CV
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Herbert Wulf was Director of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) from its foundation in 1994 until 2001. He is presently a research associate at
BICC and an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the
Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg/Essen where he was previously a Deputy Director. He was a visiting scholar at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia in 2007 and 2010; this centre is succeeded now by
PaCSIA - Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia. He is a Research Affiliate at the
National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. Herbert Wulf has served as a consultant to various international organizations, among them the Parliament and the Commission of the European Union as well as to the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, the Human Development Report of UNDP. He served as consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in Pyongyang, Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea on capacity building in disarmament in 1991 and between 2002 and 2007. He teaches at the
Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany.
In his previous research positions he was a Project Leader at the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and at the
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.
His research fields include
governance, with UN peacekeeping and the future of the monopoly of violence, internationalization and
privatization of conflict and the privatization of the armed forces,
arms production, arms trade, arms industry conversion and
arms control and disarmament, especially within the UN system. A particular
regional interest relates to India (in development cooperation theory) and North Korea (the nuclear ambitions).
The government of North-Rhein Westphalia, Germany awarded professorship to Herbert Wulf in 2002. He studied at the Universities of Cologne (economics), Mannheim and Hamburg (sociology) and wrote his dissertation at the Free University of Berlin in international relations. He taught at several Universities in Germany, Scandinavia and the United States. Prior to his work in research, he was Director of the German Volunteer Service in India. In February 2007 the
Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany, awarded the Peter-Becker price for peace and conflict research to Herbert Wulf.
Recent lectures and consultations: at the
Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics on
Conflict Early Warning and Regional Organisations; at the International Peace Institute, New York, USA , IPI Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity, May 2008
on small arms; at the University of Hamburg, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Zentrum für Naturwissenschaften und Friedensforschung,
ZNF; at the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany
Center for Conflict Studies.
Consultations for the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
GTZ on security sector reform and small arms control; for the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
KfW on security sector reform; for the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces
DCAF as reviewer of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Yearbooks on security sector reform; for the EU-Kommission (DG Employment): Study Anticipating Employment Effects of the European Defence Industry; for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI as reviewer of the 2008 and 2009 Yearbook chapters on Defence Production and Military Expenditures and as reviewer of a research report on private military companies; for the East West Institute, Brussels
East-West Institute Feasibility Study for the Establishment of a Task Force for Crises Prevention.
