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Herbert Wulf (Germany) is project leader of a research project
on internationalization and privatization of tradition military
functions and the effect of these trends on the democratic control
of the armed forces. He was Director of the Bonn International Center
for Conversion (BICC) from its foundation in 1994 until 2001. He
is also a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme
in Pyongyang, Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea on capacity
building in disarmament. Herbert Wulf has served as a consultant
to the Commission and the Parliament of the European Union as well
as to several United Nations agencies, among them the UN
Department for Disarmament Affairs (to establish the UN Register
of Conventional Arms; Small Arms and Light Weapons Control ), the
Human Development Report of UNDP
(to examine the peace dividend; arms transfer issues and security
sector reform in developing countries), the International Labour
Organisation (to analyze jobs and job retraining programs in the
defense industry) and UNESCO
(to investigate the cultural dimension of defense industry advertising).
In his previous research positions he was Deputy Director of the
Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg
and Senior Researcher at the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (arms transfer and arms
production project leader) and at the University of Hamburg. His
research fields include arms trade (in recent years especially on
small arms control), arms industry conversion, development cooperation,
development theory and international relations, with a regional
focus on South Asia. He has published several books and many journal
articles on these issues.
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. He started his career in banking both
in Germany and the United States.
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