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[Press] Obituary Elke Grawert (13 November 1958 - 5 March 2021)

• On 5 March, after a short and severe illness, our much-appreciated colleague Elke Grawert passed away at the age of 62. She was taken from us much too early.
• Wednesday, 10 March 2021: Elke, born in Bremen in 1958, studied Political Science in Münster and Hamburg. Elke completed her doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences in Bremen in 1995 on "Making a Living in Rural Sudan. Food Production of Women, Labour Migration of Men, and Policies of Peasants' Need". In 2006, she habilitated with a thesis on "Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism. Analysis of System Change with a Focus on Tanzania" in Political Science—also in Bremen. Elke came to BICC in...

[Staff] Ada Hakobyan

• Technical Advisor
• Ada obtained her Master of Arts in Intercultural Communication and European Studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany. During her studies, she specialized in methods of conflict analysis and transformation. Ada did her Bachelor of Arts in Armenia and the United States. Before joining BiCC, Ada worked for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zussammenarbeit (GIZ) as peace advisor, mainstreaming conflict-sensitive approaches in program planning and monitoring. From 2...

[PDF Document] brief43.pdf   (4.63 MB)

[Project] Resource conflict monitor

• On 12 March 2008, BICC presented a new English language data base service, the Resource Conflict Monitor (RCM). With the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BICC experts have been able to develop a data base on 90 resource-rich countries, which over the past eleven years gives an insight into the effects of resource governance on the relationship between natural resources and violent conflict.

[Project] Global Militarization Index (GMI)

• The Global Militarization Index (GMI) not only depicts levels of global militarization but also documents the development since 1990. The GMI is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This year’s GMI shows, once more, that the Middle East is the highest militarized region in the world.

[Project] Conversion in NRW

• The closure of Belgian, British and US military bases and base closures in the context of the transformation process within the Bundeswehr continue to pose tremendous challenges for local authorities and governments of federal states in Germany. How does the civilian use of former military real estate fit into overall planning and structural concepts? Together with NRW.URBAN, BICC is supporting the government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in finding answers to this question. One important elem...

[PDF Document] booklet_kirchentag.pdf   (298.82 KB)

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[Project] African migrant organizations (MO) in North Rhine-Westphalia – Forms of organization and activities

• In 2010, BICC carried out a study on “Migration—Integration—Development. African migrant organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia” on behalf of the Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung Nordrhein-Westfalen (SUE), the government of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). BICC-brief 44 (in German) helps to provide an insight into the organizational forms and purposes of African migrant organizations, their potential in the fields of develo...

[Project] (Re)migration in Central Asia and implications for regime stability in three Central Asian countries

• Since independence of the Central Asian states in the aftermath of the end of the of the USSR, their economic situation has markedly deteriorated. As a result, labor migration from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Russia and Kazakhstan has significantly increased during the past two decades. This trend continues notwithstanding the cuts caused by the global economic crisis. Financed by the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation, BICC is conducting a pilot study which investigates mid- and long-term eff...