The Peace Report 2023 “Peace Is a Long Way Off” (in German) shows that besides the war in Ukraine, the number of violent conflicts, mostly involving non-state armed actors, is increasing worldwide. The Russian Wagner Group is not only active in the war between Russia and Ukraine but also in the Sahel, undermining international peace missions. The peace research institutes, therefore, call for the group to be designated as a criminal organisation and sanctioned. Other key themes of the 2023 Peace Report include the strengthening of arms control measures, the credible implementation of a feminist foreign and security policy in concrete situations, measures to mitigate crises in the Global South, particularly those caused by climate change, and the mitigation of social polarisation. The full press release is available here (pdf, in German) You can download the entire Peace Report as a PDF here. The recommendations of the German peace and conflict research institutes to the German government can be found here An overview of the editors of the Peace Report can be found here (pdf, in German) The Peace Report The Peace Report is the annual publication by the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC), the Leibniz Institute Peace Research Institute Frankfurt …read more Source:: Bonn International Center for...
The essay of the Annual Report 2022 by BICC researcher Dr. Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek is entitled “Humanitarian Emergency and European Migration Policies: What can we Learn from the War in Ukraine?” . So, BICC’s Annual Report 2022 shows, among other things, how researchers investigate forced displacement and refugee movements in Africa, Asia and the European Union on this basis or look at the nexus between humanitarian aid, development cooperation and peacebuilding. An important part of BICC’s Annual Report 2022 is the topic of “Dynamics of Violent Conflict”. Researchers advise the United Nations on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of violent actors. Based on field research, they analyse conflict dynamics in Donbas and other (post-Soviet) de facto regimes, in Afghanistan and Mali. “Even a state like North Rhine-Westphalia is not immune to violent Islamist or right-wing extremist actors,” explains Conrad Schetter. This is why the Annual Report presents the coordination unit for the research network CoRE-NRW (Connecting Research on Extremism in North Rhine-Westphalia) at BICC, which is supported by the NRW Ministry of Culture and Science. The 2022 Annual Report also addresses BICC’s cooperation with the African Union and other regional organisations to improve small arms control on the continent. “BICC is proud …read more Source:: Bonn International Center for...
The disputes in and around Ukraine can be found in the daily headlines. The conflict’s effects can also be felt in Germany. But it is difficult to get a clear picture of where exactly the interests of the different parties lie. The political context is one side of the medal; the question about the situation of the people in Ukraine is the...
