Dr Birgit Kemmerling
Senior Researcher
showBonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
We support efforts to reduce violence and end armed conflict. We do this through conducting forward-looking empirical research, creating safe spaces for dialogue, and providing advice.
Publications
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Policy Brief: Learning from Germany's Civil Engagement in Afghanistan
Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) , Bonn (2024)
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Report
Vorurteilsmotivierte Gewaltkriminalität im Kontext von Fluchtzuwanderung und rechtspolitischer Mobilisierung: Nordrhein-Westfalen 2012–2019
CoRE NRW (2024)
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Events
Tuesday, 11th June, 2024
IN-PERSON
A World Without a Compass
Wednesday, 5th June, 2024
Online
Brown Bag Lecture: Book Talk on Research Methods in Deportation: The Power-Knowledge Approach
Monday, 29th April, 2024
Online
Unlocking Reintegration: Insights from Recent Research Across Stakeholder
Monday, 15th April, 2024
Hybrid
International Engagement in Highly Fragile and Violent Contexts: How can we learn better?
Tuesday, 30th April, 2024
Online
Brown Bag Lecture \ Policies for the Reintegration of Returned Fighters—The Case of North Macedonia
Thursday, 23rd May, 2024
IN-PERSON
Local Roads, Global Belts
Monday, 27th May, 2024
IN-PERSON
Laying the Ground for Peace: A Holistic Approach to Community Violence Reduction
Monday, 16th September, 2024
Hybrid
5th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies
Thursday, 14th March, 2024
IN-PERSON
3. Roundtable Forced Migration Studies on "What moves Bonn? Exploring our City in the Context of (Forced) Migration”
Thursday, 7th March, 2024
Hybrid
Climate change as a driver of forced displacment
Thursday, 22nd February, 2024
IN-PERSON
German Return Policy and the German Deportation Regime
Monday, 5th February, 2024
Online
Joint Webinar: Reconsidering EU's Partnership and Cooperation Models on Return and Readmission
Wednesday, 14th February, 2024
Online
Superwahljahr 2024: Election Upset in Pakistan
Thursday, 25th January, 2024
Hybrid
REMIG Training \ Stress- and Trauma Sensitivity in Research
Monday, 18th December, 2023
Hybrid
Brown Bag Lecture: Conflict-induced Displacement and Translocal Coping Strategies Among Internally Displaced Persons in Urban Ethiopia
Thursday, 14th December, 2023
Hybrid
"Return and Belonging after Conflict-induced Displacement"
Tuesday, 12th December, 2023
IN-PERSON
Presentation of the Arms Export Report 2023 at Joint Conference Church and Development (GKKE)
Wednesday, 13th December, 2023
IN-PERSON
BICC Annual Conference 2023
Our Experts
In the Media
Peace Report 2024 | German Federal Press Conference | 10 June 2024
Presentation of the 2024 Peace Report at the German Federal Press Conference, Phoenix, 10 June 2024 (in German)
Peace Report: There Were More Violent Conflicts in 2023 Than Ever Before
Article on the launch of the 2024 Peace Report: A Rudderless World, tageschau, 10 June 2024 (in German)
Peace Report: Researchers: The World Is Without a Compass
Article on the launch of the 2024 Peace Report: A Rudderless World, zdf heute, 10 June 2024 (in German)
Peace Report 2024: Negative Record of Violent Conflicts
Article on the launch of the 2024 Peace Report: A Rudderless World, MIGAZIN, 10 June 2024 (in German)
Arms Trade: What the German Government can do Even Without an Arms Exports Control Act
Article by Markus Bayer, Max Mutschler and Paul Rohleder, Table, 3 June 2024 (in German)
Israel is Increasingly Becoming a Pariah State in the Region
Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, Die Presse, 31 May 2024 (in German)
When Terrorists are Increasingly Seen as Heroes
Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 30 May 2024 (in German)
Experts: EU asylum reform jeopardises child welfare and human rights
Article on the presentation of the Report Globale Flucht 2024, BR 24, 27 May 2024 (in German)
The risks contained in the European asylum reform
Article with quotes by Benjamin Etzold, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27 May 2024 (in German)
Floods in Afghanistan: Long-term aid urgently needed
Article with quotes by Katja Mielke, DW, 16 May 2024 (in German)
Russia and the NATO
Radio feature with quotes from Markus Bayer, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 09 May 2024 (in German)
One day of ceasefire in Gaza for each hostage
Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, schwäbische, 30 April 2024 (in German)
What's behind Turkey and Iraq's 'Development Road' project?
Article with quotes by Osman Bahadir Dincer, The New Arab, 30 April 2024
Sipri Study: Germany is becoming Europe's Armaments Giant—and Dictatorships are Profiting from it
Article with quotes by Max Mutschler, Berliner Zeitung, 23 April 2024 (in German)
Rights Lawyers go to Court to Stop German Arms Deliveries to Israel
Article with quotes by Max Mutschler, Reuters, 5 April 2024
How to fortify society: New armament
Radio Feature with quotes by Marc von Boemcken, SWR 2, 3 April 2024 (in German)