Staff

Dr Lamis Saleh

Dr Lamis Saleh

Senior Researcher


contact by phone

+492289119641

contact by e-mail

lamis.saleh(at)bicc.de

Expertise

Research Profile


In 2021, Lamis joined BICC as a Senior Researcher in the project titled “Supporting Small Arms and Light Weapons Control in Africa”. Since joining BICC, Lamis has conducted field surveys on conflict, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, and disarmament in Kenya. Her research focuses on the dynamics of conflict and the demand of SALWs. 

Research Topics / Key Expertise


Conflict Studies  

Small Arms and Light Weapons  

Violence and Behavior  

Refugee and Migration Studies  

Experimental Economics 

Countries Of Expertise


  • Kenya,
  • Jordan,
  • Lebanon,
  • Egypt

Professional Career

Prior to joining bicc, Lamis worked as a consultant Senior Economic Researcher for the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in Cairo, Egypt. Previously, she worked from 2017 to 2020 as a research assistant at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE), University of Hamburg in the project titled “Violence, Flight and Socio-Economic Behavior: A Field Study among Syrian refugees in three Asylum Countries (Germany, Jordan and Egypt)”. Within her role in the project, Lamis conducted numerous lab and field experiments with more than 1400 Syrian refugees in the three countries mentioned -one was in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan- as well as other experiments in Tunisia and Lebanon.

In 2015 and 2016, Lamis worked as a registration associate at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Africa operations in Cairo, Egypt.

Important Publications

Journal Article

El-Bialy, N., & Aranda, E., & Nicklisch, A., & Saleh, L., & Voigt, S.

To cooperate or not to cooperate? An analysis of cooperation and peer punishment among Syrian refugees, Germans, and Jordanians

(2022)

Open
Journal Article

El-Bialy, N., & Aranda, E., & Nicklisch, A., & Saleh, L., & Voigt, S.

Flight and the Preferences for Truth-Telling: an Experimental Study Among Refugees and Non-refugees in Syria, Jordan and Germany

(2021)

Open
Journal article

El-Bialy, N., & Aranda, E., & Nicklisch, A., & Saleh, L., & Voigt, S.

A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan

(2021)

Open

Publications

Other publications

Wilshusen, F., & Saleh, L.

Gender-Balance, Militarisierung und Gewalt gegen Frauen: Wir benötigen dringend mehr Daten und Forschung!

, 17 Ziele Blog (2023)

Open
Other publications

Wilshusen, F., & Saleh, L.

Militarisierung und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt. Wir haben ein (Daten-) Problem!

(2023)

Open

Other publications

Wilshusen, F., & Saleh, L.

Gender-Balance, Militarisierung und Gewalt gegen Frauen: Wir haben ein (Daten-)Problem!

BICC , Bonn (2022)

Open
Journal Article

El-Bialy, N., & Aranda, E., & Nicklisch, A., & Saleh, L., & Voigt, S.

To cooperate or not to cooperate? An analysis of cooperation and peer punishment among Syrian refugees, Germans, and Jordanians

(2022)

Open

Journal Article

El-Bialy, N., & Aranda, E., & Nicklisch, A., & Saleh, L., & Voigt, S.

Flight and the Preferences for Truth-Telling: an Experimental Study Among Refugees and Non-refugees in Syria, Jordan and Germany

(2021)

Open
Journal article

El-Bialy, N., & Aranda, E., & Nicklisch, A., & Saleh, L., & Voigt, S.

A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan

(2021)

Open