05: Resilience and development policy
This seminar examines how resilience relates to development policy. The concept of resilience offers explanations for the failure to actually deliver development in many contexts around the world; it shifts the focus towards impact and requires engagement with the concrete realities on the ground. Special emphasis will be given to fragile and conflict-affected states. New trends in international crisis and conflict management will be examined, and the rise and fall of human security will be interrogated.
Against the backdrop of momentous changes in geostrategic relations and global governance, the seminar will reflect on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, the need for infrastructure, and the special challenges and opportunities of the African continent.
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Dr. Jan POSPISIL
Senior Researcher and Head of Vienna Bureau, ASPR - Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Vienna; Research Fellow, PSRP - Political Settlements Research Programme, University of Edinburgh
| 2004-2006 | Associate Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
| 2006-2011 | Afilliated Researcher, oiip - Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna |
| 2011-2017 | Senior Researcher, oiip - Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna |
| 2015-2017 | Research Fellow, Political Settlements Research Programme, University of Edinburgh |
| since 2006 | Teaching Fellow, University of Vienna |
| since 2017 | Head of Research and Head of Bureau, ASPR - Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Vienna |
Dr. Tania RÖDIGER-VORWERK
Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bonn
| Tania is currently the Deputy Director General at Directorate 31 Sustainable Development; Natural Resources; Economic Policy and Infrastructure and Director of Strategy and Policy planning in the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. She is a research fellow at the Faculty of Law in the University of Bonn and a UNESCO staff member for its Global Educational Program in Munich and Seoul. She studied Law and Northern Languages at the University of Freiburg and Munich, holds a degree in law from the University of Munich and her PhD in European Environmental Law. |
Mag. Dr. Ursula WERTHER-PIETSCH
Professor, International Law and International Relations, University of Graz
| Ursula Werther-Pietsch ist Dozentin für Völkerrecht und internationale Beziehungen an der Universität Graz und Lehrbeauftragte an den Universitäten Wien und Graz, Landesverteidigungsakademie sowie verschiedenen Fachhochschulen. Sie ist stellvertretende Abteilungsleiterin im Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres, Gründerin des Masterstudiums "Global Peace and Security" an der Donau Universität Krems sowie wissenschaftliche Beraterin beim Akademischen Forum für Außenpolitik. Publikationen auf dem Gebiet Friedenssicherung, Peacebuilding, SDGs, EZA und EU Recht. |
