07/2010
On July 1, 2010 the chairman of the World Economic Forum, Prof. Klaus Schwab, informed BCR’s Prof. Gießmann of his appointment to the forum’s new Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Terrorism. The GACs comprise 15 to 20 members from all over the world and serve as an informal advisory board to the World Economic Forum and, through the forum, to the international community. As mentioned in their mission statement, the councils represent “the world’s foremost integrated ‘intelligence’ network of innovative thinking and idea exchange on global issues”. This is Prof. Gießmann’s second term to serve as a GAC member.
06/2010
The first public hearing of the newly-established Sub-Committee “Civil Crisis Prevention and Cross-Linked Security” of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) was held on June 14, 2010 in Berlin. The new Sub-Committee had been invited to this hearing in order to become informed about the challenges and current tasks of civil crisis prevention. BCR Director Dr. Hans J. Gießmann was one of the six invited experts who testified.
05/2010
The Director of Berghof Conflict Research, Prof. Hans J. Giessmann, was one of two selected resource persons for the first Security Briefing webinar meeting in the “Security – Balancing Travel Efficiency with Security Needs” series, organized by the World Economic Forum, which took place on May 5th, 2010. Together with the EU representative to the US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), Jean-Louis Bruguiére, he informed leading representatives from global companies about recent trends in terrorist activities and challenges for curbing risks and threats. Prof. Giessmann became a member of the Forum’s Council on Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction in 2009.
02/2010
We have a new website, launched on 3 February 2010. Several new features have been added, with updates on our work in German and English. We have also re-launched the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation website in a new design format.
01/2010
Timed to fit in with the re-launch of our website, we are introducing our new, more compact name of “Berghof Conflict Research” (BCR). Together with our sister organisation – now “Berghof Peace Support” (BPS) – we will continue working under the Berghof umbrella to combine practical peacebuilding with innovative conflict research.