Projects
BICC research projects bring together long-term analysis, field-based evidence, and policy-facing collaboration across peacebuilding, security, and development.
120 projects
Current scope
Research, policy engagement, and field-based collaboration across BICC’s core themes.
Source
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third-party
May 2025 – Jun 2027
Development. Security. Armament. How much Security does Development need?
‘No development without security, no security without development’. This is a recurring mantra in development cooperation. The question is: What kind ...
third-party
Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
Supporting Weapons and Ammuntion Management Coordination in Africa
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Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
Power Relations of Peace - How can HDP Nexus Actors Together Work Towards "Peace"
Understanding peace in the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus, and implementing peace activities, is one of the major challenges for those pro...
third-party
Oct 2024 – Sep 2027
De:Link//Re:Link II: Local perspectives on China's engagement in Afghanistan
Large-scale infrastructure projects promise regional development and prosperity— But is this truly the case? This is a key question asked in the resea...
third-party
Aug 2024 – Jul 2027
<strong>CoRe-NRW - Connecting Research on Extremism in North Rhine-Westphalia (Phase 2)</strong>
coreNRW is a multidisciplinary and multi-professional network. Here, researchers, prevention practitioners, and (security) officials analyse the cu...
third-party
Jul 2024 – Mar 2027
Refugee Advisory Board Germany - Refugees: Equal Partners in Political Decision Making
The Refugee Advisory Board Germany has been established to ensure that international decision-making is informed by the perspective and expertise of f...
third-party
Feb 2024 – Jan 2025
Everyday lives of Rohingya refugee women in the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands
This empirical study aims to better understand the everyday lives of Rohingya women and their responses to pervasive gender-based violence in refugee...
third-party
Feb 2023 – Feb 2026
Return and belonging (RE-MIG) - Notions of return after conflict-induced conflict
Peacebuilding and political actors working on return policies rarely take into account the experiences of people going through a return process. The...
third-party
Jan 2023 – Feb 2026
Decentring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission and Return Policies in Europe and Beyond
GAPs aims to examine the disconnects and discrepancies between expectations of return policies and their actual outcomes by decentring the dominant, o...
third-party
Nov 2022 – Oct 2025
All too often, programmes to assist in the reintegration of ex-combatants take on a national perspective, even when armed actors operate in cros...
third-party
Sep 2022 – Mar 2024
Support to the Research and Knowledge Transfer Office Security Sector Reform (SSR Hub) of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg
Over the past year, bicc has participated in the German government’s SSR-Hub, providing technical expertise on disarmament, demobilisation and r...
third-party
Sep 2022 – Mar 2023
More than two years of drought in the Horn of Africa has resulted in the deaths of over 2.5 million livestock and an acute food crisis that has...
third-party
Apr 2022 – Aug 2023
Multi-dimensional Measurement of Militarization (Pilot project)
It can be argued that militarisation is the defining Zeitgeist of the new 'post-post-Cold War era'. Despite a rich tradition of research, the...
third-party
Nov 2021 – Mar 2025
How can the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus succeed? NGOs between humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and peacebuilding
The HDP (humanitarian–development–peace) nexus is a policy and practice to better link humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and peace- ...
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Apr 2021 – Jun 2024
Research consortium De:link//Re:link – Local Insights and New Knowledges bicc project: China’s New Silk Road Initiative in North Rhine-Westphalia and Pakistan
The Project is a sub-project of DE:LINK//RE:LINK: Local Perspectives on Transregional Processes of (Dis)Entanglement.The research...
third-party
Apr 2021 – Mar 2025
Supporting Small Arms and Light Weapons Control in Africa
This project takes on the current challenges in small arms and light weapons (SALW) control in Africa from the practical to the strategic level. bicc ...
third-party
Oct 2020 – May 2025
On the road to liquid warfare? The consequences of the proliferation of modern military technology on the warfare of autocratic states and non-state armed actors.
The development and proliferation of military technology are significantly changing the way wars are fought—with far-reaching consequences.We do not k...
third-party
Jan 2020 – Dec 2023
This project has examined the sources of survival of de facto regimes. De facto regimes are not frozen conflicts, and wanting to stabilise the status...
third-party
Jan 2020 – Dec 2024
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer
Research on forced migration and refugees is highly relevant in Germany. As its importance has grown, so has the demand for expertise from civil...
third-party
Jul 2019 – Dec 2022
The Moroccan agriculture is in transformation and is experiencing intensification and commercialization, which, in addition to social and economic...
third-party
Jan 2019 – Jul 2024
CoRE-NRW - Connecting Research on Extremism in North Rhine-Westphalia (Phase 1)
The network Connecting Research on Extremism in North Rhine-Westphalia, CoRE for short, was founded in 2016 to promote interdisciplinary exchange...
third-party
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023
Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of dis...
third-party
Dec 2018 – Mar 2022
To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC together with ...
third-party
Oct 2018 – Dec 2022
Standards of performance set a baseline of excellence on complex issues. This is why bicc provided support to the United Nations (UN) over the past...
third-party
Aug 2018 – Mar 2021
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) control and physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) of weapons and ammunition in Africa.
This project continues the work undertaken in two previous projects:Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM), capacity development and...
third-party
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021
AimsThe project aims to develop strategies for action that will strengthen the competences of intermediaries (social workers, teachers, volunteers,...
third-party
Apr 2018 – Dec 2025
Project B03: Violent Futures? Contestations along the frontier
Large-scale infrastructure projects such as the LAPSSET corridor in northern Kenya cut through the pastures of pastoral communities in Kenya and...
third-party
Jun 2017 – May 2018
The overall aim of TelePAtH is to identify, measure, and characterize the feedback loops in Social Ecological coupled Systems (SES), the drivers and...
third-party
Apr 2017 – Mar 2018
The current wars in the Middle East are changing existing social and political orders. In Syria and in Iraq, a number of state-, semi- and non-state...
third-party
Feb 2017 – Jul 2018
This project allows BICC to continue capacity development activities for the African Union as well as for select focus states in the Sahel region...
third-party
Feb 2017 – Jul 2018
third-party
Sep 2016 – Dec 2018
Since 2015, the topics of “forced displacement” and “refugees” have been predominant topics of discussion in German and European politics, in the medi...
third-party
May 2016 – Dec 2019
Collective action of non-state armed groups in the Ukrainian conflict (a comparison of pro-Russian and Ukrainian non-state armed groups)
The rise of non-state armed groups is a common phenomenon, in civil wars, during regime change or as a side effect of inter-state wars. This also...
third-party
Apr 2016 – Dec 2019
North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), with its strong urbanization, cultural variety and openness, is one of the areas in Germany and Europe that attract...
third-party
Apr 2016 – Apr 2017
This project allows BICC to continue its engagement in activities related to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector...
third-party
Mar 2016 – Dec 2016
So-called Islamic State (IS/Da’esh) constitutes a global threat. This can be seen not only in the latest attacks in Europe but also in the expansion o...
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Jul 2015 – Jun 2016
Never before has the Sahel–Maghreb region experienced such a high level of small arms availability. Following the fall of Gaddafi, non-state armed a...
third-party
Jun 2015 – Dec 2015
According to United Nations figures covering the period since 2014, roughly one in four inhabitants of Lebanon is a refugee. Lebanon's...
third-party
May 2015 – Jun 2018
Energy for sustainable development in North Africa and the Middle East
MENA Sustainable ELECtricity TrajectoriesThe countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long been relying on fossil resources to...
third-party
Mar 2015 – Dec 2015
BICC plans to continue working in Mali in 2015, building on experience gained over the course of a short project in 2014 on assessing the state of...
third-party
Mar 2015 – Apr 2025
Germany is one of the world’s largest arms exporters. While weapons can enhance security, they can also cause insecurity and fuel violent conflicts. F...
third-party
Mar 2015 – Feb 2019
The Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are characterised by post-conflict situations, authoritarian forms of government, ethnic...
third-party
Feb 2015 – Dec 2017
This cooperative research project between The Liaison Office TLO in Kabul, Afghanistan and International Alert in Islamabad, Pakistan and London is...
third-party
Jan 2015 – Dec 2018
The majority of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) find themselves displaced for more than five years—either in their own or in n...
third-party
Jan 2015 – Dec 2016
BICC has been a member of the Crossroads Asia research network since the beginning of 2015. This network of seven German universities and research...
third-party
Dec 2014 – Dec 2016
Questions are increasingly being raised about the classic idea of the state’s "monopoly of force" or "monopoly of violence", i.e. ...
third-party
Jun 2014 – Dec 2014
BICC will be hosting a two-day international academic conference on “Challenges of organized violence: New research and potentials for conversion” on ...
third-party
Mar 2014 – Dec 2014
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) is planning a number of activities around the topic of...
third-party
Jan 2014 – Dec 2025
bicc has been involved in the Expert Group on Arms Exports of the Conference Church and Development (GKKE) for many years. Since 2012, a bicc...
third-party
Jan 2014 – Dec 2014
Solar thermal power plants in North Africa have the potential to satisfy the growing demand for energy. But these innovations come at a price—for e...
third-party
Dec 2013 – Dec 2009
Security, armaments and development in recipient countries of German arms exports
The Global Militarization Index (GMI) not only depicts levels of global militarization but also documents the development since 1990. The GMI is...
third-party
Dec 2013 – Dec 2014
The former military dictatorship has undergone a massive transformation following Myanmar’s political opening. Within the framework of the ifa’s res...
third-party
Dec 2013 – Dec 2024
Database on security, armaments and development in recipient countries of German arms exports
The website www.ruestungsexport.info (in German only) offers data and facts on the situation of recipient countries of German arms exports. Not only d...
third-party
Jan 2013 – Dec 2013
On behalf of the German Foreign Office, BICC organized an international conference from 17 to 18 June 2013 in Berlin, entitled “Smart Technology in S...
third-party
Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
Geospatial intelligence in support of EU External Action
G-SEXTANT (service provision of geospatial intelligence in EU External Actions support) is an EU FP7 project, which—within the context of the C...
third-party
Dec 2012 – Dec 2014
What types of small arms and light weapons are there and in which countries? Where are which types of small arms produced? What are the different...
third-party
Dec 2012 – Dec 2012
MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems) are relatively small weapons with potential huge effects. They can be used especially for asymmetrical...
third-party
Nov 2012 – Nov 2013
DITAC (Disaster Training Curriculum) is an EU project to develop a holistic training curriculum for first responders and strategic crisis managers ...
third-party
Nov 2012 – Mar 2015
Since November 2012, BICC is supporting efforts to control the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Sudan and its Western and Southern...
third-party
Oct 2012 – Dec 2012
Identity, Economy, Power Relations and External Interests: Old and New Challenges for Sudan and South Sudan"
The International Sudan Studies Conference, a regular academic exchange opportunity provided by the Sudan Studies Association USA and the Sudan...
third-party
Sep 2012 – Dec 2015
The pilot study sets out to clarify whether economic driving factors have guided the behavior of actors during the 'Arab Spring' and in the...
third-party
Sep 2012 – Dec 2012
"Governance and Social Action in Sudan after the Peace Agreement of January 2005: local, national, and regional dimensions" is a...
third-party
Jan 2012 – Dec 2014
In 2012 BICC developed upon request of the German Federal Foreign Office (aa) and in co-operation with the Bundeswehr Verification Center (zvbw) an...
third-party
Jan 2012 – Dec 2013
The Gemeinsame Konferenz Kirche und Entwicklung (GKKE) has asked BICC to write the annual Arms Exports Report. The Report analyzes and assesses...
third-party
Jan 2012 – Dec 2012
BICC is working within the framework of a training and consultancy project funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) to support the Sudan...
third-party
Oct 2011 – Apr 2013
South Sudan, the world’s youngest state, is facing enormous challenges following its official foundation on 9 July 2011. The military and security s...
third-party
Sep 2011 – Aug 2013
South Sudan became a sovereign state last year. Recent months have shown just how fragile progress towards development and peace actually is. The...
third-party
Feb 2011 – Dec 2012
The economic and financial crisis has boosted the demand for gold. High gold prices are encouraging hundreds of thousands of small-scale miners...
third-party
Feb 2011 – Dec 2012
The BICC research project “Socio-economic repercussions of Chinese oil investments in South Sudan”, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for...
third-party
Feb 2011 – Feb 2013
Systems for Monitoring Illicit Extraction and Transport of Natural Resources for Law Enforcement and Intelligence Applications
The main objective of the SYMIN project is to provide timely information for the Afghan ministry of mines about informal mining activities, covering...
third-party
Jan 2011 – Dec 2011
Rape in war is not a homogeneous phenomenon. There are many reasons why this form of violence is used — against both women and men. BICC was studying ...
third-party
Jan 2011 – Dec 2011
Since independence of the Central Asian states in the aftermath of the end of the of the USSR, their economic situation has markedly deteriorated. As...
third-party
Jan 2011 – Dec 2011
DIASPEACE—Diaspora for Peace: Patterns, trends and potentials of long-distance diaspora involvement in conflict settings. Case studies from the Horn of Africa
The perception of migrants in the European Union has changed considerably in recent years. Increasing attention is now being focused on the complex...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
The development of scenarios and models pertaining to the ecological and socio-economic effects of climate change on particularly affected regions of...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
Cluster event in the framework of the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) “CHANGINGcourse—reclaiming our future”
From 14 to 19 September 2010 the anniversary conference of the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) took place in Bonn. The title of thi...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
From 8 to 12 February 2010, a training course entitled: “The Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations” was organized by BICC (Bonn International Ce...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2018
BICC has developed a modular information portal in association with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) for use in the latter’s online s...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
Reintegration has never been, even at the best of times, an easy task; reintegration during an ongoing conflict presents even further challenges. By...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2016
The closure of Belgian, British and US military bases and base closures in the context of the transformation process within the Bundeswehr continue...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
Commissioned by OECD-PDG this project intended to study the effects of returnee diaspora members on improving governance in fragile and post-conflict...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Feb 2011
How can diamonds be turned into a force for development and peace? Two BICC consultants went to Sierra Leone in December 2010 for the Deutsche...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2018
BICC is cooperating with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) in developing a modular information portal on war and peace for the...
third-party
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
In 2010, BICC carried out a study on “Migration—Integration—Development. African migrant organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia” on behalf of the Sti...
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Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
In cooperation with GRIP (Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité) and the National Commission on Small Arms Control in the DR...
third-party
Jan 2009 – Dec 2011
Cooperation in the ‘Fatal Transactions’ (FT) network, lobby and education work on the topic of resources and conflict
Natural resources, such as oil, gas, timber and minerals, have played an important role in armed conflict in about a dozen wars and armed conflicts...
third-party
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
The objective of this research was to explore the identity, values and attitudes of private security contractors in order to improve our...
third-party
Jan 2009 – Dec 2011
Between 2010 and 2011, BICC researchers examined the private security industries in Timor-Leste, Liberia and Peru. They were particularly interested...
third-party
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
On 4 December 2008, BICC and the Deutsche Welle invited international experts from the United States, Iran, Sweden and Germany to a half-day...
third-party
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
Participation in Fatal Transactions (FT) network, lobby and education work on resources and conflicts – German leader of network
In the framework of the European Fatal Transactions network, a BICC team travelled to Cote d'Ivoire to conduct field research. The focus of the...
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Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
BICC in association with the European Fatal Transactions network , held the international conference “Digging for Peace: Private companies and e...
third-party
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
Participation in Fatal Transactions (FT) network, lobby and education work on resources and conflicts – German leader of network
The EU-funded Fatal Transactions campaign, whose partners include inter alia BICC, NIZA (Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa), Pax Christi...
third-party
Nov 2008 – May 2009
Between November 2008 and May 2009, BICC conducted a project (generously funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and...
third-party
Feb 2008 – Mar 2009
Conference “Migration and Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Security Migration Nexus II”
BICC organized the international conference on “Migration and Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Security‑Migration Nexus II” which took place in...
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Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
A joint project of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, KAIPTC, the ECOWAS Small Arms Unit, the German Development Cooperation...
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Jan 2008 – Dec 2012
“Resources for a Fairer World” was the title of an exhibition project, which BICC had organized in conjunction with Bread for the World, EIRENE, Fat...
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Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
The Hans-Böckler-Foundation commissioned BICC to design a study on “Innovations to protect German airports against attacks: Security technologies and ...
third-party
Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
What role do the security institutions play in the domestic power structure of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan? Do they contribute towards...
third-party
Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
EU external aid for third countries—TRANSTEC consor
More than 100,000 former combatants in the civil war in Liberia have been demobilized. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the lead...
third-party
Jan 2008 – Mar 2008
The Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) organized an international conference entitled “The Security-Migration Nexus: Challenges and O...
third-party
Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
From August 2007 to March 2008, BICC implemented a capacity-building project on small arms control and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration...
third-party
Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
United Nations peace missions grant civil stakeholders and development cooperation instruments a central role in tackling the structural causes of...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
The question of the migration and integration of groups of migrants in Germany is not only the subject of discussion in the media and in public but...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
German companies working in the field of defense technology are at the beginning of a restructuring process, which is the result of reduced budgets...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Research for the BMZ in select topics at the interface between development and security
The United Nations (UN) are involved in a large number of peacebuilding missions. Critics repeatedly ask how civil and military authorities are to...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
BICC's photo exhibition project "Millennium Development Goals 2015 - Acting Globally for Poverty Reduction, Peace and Development" was...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2008
Hindus against Muslims in Gujarat, India; Muslims against Christians in Bauchi, Nigeria; Chechen or Basque separatists against central governments in...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Research for the BMZ in select areas at the nexus between development and security
The "Early Warning - Early Action" project, which was conducted on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Due to its internal conflicts, Colombia is known as one of the most violent places on earth. However, things have started moving since the...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Assessment of the broader aspects of the HALO Trust SALW disposal actions in Afghanistan
BICC was commissioned during 2006 by the German Foreign Office and the Netherlands Foreign Ministry to assess a Weapons and Ammunition Destruction...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
In 2007, a web-based interactive map component was added to the arms export database, which BICC has been using since 2006 to study how 170 countries...
third-party
Jan 2007 – Jun 2008
Research for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in select areas at the nexus between development and security
On 12 March 2008, BICC presented a new English language data base service, the Resource Conflict Monitor (RCM). With the support of the German...
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Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
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Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Consultancy in the field of small arms
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Jan 2006 – Dec 2006
Sudan has suffered from conflict and war for more than 50 years. In January 2005, a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed, formally putting...
third-party
Jan 2006 – Dec 2006
How can the different interests of riparian states in international waters be taken into account or balanced? Can such settlements perhaps even act...
third-party
Jan 2006 – Dec 2003
Development of training materials and further training courses on small arms control (TRESA)
BICC's TRESA project (Training and Education on Small Arms), which was launched in 2003, develops training material on small arms control....
third-party
Jan 2005 – Dec 2005
External economic actors in civil war economies, Sub-Sahara Africa
Since 2003, a research programme at BICC on so-called war economies has aimed to shed light on the specific impact of external economic actors, a...
third-party
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
The Peace Report is the joint annual report of the German peace research institutes BICC - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, the...
third-party
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
Security, armaments and development in recipient countries of German arms exports
With a database accessible at www.bicc.de/ruestungsexport/, BICC examines how 170 countries meet the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports. The database ...
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Jan 1994 – Dec 1999
Base conversion—use of barracks, training grounds, national and international context
The end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of the Allied troops in the early 1990s together with the structural reform of the German Bundeswehr...