01 Sustainable Peace and Security – Who Cares?
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Hauptschule
Seminar
in englischer SpracheThis Seminar will approach the question of peace and security from two different angles: first, it will ask whether these key terms of human relationships can be understood only as a singular or whether a definition as a plural concept may be a more sustainable contribution to conflict transformation. In this sense, we will discuss the so-called transrational shift in international peace and security work since 1992. Second, the seminar will look at the long-term evolution of Western thinking about strategy and warfare in the light of war aims: were these aims merely military victory or did they create sustainable, enduring peace? Was thinking about strategy guided by the conviction that might was right or that might had to be legitimised in the first place?
Recommended literature:
Dietrich, Wolfgang (2013): Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the Transrational Shift in Peace Politics (Many Peaces Vol. 2 ); Palgrave MacMillan , London.
Heuser, Beatrice (2010a): The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present. (Cambridge University Press)
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DDr. Wolfgang DIETRICH
Director, UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies, MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck
| 1986 | Fulbright Scholarship for Latin American-Studies in New Orleans, USA |
| 1988 | Awarded for information on Third World Issues by the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops |
| Post-Doc-Scholarship for Advanced Research in South- and Central America | |
| 1989-1991 | President of the Austrian Section of Amnesty International |
| 1990-1992 | Research Project of the Austrian Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Research in Guatemala and Mexico |
| Since 1991 Member of the Consultative Council of the Austrian Service for Information on Development Politics ÖIE | |
| Since 1992 Member of the International Political Sciences Association IPSA | |
| Since 1992 Member of the Austrian Political Sciences Association ÖGPW | |
| 1993 | Consultant of the Austrian North-South-Institute in Guatemala |
| Consultant of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guatemala | |
| 1993-2010 | Member of the Board of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| 1994-1997 | Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology APART, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Central America, Caribbean, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia) |
| 1995-1998 | President of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| 1995-2007 | Academic Director of the Austrian Institute for Latin America |
| 1996 | Consultant of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Eastern Africa |
| 1998-2002 | Vice-President of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| Since 1999 Founding Member of the International Advisory Board of the South Asian Institute for Peace Studies SAIPS, Nepal | |
| 1999-2001 | Director of the International and Interdisciplinary Project "Networking Central-Eastern Europe and Latin America" |
| Academic Coordinator of the Festival "Feuerberge Tirol" | |
| Since 2000 Member of the Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies, University of Deusto, Spain | |
| 2001-2009 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Institute for Latin America |
| Since 2001 Academic Director of the MA Program for Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation, University of Innsbruck, Austria | |
| 2002-2005 | Member of the Academic Board "Latin American Studies" Danube's University Krems, Austria |
| Austrian Representative to the Comisión Directiva del Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (Member of UNESCO) | |
| 2002-2010 | Board of Directors of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| Since 2002 Member of TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means | |
| 2004-2006 | Austrian coordinator of the ERASMUS project Comunicación Intercultural en las Relaciones Económicas Internacionales Estudios Ibéricos y Latinoamericanos |
| Academic coordinator of REAL 2006 in the frame of the Austrian presidency of the EU | |
| 2005-2006 | Austrian coordinator of the ALFA Project AMELAT XXI |
| Since 2006 Member of the Advisory Council of the Galizan Institute for International Security and Peace Studies (IGESIP) | |
| Since 2007 Member of the International Advisory Council of the Project Paz y Conflictos en las Universidades Andaluzas e Iberoamericanas, University of Granada, Spain | |
| Since 2008 UNESCO Chairholder for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria | |
| Since 2008 Member of the Austrian UNESCO Commission | |
| Since 2011 Member of the Acadamic Advisory Board for Peace Research and Peace Education at the University of Klagenfurt | |
| Since 2013 Mentor and Advisory Board of Olympism4Humanity |
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Beatrice HEUSER
Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, Berkshire
| 2003-2007 | Head of Research, MGFA - German Armed Forces Military History Research Office, Potsdam |
| Since 2007 Chair of International Relations, University of Reading | |
| 1991-2003 | Chair of International and Strategic Studies, Department of War Studies, King's College London |
| 1989-1991 | Scientific assistant of the director, SWP - German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin |
