bulletin No. 50 July–September 2009

Piracy in and its late 2007, has progressively spread into the Gulf of where larger and wealthier ships are Root Causes on Land in transit. Twenty thousand ships pass through the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia and Michael Ashkenazi and Edward Ceska in the Gulf of Aden annually. As result of pirate activities, insurance rates have rocketed by an ICC’s interest in the piracy problem started order of magnitude (from US $900/day to US $9000/ Bover a year ago, sparked by the relationship day). Consequently, a coalition of navies has been between SALW flows and piracy. The study is attempting, with limited success, to put an end to currently self-fi nanced by BICC, and its fi ndings the pirates’ activities. have been, and are to be published in scholarly Over the past decade, Somali piracy opera- publications on the basis of data collected from tions have grown in scope, daring, range, and public sources. The major thrust of the study is to sophistication. Pirates have expanded their opera- understand what creates and sustains modern tions beyond the coast of Somalia, ranging up to forms of piracy, most importantly (but not only) 400NM (700 km) from the Somali coast. There are in Somalia. recorded cases of the use of larger ‘mother’ ships, For the last twenty years, Somalia has expe- to extend the ranges of the small speedboats used rienced weak governments and an intermittent for actual attacks. The sale of pirated goods has civil war. Warlord, clan, and territorial struggles brought the pirates into contact with brokers and have become the norm. Tensions between clans fi nanciers in the and . Recently in Somalia have resulted in inter-clan warfare and there have been reports of the use of sophisticated in humanitarian and food supply catastrophes. The intelligence and maritime monitoring by pirate recent self-appointed government does not have agents in . suffi cient power to deal with any major problems. Piracy provides attractive financial rewards The semi-autonomous of and (the pirates receive some 10 percent of the gains, have been left to their own devices. captains, boat owners and financiers some 40 The endless fi ghting between clans has exacer- percent), and gives many young Somali men an bated the issue of food scarcity. Resources such escape from the impoverished conditions that have as charcoal, qat (a mildly narcotic, non-addictive caused severe distress throughout the country. leaf chewed by men in the ), livestock, and Estimates of the sums made by Somali pirates in 2008 water are fought over by different clans. range from a low of US $30 to 40 million to a high of Absence of government control off the territorial US $150 million. Given the absence of other sources waters of Somalia has been an open invitation of income in Somalia, even the lower estimate is a for foreign vessels to pillage marine resources. substantial income for individuals and for the local Fishing boats from Spain, India, Thailand, Russia, economy as a whole. This income is spread widely: Korea and other nations have plundered the rich pirates invest in lavish homes, cars, entertainment, marine resources on the Somali continental shelf. and marriage. Other foreign registry ships dump toxic waste into the waters. Dumping toxins in Somali waters costs Conclusion: Solutions and Future Expectations about eight Euros per ton rather than thousands The principal cause for piracy in Somalia has been per ton for proper waste disposal in Europe. the lack of effective governance. The absence Initially, piracy off the Somali coast was only a of proper governance has meant that (a) there is threat in the Mogadishu port area, where trading no effective way of stopping pirates on land; (b) ships and humanitarian aid were looted. Since Somalia’s marine resources are open to plunder

July–September 2009 and degradation by ships from developed nations; Staff Spotlight (c) in the absence of development, piracy is one of the few sources of foreign cash (and thus economic growth) in the country. Lack of development locally also means that potential recruits for piracy are readily available. A number of recommendations arise from our study. Ruth Vollmer 1. The effectiveness of the purely naval response to piracy off Somalia is doubtful. 2. For anti-piracy actions to be effective, they must be matched by efforts to help stabilize the political, economic, and humanitarian uth Vollmer joined BICC in May 2006 as a student situation in the country, though how this is assistant in Transboundary Waters and Crisis to be done in the face of Somali bellicosity R Prevention. Her initial interest in this fi eld of work remains a puzzle. was driven by the recognition of the importance 3. In practice, this means that the anti-piracy of environmental services such as fresh water for coalition must also ensure that the plundering human livelihoods and the wish to learn more of Somalia’s be brought to halt, and the about how they could become an inducement maritime area be kept in trust for the people to cooperation. During the two-and-a-half years of Somalia until its own government can take of working with BICC, her main areas of work over responsibility. changed to encompass the security aspects of 4. In the global view, anti-piracy efforts will human-environment interactions in general. After succeed only if a Somali government completing her studies in linguistics, political science manages to establish a sustainable peace, and psychology at the University of Bonn in the in which development assistance can make Summer of 2008, she returned to BICC as research headway, thus both enhancing the ability to assistant, where she supported the organization track, arrest, and deter pirates on the one of the international conference “Migration and hand, and offer them legal employment and Displacement in Sub-Saharan . The Security- livelihoods on the other. Migration Nexus II”, which took place in February 2009. Currently, she is still working on migration with a focus on the nexus between migration and the environment as well as responses to large-scale migration especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Besides her work at BICC, Ruth has been spokesperson of the local group on asylum of amnesty international for two years and still actively supports the work of Bonn International Center for Conversion this group. Furthermore, she volunteered in different bulletin No. 50 roles for BIMUN/SINUB e.V. (Bonn International BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) is an Model United Nations/ Simulation Internationale independent, non-profi t organization dedicated to des Nations Unies de Bonn) for example through promoting peace and development through applied organizing the conference on Migration, Traffi cking research, advisory services and training. and Proliferation: Cross-border Issues as Aspects This newsletter is published quarterly by of International Security in 2005. Since September © BICC 2008, Ruth holds a part-time position with UNU-EHS in An der Elisabethkirche 25, 53113 Bonn, Germany. Bonn, where she examines questions pertaining to Responsible for this issue: Susanne Heinke, Heike the potential of water-related confl icts in southern Webb (editing & publishing management), Kerstin Africa. Botsch (assistance), Katharina Moraht (layout). She likes reading, movies, cooking and travelling. Photo page 3: Jan Grebe Phone: +49-228-911960 For more information please contact Fax: +49-228-241215 Ruth Vollmer at [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Œ Internet: www.bicc.de

July–September 2009 Friedensgutachten 2009 was (a) to provide an empirically-based assessment of TCR; (b) to lay theoretical and empirical foundations for examining how TCR functions in n 26 and 27 May, the Friedensgutachten 2009 cases of major inter-ethnic and intra-state confl icts; (Annual State of Peace Report) was presented O and (c) to examine the mutual interaction of TCR to the Bundestag Committees of Foreign Affairs, and development at the community level. Defense, and Economic Cooperation as well as Fur this purpose, the research team carried out in the Bundespressekonferenz. Minister Wieczorek- three fi eld studies in Ghana, Uganda and Timor- Zeul personally was given a copy signed by the Leste with the help of a newly developed scenario- editors. The editors also met with representatives based approach. This new tool allows gathering of the Kanzleramt. data on specifi c categories from groups of partici- The Friedensgutachten was also presented pants, but at the same time is fl exible and open to during a public panel discussion with Andreas any new information presented by the informants. Heinemann-Grueder (BICC), Prof. Thomas Jaeger (University Cologne), Anthony Seaboyer (German Council on Foreign Relations - DGAP) and Ute Lange (Women In International Security - WIIS.de) in the Haus der Geschichte, Bonn. ISIS Europe and the Madariaga European Foundation invited the European Security Contact Group for a meeting in Brussels to launch the Peace Report 2009. The Friedensgutachten 2009 focuses on op- portunities, avenues and limits of putting an end to wars and violent confl ict. The latest wars in the , the and in Africa force researchers to systematically determine the pre- conditions for an end of a war or confl ict. In this year’s Friedensgutachten, the authors look at the concepts, the histories and at urgent cases, such General outcomes of TCR in all our sites consist as the ‘war against terror’ and pirates off the So- of: (a) publicly admitting guilt by the parties mali coast. involved; (b) compensating for loss or damage; and In addition to this, the Friedensgutachten (c) ritualizing the settlement and end of a confl ict. addresses strategies and tools of civilian confl ict Community harmony was found to be the most management. important objective in TCR. Communication was The annual Friedensgutachten is a joined found to be a sine qua non for all TCR. Informants publication of the five major German peace viewed the lack of communication to be the research institutions and is funded by the German primary cause of confl ict, and communicative Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). activities featured prominently in confl ict resolution. This year’s editors are Jochen Hippler, Christiane A major overall goal of this study is to support Froehlich, Margret Johannsen, Bruno Schoch, and development workers who find themselves Andreas Heinemann-Grueder. caught up in local confl icts or having to provide For more information please contact amelioration for recent confl icts. Development Œ Andreas Heinemann-Grueder at and TCR were thus a key category in this study. The [email protected] data shows that development can be a cause of www.friedensgutachten.de confl ict and the development worker may easily be perceived by the community as a party in the confl ict and thus also in the TCR process. Traditional Confl ict Resolution For more information please contact in Three Societies Œ Michael Ashkenazi at [email protected] etween November 2008 and May 2009, BICC Bconducted a project (generously funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ) on traditional confl ict resolution (TCR) in three societies. The project aim

July–September 2009 In the framework of the 2nd Bonn Conference for New BICC Publications Development Policy, which took place from 27–28 August 2009 in Bonn, BICC presented its work to- BICC Annual Report 2008/ 2009 gether with 20 other organizations of development BICC Jahresbericht 2008/ 2009 cooperation. The conference was hosted by the http://www.bicc.de/uploads/pdf/publications/jahres- Ministry for Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women bericht/2009/bicc_annual_report_2008_2009.pdf and Integration of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia http://www.bicc.de/uploads/pdf/publications/ in cooperation with the City of Bonn, the German jahresbericht/2009/bicc_jahresbericht_2008_2009.pdf Development Institute (GDI), the KfW Development Bank and the Association of German Develop- BICC Newsletter Diaspora – Migration – Peacebuilding. ment Non-governmental Organisations (VENRO). Nr. 3 / No 3 The main topic was sub-national development Feature: “Neues Forschungsprojekt zu umweltbe- cooperation. On 28 August, Peter Croll moderated dingter Migration”. the discussion in Forum V, entitled: “Migration and http://www.bicc.de/uploads/pdf/publications/ Development: The role of migrants in sub-national other/diaspora_nl/BICC_Diaspora_NL_3_deutsch.pdf development cooperation”. For more information please contact Franke, Volker C. and Andrea Warnecke. 2009. Œ Peter J. Croll at [email protected] “Building Peace: an Inventory of UN Peace Missions since the End of the Cold War.” International Peacekeeping, Vol. 16/3 (June), pp. 407–436.

BICC Notes

n 11 June, Lars Wirkus participated in the in- Oaugural meeting of the new German Marshall Fund (GMF) initiative on Climate Change-induced Migration. As part of an international, transatlantic expert team, BICC will link discourse on migration fl ows with its consequences for sending and receiv- ing regions connect issues of global environmental From 6–23 July 2009, Dr. Ananda S. Millard and change, in particular climate change, with migra- Nathalie Gendre spent three weeks in Colombia tion and fi nally develop policy responses. conducting interviews on the history and For more information please contact implementation of reintegration of ex-combatants Œ Lars Wirkus at [email protected] in Colombia since 2002. These interviews will be used to compile a historical memory of the reinsertion, Peter J. Croll accompanied Armin Laschet, Minister reincorporation and reintegration process in for Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women and Colombia since 2002. Integration of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia For more information please contact: (NRW) as member of his delegation on his journey Œ Ananda Millard at [email protected] to the NRW-partner country Ghana. The cities of Tamale, where the delegation met with Archbishop On 22 June 2009, BICC celebrated its 15th anniversary Philip Naameh, and Cape Coast, where they visited at the Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn. One of the fi rst the only Cardinal in Ghana, Peter Kodwo Kodwo to congratulate was the Chair of BICC’s Supervisory Appiah Turkson were stops on the Minister’s itiner- Board, Dr. Michael Stueckradt, State Secretary at ary. In Accra, the delegation met with President the Ministry for Innovation, Science, Research and Prof. Atta Mills. On the Legon Campus, University Technology of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia, the of Ghana, Minister Laschet gave a talk on “Migra- Mayor of Bonn, Baerbel Dieckmann, the Rector’s tion, Integration and Development in a Globalized Representative of Bonn University, Prof. Dr. Armin B. World”, and Peter Croll presented the work of BICC. Cremers and Prof. Dr. Herbert Wulf, fi rst Director of For more information please contact BICC. Œ Peter J. Croll at [email protected] For more information please contact Œ Susanne Heinke at [email protected]

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