| Do you have any professional experience in the field of peace-research? peace-studies? peace-practice? |
throrough studies on Colombia, causes for the guerrrilla, analysis of Mahatma Gandhi´s Ahimsda“ and „Swaraj“ found as a contrast to la violencia en Colombia
several more cases I worked in with conflicts: Ethiopia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Angola.
Lecturing in various German and Latin American universities on development, conflict- and poverty reduction
Directing evaluation missions
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| What are your primary conceptual interests and concerns |
deepen conflict-reduction and peace-building (for example in Colombia with FARC and overcoming old conflict patterns
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| What is your main regional focus? |
Latin America, lusophone Africa and Brazil, India
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| Languages |
fluent in French, Spanish, English, Portuguese
German (mother tongue)
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| CV |
Since 1984 Founder and Executive Director of
Institute of Comparative Development Policy (ICDP)
• International Consultancy, Research, Planning, Management and Project Evaluation
Headquarter and Liaison Bureau to European Institutions: D 77790 Steinach, Germany (outskirt of Strasbourg/France -in Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau)
Main duties: Acquisition of projects, recruitment of personnel, training, Head of evaluation missions, Design of new projects, management,
Consultancy and applied action-research in rural development, humanitarian aid, reconstruction and participation; Migration-Refugees and Displaced, Peace (“Colombia no-violenta” really exists!!) and Conflict-reduction (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Thailand, Spain and Portugal, Germany, USA, French immigration in Prussia)
Report-writing and publications – Evaluations for the European Commission, German Government, Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies, Misereor, Caritas-Germany and India, Political Foundations (Konrad-Adenauer- and Fr. Naumann-Stiftung);
Research in Social and Development-Cooperation, Capacity Development, Consultancy, Training (global in scope), Small Enterprises, Humanitarian Aid, Self-Organization, Reconstruction, Gender (also in Islam), Participation (Latin America, South East Asia, Africa (lusophone countries, Ethiopia, Sudan) Evaluation
(possibility to go on leave for longer sojourns abroad)
Lectureship and Training in
Pontifícia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia – Göttingen University, Free University of Berlin, Giessen University, Germany,Universidad Nacional del Perú en Trujillo,
Youth and Adult Education in German Foundation for International Development (DSE/InWent), Training for Leadership at International Academy, Sintra-Portugal,
at European Academy Otzenhausen, Saar-Germany, at National University Peru, and for Caritas-India in Calcutta, India
Research in
University Hamburg on cultural aspects of regional development in Colombia; Konstanz University on migration and integration of asylum-seekers in Germany; University of Göttingen on rural development in Pakistan, Mahatma Ghandian´s development strategy, IAP-Investigación y Acción Participativa” of the School of O.Fals Borda; Free University of Berlin-Germany on peace-keeping, strategies against hunger in different economic systems (Colombia, Cuba, PRC, 2. Spanish Republic 1936-1939); London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on migration and entrepreneurship (immigration from India to USA between 1950 to 2000 and historic immigration of Huguenots in 17th century Prussia)
Project Management for IOM-Colombia, German Red Cross Society-in Ethiopia; ICDP since 1984
Publications on Migration, Entrepreneurship, Refugees, Self-Help, Humanitarian Aid, Mahatma Gandhi´s non-violent development strategy as contrast to Colombian violence
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