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  • Summer BrownSummer Brown is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in The Hague Her research focuses on how national nongovernmental organisations in South Sudan engage with international agendas and approaches including the humanitariandevelopmentpeace HDP nexus and localisation She is also a senior level consultant who has more than 25 years of experience advising and supporting organisations to develop and evaluate their policies ...

• [Project] Support for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in South Sudan (capacity-building component)

  • South Sudan, the world’s youngest state, is facing enormous challenges following its official foundation on 9 July 2011. The military and security sector currently accounts for more than half of the state’s expenditure, leaving little money for development projects. The South Sudanese government has recognized this problem and has declared the long-term reduction of the defense budget one of its major development goals. The program for the disarmament, demobilization an...
  • Support for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in South Sudan (capacity-building component)

• [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...
  • Identity, Economy, Power Relations and External Interests: Old and New Challenges for Sudan and South Sudan"

• [Project] Support and capacity-building in stockpile management of SALW, ammunition and surplus weapons in the Republic of South Sudan

  • South Sudan became a sovereign state last year. Recent months have shown just how fragile progress towards development and peace actually is. The high proliferation of small arms and light weapons is also a problematic legacy of the former civil war. BICC is conducting a project financed by the German Foreign Office to support the Bureau for Community Security and Small Arms Control (CSSAC) at the South Sudan Ministry of the Interior. The aim is to help improve the stor...
  • Support and capacity-building in stockpile management of SALW, ammunition and surplus weapons in the Republic of South Sudan

• [Project] Training in small arms control in South Sudan

  • Sudan has suffered from conflict and war for more than 50 years. In January 2005, a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed, formally putting to an end the civil war between the North (Government of Sudan-GOS) and the South (Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement-SPLA/M). While the CPA aims at establishing peace and stability in Sudan, the security situation in the South remains fragile. One reason is the presence of small arms and light weapons (SALW) which are widespread in the region....
  • Training in small arms control in South Sudan

• [Project] Socio-economic repercussions of Chinese oil investments in South Sudan

  • The BICC research project “Socio-economic repercussions of Chinese oil investments in South Sudan”, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ), analyzes the consequences of oil production at the local level in Melut County, Upper Nile State. During a four-week field research, two BICC researchers studied the community development projects of the oil consortium Petrodar Operational Company PDOC—of which Chinese and Malaysian parastat...
  • Socio-economic repercussions of Chinese oil investments in South Sudan

• [Event] National PSSM training in East Africa in Juba, South Sudan

  • In close cooperation with the National Focal Point for SALW control, the Bureau for Community Security and Small Arms Control (BCSSAC), RECSA and BICC conducted a five-day national PSSM training in Juba for members of the South Sudanese national authorities and security forces.
  • Friday, 13 December 2019: In close cooperation with the National Focal Point for SALW control, the Bureau for Community Security and Small Arms Control (BCSSAC), RECSA and BICC conducted a five-day national PSSM training in Juba for members of the South Sudanese national authorities and security forces.

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

  • 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...

• [Project] Capacity-building on SALW control and DD&R in Southern Sudan

  • From August 2007 to March 2008, BICC implemented a capacity-building project on small arms control and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DD&R) in Southern Sudan. Working with local partners, members of civil society and the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), BICC delivered four workshops on various aspects of small arms and light weapons (SALW) control and another four training courses on DD&R. In addition, BICC worked with local media and outreach groups to raise awarenes...

• [Event] Local Perspectives on the HDP Nexus – Insights from Mali, Iraq, and South Sudan

  • Dissemination Workshop (online)
  • Tuesday, 18 March 2025: On Tuesday, 18 March 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00, the online dissemination workshop "Local Perspectives on the HDP Nexus – Insights from Mali, Iraq, and South Sudan" will present findings from the three-year research project "How can the HDP Nexus Succeed? NGOs Between Humanitarian Aid, Development Assistance and Peacebuilding." This public event will be held in English with translation into French and Arabic.