Staff
Claudia Breitung
Technical Advisor & Senior Researcher
bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
Claudia Breitung
Technical Advisor & Senior Researcher
Contact by phone
+49 228 91196-67
Biography
Since 2011 Dr. Claudia Breitung has worked for bicc in various capacities (technical advisor, project manager, senior researcher) with a focus on the organisation of armed actors, pathways in and out of armed groups as well as weapons and ammunition management (WAM) processes. Since 2018 she has supported the UN Interagency Working Group on Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (IAWG-DDR) in the revision, operationalisation and dissemination of the Integrated DDR Standards (IDDRS). Currently, she is conducting research on regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel region. Before joining bicc, she was a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. For the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) she conducted research on development cooperation in post-conflict situations. Her doctoral thesis focused on organisational behaviour of humanitarian agencies in their interaction with rebel groups.
Research profile
Claudia has more than 15 years of experience, as a practitioner, trainer and researcher, in the field of conflict analysis and transformation mostly on the African continent. Her work focuses on the trajectories of individuals moving in and out of armed groups. Her research interests include the organisation of non-state armed actors, pathways out of armed conflict, economies of violence and small arms and light weapons control.
- Analysis of non-state armed groups
- Trajectories in and out of armed groups
- Weapons and ammunition management/Small arms and light weapons control
- Reintegration processes of individuals transiting into civilian life
- Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Processes (DDR)
- United Nations peace and stabilisation operations
- Economies of violence
- Armed violence reduction/conflict transformation
Project involvement
Past projects
- Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in West Africa
- Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa
- Policy and technical advice in the field of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR)/security sector transformation (SST) in South Sudan
- Support to the Revision and Dissemination of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Standards
- Support to the Research and Knowledge Transfer Office Security Sector Reform (SSR Hub) of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg
- Armed Groups in the Sahel
From Osiris Portfolio