystifying the peace dividend

• By 1998 global military expenditures had been reduced by more than one-third of the amount spent a decade earlier before the Cold War finally ended and when there had been high hopes for a peace dividend. The objective of the book, an edited volume published by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), is to shed more light on the nature of the peace dividend, beyond the expectations it engendered. What does, or did, it comprise in reality? Did peace dividends emerge at all, or have t...

[PDF Document] occasional_paper_V_06_10.pdf   (743.59 KB)