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No 6 bulletin Economic Recovery as a Prerequisite for Conversion by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki The end of the Cold War left the countries of eastern Europe with a surplus capacity for arms production This makes the conversion of defenserelated resources for civilian use a necessitynot a luxury Since the reallocation of resources requires a longterm strategy the key to success is foremost economic recovery and sustained growth Without this it is at best difficult to reallocate resources from one se...

No 10 bulletin Base Redevelopment A Challenge for regional Structural Policy in the 1990s 1 January 1999 Many communities in the State of North RhineWestphalia have taken on the task of conversion with enthusiasm The state government has provided support by expanding regional development programs and by making roughly DM 500 million available for conversionrelated activities As a result of the decades of experience with the cleanup and reuse of former by Michael Deitmer industrial sites in p...

No 11 bulletin At Long Last Action to Address the Plague of Small Arms and Light Weapons 1 April 1999 its civil wars in the 1990s only to find that hundreds of thousands of military weapons remained in circulation for use by the enemies of human security and development In West Africa Mali has led a coalition of states to declare a moratorium on the export import and manufacture of small arms and light weapons by Edward J Laurance These international actions have begun to provide In the past...

Int No 15 bulletin Arms Control and DisarmamentCrisis and Change ern New a e Em t htt ddres s p ail b ww es icc w b bicc icc d e de 1 April 2000 agreement on BMD this will be cause for concern to China At the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva talks on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for weapons have run aground due to disagreement on the militarization of outer space and other issues by Patricia Lewis Nor do things augur well for the review conference on the Nuclear...

No 21 bulletin Renewed Demobilization in Eritrea by Amanuel Mehreteab U nfortunately the peace which followed three decades of civil war over Eritrean independence only lasted seven years War broke out between independent Eritrea and Ethiopia in May 1998 triggered by a border dispute Eritrea embarked upon a rapid and massive process of rearmament and remobilization By mid2000 Eritrea had an estimated 300000 people under armsmore than at any one time during the liberation struggle The battles...

No 26 bulletin Old and New Wars 1 January 2003 of high asset inequality discriminatory public spending and unequal access to the benefits of state patronage such as government jobs Furthermore state failure in by S Mansoob Murshed providing security and a minimum level of public goods often force individuals to rely on kinship ties for support e are used to viewing war as something that and security Ethnicity however must be treated with happens between states Contemporary wars caution Indee...

No 32 bulletin July 2004 expansion will build on the existing capabilities of BICC and continue to focus on conversionin a broad understanding of the term by Michael Brzoska and Peter J Croll Following the recommendation of the abovet its meeting on 24 May 2004 BICCs Supervisory mentioned evaluation committee this broad Board adopted a new Work Program for BICC understanding sees conversion as a special form of for the fiveyearperiod 20042008 With this Work transformation It focuses on issues...

bulletin No 39 JulyAugust 2006 Human Security Incoherent Concept or Policy Template by Prof Ramesh Thakur T he massive earthquake and devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004 was a vivid illustration of the advantages of conceptualising security within the inclusive framework of human security The natural disaster caused catastrophic loss of life in many countries around the perimeter of the Indian Ocean including thousands of Westerners vacationing in the pleasure resorts The comment of Walt...

bulletin No 62 JanuaryMarch 2013 German Arms Exports Strengthening instead of interference By Dr Marc von Boemcken and Jan Grebe W hen German Minister of Defense Thomas de Maizière coined the formula strengthening instead of interference he understood this as the supply of third countries with arms even if they are situated in regions of tension and crisis At the same time Minister de Maizière speaks of a broadening of markets and sales opportunities for weapon systems and technology He lite...

29 September 2015 Commentary Military barracks for profit A critical reflection on conversion in Italy More information Dr Andrea Licata political scientist from Italy and Associate Researcher of BICC SUSANNE HEINKE Head of Public Relations Leiterin Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 49 228 911 9644 Fax 22 prbiccde comments on the Italian politics of base conversion His criticism of only state budget driven approaches to bases closures is that they disregard the potential of former military ...