Wolf-christian Paes
Head
Advisory Services
Bonn International Center for Conversion
Germany
Biography
Wolf-Christian Paes joined the German air force in 1995 after graduating from high school doing voluntary military service for a period of two years serving inter alia with the German Armed Forces Command in Washington, DC and the German Air Force Command in Cologne-Wahn.In 1998, he was a Program Assistant for a capacity-development project of the Cape Town (South Africa) office of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation. He has also worked as an electoral observer for the German Foreign Office in South Africa (1994) and Lesotho (1998). In addition to working at BICC, Wolf-Christian teaches regularly at the GIZ Academy of International Cooperation in Bad Honnef and has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Hamburg, Bonn and Hagen.
Research Interest
SALW control, security Sector reform (SSR) and DD&R, natural resources and violent conflict, development and review of program designs.
