Section: Bonn International Center for Conversion (Germany)
War in Eastern Ukraine Lessons learned so far from the Ukraine conflict
The interpretation of the Ukraine conflict is contested and part of the global competition between autocratic and open societies. Russia claims a special status in international relations, a privileged sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space, it turns towards Asia and away from Europe. “The West”, meanwhile, wants to draw the...
Joint declaration by the State and the universities in North Rhine-Westphalia Solidarity with Ukraine
The NRW Ministry for Culture and Science on 2 March 2022 met with representatives of the universities and other research institutions, of students, university hospitals and student services organisations to discuss the current situation relating to the war of aggression by Russia on Ukraine and its impact on science and research. All participants...
Dossier War in Ukraine
War in Ukraine Why Mariupol is so important for Russia.Belagerte ukrainische Stadt – Warum Mariupol so wichtig ist für Russland. Interview with Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, ZDF (in German) Mariupol before the fall: Assessments by Professor Andreas Heinemann-GrüderMariupol vor dem Fall: Einschätzungen von Prof. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder am...
BICC Annual Report 2019 Research in the field and advisory activities in regions with ever-changing violent conflict settings
In his foreword to BICC Annual Report 2019, Professor Herbert Wulf, founding director of BICC from 1994 to 2001, praises the development of the peace and conflict research institute that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year: “BICC has risen to the new challenges and developed diverse, practice-oriented research and advisory projects”. With...
15th Annual General Meeting of IDDRTG
BICC is currently supporting the revision of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS). The IDDRS was published by the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR (IAWG) in 2006. In the same year, the Integrated DDR Training Group (IDDRTG) was launched to build and strengthen DDR training and education...
New publication Continuation of political conflicts or a new beginning? Turkish refugees in North Rhine-Westphalia
Since the failed coup attempt by parts of the Turkish military against President Erdogan in summer 2016, the Turkish government has suspended more than 100,000 civil servants on the pretext of having planned a coup. For fear of persecution and arbitrary imprisonment, about 21,000 Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in Germany since then....
Commentary Are the German government’s revised Political Principles on the Export of Military Weapons and other Military Equipment really more ‘restrictive’?
The German government regularly describes its arms exports policy as “restrictive” even though it repeatedly approves arms exports to authoritarian regimes and areas of tension. Last week, it published its revised Political Principles for the Export of War Weapons and Other Military Equipment that had not been changed for 19 years. It was the...
Kick-off ceremony Innovation Campus Bonn presented itself
On Tuesday, 25 June 2019, the experts of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research discussed issues of global change and opportunities for sustainable development in a panel discussion and presented the ICB to the public for the first time. State Secretary Annette Storsberg from the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia,...
Open Day of the GFFO in Berlin New BICC photo exhibition ”Safety First”
SALW control is of great importance for peace-building. For the peace and conflict research institute BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion), SALW control is a field of activity central to research and the provision of technical and policy advice. BICC works closely with the German Federal Foreign Office, which finances most of the...
Global Militarization Index 2018 Europe: Trend of an arms build-up in eastern and western countries
In the course of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the violent conflict in eastern Ukraine, relations between NATO and Russia have deteriorated severely. This can also be observed in the GMI 2018. “The pressure exerted by the United States on European NATO countries to increase their military budgets has its first effects”, Max...
