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SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS CONTROL IN THE WESTERN BALKANS LESSONS FROM THE HALO TRUSTS PROJECT IN BOSNIAHERZEGOVINA REPORT PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DR ANDREAS HEINEMANNGRÜDER OF THE BONN INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONVERSION BONNGERMANY JANUARY 2021 ANDREAS HEINEMANNGRÜDER BICC CONTENTS THE PURPOSE LESSONS LEARNED 3 THE PROBLEM 4 HALOS CONTRIBUTION TO MARKING AND REGISTRATION IN BIH 6 SCOPE OF SALW MARKING AND REGISTRATION AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT 9 HALOS FUTURE ENGAGEMENT WITH BIH...

The Scarcity of Land in Somalia Natural Resources and their Role in the Somali Conflict Occasional Paper April 2009 Occasional Paper III The Scarcity of Land in Somalia Natural Resources and their Role in the Somali Conflict Dustin Dehérez Director of NortheastAfrican Studies Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy DIAS April 2009 The responsibility for contents and views expressed in this Occasional Paper lies entirely with the author INTERNATIONALES KONVERSIONSZENTRUM BONN BO...

14 July 2020 More information SUSANNE HEINKE Head of Public Relations Leiterin Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 49 228 911 9644 prbiccde Commentary The Libyan Civil War Shining a Spotlight on a Problematic Arms Export Policy The German government frequently stresses that it pursues a restrictive arms export policy And yet some of the biggest customers of German arms manufacturers are countries in the Middle East MENA region in particular In their comments Simone Wisotzki HSFK and Max Mutschl...

14 December 2022 More information SUSANNE HEINKE Chief Officer Public Relations Leiterin der Stabsstelle Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 49 0228 911 9644 prbiccde Commentary Why the Future German Arms Export Control Act is Going in the Right DirectionBut Not Far Enough On 13 October 2022 the German Ministry for Economics and Climate published draft key points for a future German Arms Export Control Act referred to hereafter as the draft Establishing such a law is one goal that the governmen...

No 22 bulletin BICC and the Changing Political Arena 1 January 2002 place But most of them are dictated by the US agenda which does not allow much scope for the emancipation of the Middle East There is little indication that humility is substituting the language of power Dramatic events do open windows of opportunity however What are the implications for the conversion disarmament agenda and what does it mean for BICC Here are a few points for consideration by Sverre Lodgaard B ICC is a p...

No 33 bulletin Improving the Human Being When nano bio and information technology and cognitive science join forces by Jürgen Altmann October 2004 understanding of the biochemistry and mechanics in cells and leads to new molecules that can be used to build smaller and even more capable computers The 2001 workshop listed 20 visions to be attained in the next 1020 years among which are fast broadband human braintomachine interfaces verybody is aware of advances in computers both for civilian ...

No 34 bulletin January 2005 armed intervention in Iraq in 2003 shattered the hopes A limited alliance of states claiming that it was enforcing past resolutions of the Council but acting against the express will of the majority of the Security Council invaded Iraq to eliminate weapons of mass destructionwhich proved not to exist It is worth by Dr Hans Blix noting that the grave disagreements on Iraq between he security system laid down by the victor nations great powers were not about territor...

New BICC Publications BICC Focus 8 BICC Fatal Transactions 2008 Conflict diamonds and peace process in Côte dIvoire June Diamants de conflit et processus de paix en Côte dIvoire Juin httpwwwbiccdepublicationsfocus8ivorycoast contentphp httpwwwbiccdepublicationsfocus8ivorycoast contentfphp BICC Focus 7 Peter J Croll Andreas Lebzien and WolfChristian Paes 2008 Yellow Imperialism or successful wealth creation formulaHow the trade in natural resources is changing ChineseAfrican relations June httpw...

No 49 bulletin Facilitating Peace and Development By Peter J Croll and Susanne Heinke B ICC Bonn International Center for Conversion will be 15 years old in 2009 It was founded in 1994 on the initiative of the Land of North RhineWestphalia NRW Its spiritual fathers include the then UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan and Johannes Rau who later became German Federal President 2009 also marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the official end of the Cold War The idea to est...

No 56 bulletin The revolutionary awakening in the Arab world A nyone predicting the revolutionary awakenings in the Arab world six months ago would not have been taken seriously In retrospect it seems that the time was ripe There was enough social dynamite repressive autocrats who had been in power for decades were neither capable of nor willing to modernize their countries A young population had access to information that another kind of life was possible but despite being well educated had...