In the so-called Millennium Development Goals the international development cooperation ambitiously aims to reduce the most dramatic forms of poverty until 2015. However, development as an idea today finds itself in a serious crisis of confidence. On the one hand the powerful and rich donor states are not keeping their promises; on the other hand the mistrust against the often very corrupt elites of the receiving countries is rapidly growing.
The frustrating experiences of the so-called “development decades” in the past and the revolutionary approaches of post-structuralism are shattering the foundations of development theory. Post-modern and trans-rational schools of peace and development research are challenging the alleged relation between peace and modernising development. As if this were not enough, the fatal effects of modern development thought on vernacular contexts are gradually becoming evident.
This seminar will discuss this crisis of confidence in western development concepts and stress the critique of the practice of conventional development cooperation. It will show the difference between modern, post-modern and trans-rational approaches in peace and development studies and present the recent methods of elicitive conflict transformation.
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Irene FREUDENSCHUSS-REICHL
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Leiterin, Sektion für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Bundesministerium für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten, Wien |
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Astier M. ALMEDOM
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Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston |
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Wolfgang DIETRICH
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Director, UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies, MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck |
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Leiterin, Sektion für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Bundesministerium für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten, Wien
| 1979 | Lehramtsstudium Romanistik und Germanistik, Universität Innsbruck und Sorbonne (Paris); Mag.phil
| 1980-1981 | Assistentin für Französische Linguistik an der Universität Innsbruck
| 1981 | Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Innsbruck; Mag. und Dr. iuris
| 1982 | Préalable und Eintritt ins BMfAA; Zuteilungen an die Konferenzabteilung (damals I.5) und die politische Abteilung für Afrika, Asien, Nahost (damals II.4);
| 1983-1984 | Stage an der ÖB Kairo
| 1985 | Versetzung an den Österreichischen Informationsdienst in New York; stv. Leiterin des Informationsdienstes und Presse-Rätin an der ÖV New York
| 1991 | Religionswissenschaften, Fordham University, New York; M.A.
| 1991 | Versetzung an die ÖV New York; Betreuung der Wirtschafts- und Entwicklungsagenden; zeitweilig Stv. MCin; Rapporteur der 2. Kommission
| 1994 | Betrauung mit der Leitung des Referats für internationale Frauenfragen; stv. Leiterin der damaligen Abt. I.6, stv. Ständige Vertreterin bei den VN in Wien; Vorsitzfunktionen (ECE-Konferenz, 1994; Weltfrauenkonferenz 1995)
| 1995 | Betrauung mit der Leitung der internationalen Abteilung im Umweltministerium; umfassende bi- und multilaterale Zuständigkeit; Befassung mit EU-Agenden; erfolgreiche Anregung der österr. Initiativen im internationalen Energiebereich
| 1998 | Ernennung zur Ständigen Vertreterin Österreichs bei den VN in Wien; Lancierung des Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (siehe www.gfse.at); Ko-Vorsitz bei den ersten globalen Energieverhandlungen (CSD-9); diverse Bürofunktionen bei den Organen der Wiener Organisationen
| 2001 | Betrauung mit der Leitung des UNIDO-Büros in New York im Rang eines Assistant Director General for UN Affairs; Koordination der Teilnahme der UNIDO beim Weltgipfel für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
| 2004 | Rückkehr in die Zentrale nach Erfüllung des Vertrags mit der UNIDO; Zuteilung zur Sektion VII; abteilungsübergreifende Unterstützung des HSL VII
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
| 1988 | Post-Doc-Scholarship for Advanced Research in South- and Central America
| 1989-1991 | President of the Austrian Section of Amnesty International
| | Since 1991 Member of the Consultative Council of the Austrian Service for Information on Development Politics ÖIE
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| | Since 1992 Member of the International Political Sciences Association IPSA
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| | Since 1992 Member of the Austrian Political Sciences Association ÖGPW
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| 1990-1992 | Research Project of the Austrian Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Research in Guatemala and Mexico
| 1993 | Consultant of the Austrian North-South-Institute in Guatemala
| 1993 | 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
| | Since 1999 Founding Member of the International Advisory Board of the South Asian Institute for Peace Studies SAIPS, Nepal
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| 1998-2002 | Vice-President of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies
| 1999-2001 | Director of the International and Interdisciplinary Project "Networking Central-Eastern Europe and Latin America"
| | Since 2000 Member of the Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies, University of Deusto, Spain
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| 1999-2001 | Academic Coordinator of the Festival "Feuerberge Tirol"
| | Since 2001 Academic Director of the MA Program for Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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| 2001-2009 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Institute for Latin America
| 2002-2005 | Member of the Academic Board "Latin American Studies" Danube's University Krems, Austria
| 2002-2005 | Austrian Representative to the Comisión Directiva del Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (Member of UNESCO)
| | Since 2002 Member of TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
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| 2002-2010 | Board of Directors of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies
| 2004-2006 | Austrian coordinator of the ERASMUS project Comunicación Intercultural en las Relaciones Económicas Internacionales Estudios Ibéricos y Latinoamericanos
| 2004-2006 | Academic coordinator of REAL 2006 in the frame of the Austrian presidency of the EU
| | Since 2006 Member of the Advisory Council of the Galizan Institute for International Security and Peace Studies (IGESIP)
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| | Since 2007 Member of the International Advisory Council of the Project Paz y Conflictos en las Universidades Andaluzas e Iberoamericanas, University of Granada, Spain
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| | Since 2008 UNESCO Chairholder for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
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| | Since 2008 Member of the Austrian UNESCO Commission
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| | Since 2011 Member of the Acadamic Advisory Board for Peace Research and Peace Education at the University of Klagenfurt
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| | Since 2013 Mentor and Advisory Board of Olympism4Humanity |
