- 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...
- FooCo - Food Security and Conflict Dynamics in northern Kenya
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...
- 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...
- I-WALAMAR Sustainable Transformations in rural Morocco
The Moroccan agriculture is in transformation and is experiencing intensification and commercialization, which, in addition to social and economic...
- 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...
- TelePAtH - Food security in West Africa
The overall aim of TelePAtH is to identify, measure, and characterize the feedback loops in Social Ecological coupled Systems (SES), the drivers and...
- 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...
- Conflict-sensitive Employment under Construction: Peace and Stability Strategies for the Private Sector in Afghanistan
This cooperative research project between The Liaison Office TLO in Kabul, Afghanistan and International Alert in Islamabad, Pakistan and London is...
- Development of social requirements for concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in the MENA region
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...
- 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...
- Socio-economic repercussions of Chinese oil investments in South Sudan
The BICC research project “Socio-economic repercussions of Chinese oil investments in South Sudan”, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for...
- Artisanal miners in developing countries
The economic and financial crisis has boosted the demand for gold. High gold prices are encouraging hundreds of thousands of small-scale miners...
- 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...
- Consultancy on regional resource governance in Sierra Leone and neighboring states
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...
- Digging for Peace: Private companies and emerging economies in zones of conflict. International Fatal Transactions conference 2008
BICC in association with the European Fatal Transactions network , held the international conference “Digging for Peace: Private companies and e...
- 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...
- 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...
- Resources for a Fairer World—Photo Exhibition
“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...
- Transportation infrastructure in Germany and its relevance to security technologies and employment
The Hans-Böckler-Foundation commissioned BICC to design a study on “Innovations to protect German airports against attacks: Security technologies and ...
- 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...
- Transboundary water management and crisis prevention
How can the different interests of riparian states in international waters be taken into account or balanced? Can such settlements perhaps even act...
