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• [Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

  • To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

• [Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

  • To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

• [Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

  • To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

• [Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

  • To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

• [Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

  • To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, engageed in a EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019 and ran until March 2022. TRAFIG introduced a novel perspective on protracted disp...

• [Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

  • To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, engageed in a EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019 and ran until March 2022. TRAFIG introduced a novel perspective on protracted disp...

• [Press] New publication \ Breaking Cycles of Displacement

  • On 28 and 29 November 2018, BICC hosted an international conference entitled “Breaking Cycles of Displacement” in Bonn. BICC Knowledge Note 2\2019, edited by Clara Schmitz-Pranghe and Ruth Vollmer, documents the conference’s outcomes.
  • Friday, 29 March 2019: In the camp Nduta near Kibondo, Tanzania, where those who want to return are waiting for a means of transport back. Photo: BICC\M. Rudolf

• [Publication] Incorporation of defense expenditures into public expenditure work

  • The following short case studies will present and discuss readily available information on deficits in the planning, programming implementation and control of military expenditures in the East- African countries of Ethiopia, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.The case studies are structured as follows: first, general information on the military sector, especially size and meaning of the armed forces and military expenditures, is presented. Second, to the extent that information cou...

• [Press] International research project TRAFIG \ Launch of Website

  • TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations of Displacement) is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 research and innovation project. Recently, the project launched its website (https://trafig.eu/), which informs the public about key insights of its work.
  • Wednesday, 10 April 2019: “TRAFIG aims at generating new knowledge on protracted displacement to develop solutions that are tailored to the needs and capacities of persons affected by displacement”, Benjamin Etzold, the project’s scientific coordinator at BICC, explains. The project looks specifically at how displaced people use transnational and local networks as well as mobility as resources to manage their everyday lives.To do so, from 2019 to 2021, 12 partner organisations will investigate long-lasting displacement s...

• [Publication] Incorporation of defense expenditures into public expenditure work

  • The following short case studies will present and discuss readily available information on deficits in the planning, programming implementation and control of military expenditures in the East- African countries of Ethiopia, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.The case studies are structured as follows: first, general information on the military sector, especially size and meaning of the armed forces and military expenditures, is presented. Second, to the extent that information cou...