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[Page] Breaking Patterns of Armed Violence (PAVE)

[Page] Breaking Patterns of Armed Violence (PAVE)

[Page] Breaking Patterns of Armed Violence (PAVE)

[Page] Breaking Patterns of Armed Violence (PAVE)

[Page] Breaking Patterns of Armed Violence (PAVE)

[Project] Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

• This project allows BICC to continue capacity development activities for the African Union as well as for select focus states in the Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan) and in the Horn of Africa (Uganda, Somalia, Djibouti). It will complement activities implemented in the framework of its West African ‘sister’ project (Nigeria and Mali), as well as other BICC project activities on security sector reform (SSR)/disarmament demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in South Sudan.BICC has support...

[Project] 9th International South Sudan and Sudan Studies Conference

• The International Sudan Studies Conference, a regular academic exchange opportunity provided by the Sudan Studies Association USA and the Sudan Studies Society UK, has been convened at changing venues every three years for nearly three decades. In 2012, Bonn was chosen as the venue, and it was the first time that this conference took place in Germany, organized by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). To bring together scholars from South Sudan and Sudan for the first time after t...

[Event] Virtual meeting on the concept development for a West African Regional Work Plan for practical small arms control

• On 20 May 2020, ECOWAS and BICC co-chaired a virtual meeting of West African experts on small arms control, representatives of the ECOWAS Small Arms Division, and BICC contributors.
• This meeting convened regional experts to contribute to the development of a concept document for a regional work plan for practical arms control. The meeting was conducted in seven countries over four time zones. Funded by the German government, this meeting was part of BICC’s ongoing engagement to support ECOWAS within its current “Small arms&nbs...

[Project] Capacity development and advice on SALW control in Africa

• This project continues the work undertaken in two previous projects: Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM), capacity development and technical advice in West AfricaPhysical security and stockpile management (PSSM), capacity development and technical advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The project’s focus lies on supporting national and regional bodies in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and West Africa in the field of small arms and light weapons control (SALW) and physical secu...

[Publication] Forging Two Nations Insights on Sudan and South Sudan

One nation becoming two- looking into an arduous process ridden with violence, and sketching out the struggles with the legacies of an already troubled history, are the motivations for this publication on the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan. The governments and societies of the two countries are facing challenges of internal disunity and deepening social and economic cleavages. Armed fighting for inclusion in positions of power, for access to resources and economic development,...