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Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
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| Web Site |
http://www.bicc.de |
| Phone |
+49-228-91196-0 or
+49-228-91196-41 |
| Fax |
+49-228-241215 |
| Address |
Bonn International Center for
Conversion (BICC)
An der Elisabethkirche 25
53113 Bonn
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| Areas of Expertise |
- Defense Budgets: Analysis of the means and methods of
reallocating financial resources from the military sector to non-military purposes.
- Research and Development: Reorientation of military
R&D capabilities and utilization of this knowledge and creativity for non-military
purposes.
- Defense Industry: Opportunities for and barriers to
conversion of the arms industry, assistance in down-sizing overcapacities and reducing
dependence on arms production
- Demobilization and Reintegration: Programs for the
demobilization of military personnel and civilian personnel employed by the armed forces
and their reintegration into non-military employment.
- Base Closures: Programs that promote the efficient closure
and successful civil redevelopment of the world's excess military facilities
- Surplus Weapons: Alternative use, disposal or scrapping of
surplus weaponry with the purpose of avoiding indiscriminate exports
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| Recent Reports |
- B-I-C-C (eds). Conversion Survey 1998: Global
Disarmament, Defense Industry Consolidation and Conversion, Oxford University Press,
UK, June 1998
- Jörn Brömmelhörster and John Frankenstein (eds.), Mixed
Motives, Uncertain Outcomes - Defense Conversion in China. Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO,
February 1997
- Kiflemariam Gebrewold (ed). Converting Defense
Resources to Human Development, BICC report 12, October 1998
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| Major Current
Activities |
We are setting up an
internet-based news service which will discuss military budgets. This new service will be
called "MILEX news tracker". The news tracker will select stories from news
agencies that deal with military budget issues. As well, a group of experts will comment
on these news reports in terms of how accurate their definitions of military expenditures
are. For example, a news story is produced by AP on the 1999 military budget in Uganda,
and an expert will be called upon to highlight what the budget does and does not include
according to international definitions of military expenditures. Through this process, we
hope to accomplish three main goals:
- to make global military expenditures more transparent,
and,
- to produce more accurate data, and,
- by publishing such data on the Internet, to help make data
on military expenditures more available even in countries where military expenditures are
not openly discussed.
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