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Conferences and Courses (selected)

December 2011: “A Changed Europe: Crisis and Renewal during the Danish EU Presidency 2012”, TEPSA Danish Pre-Presidency Conference, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), December 8th-9th, Copenhagen

September 2011: “Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty: New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience”, EADI/DSA General Conference, September 19th-22nd, University of York

June 2011: “Ziviles und militärisches Engagement in Konflikten – Ministerien und Zivilgesellschaft im Gespräch [Civil and Military Engagement in Conflicts – Engaging Ministries and Civil Society]; BAKS-Tagung, June 7th/8th, Berlin, Federal College for Security Studies

April 2011: "Sustainable Peace Building: Humanizing Peace and Conflict Studies", 4th Graz Workshop on the Future of Security, University of Graz, April 7th/8th, 2011

December 2010: "The Whole-of-What-Approach? Civil Society and Cooperation in International Operations", Vienna, oiip, December 1st, 2010

May 2010: 5th Conference on South-East Asian Studies: “Human Security in South-East Asia”, SEAS, Vienna

May 2010: “The 3C approach in fragile situations – the role of civil society”, Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports, Austrian Development Cooperation, Vienna, May 5th/6th, 2010

April 2010: Potsdam Spring Dialogues 2010: “External Shocks and Africa’s Regional Organisations: From Reaction to Prevention”, Development and Peace Foundation, Hotel Voltaire, Potsdam, April 16th/17th, 2010

April 2010: GIWK-Tagung “Einheitliches Recht für die Vielfalt der Kulturen? Strafrecht und Kriminologie in Zeiten transkultureller Gesellschaften und transnationalen Rechts [Uniformity of justice for the multiplicity of cultures? Criminal law and sociology in times of transcultural societies and transnational justice]”, Vienna, Renner-Institut, April 8th/9th, 2010

December 2009: “International Conference on the Contributions of Austria to Peacebuilding”, ÖSFK, Stadtschlaining, December 10th/11th, 2009

November 2008: 4th Austrian Development Conference, “Wachstum – Umwelt – Entwicklung [Growth – Environment – Development]”, Innsbruck, Austria

June 2008: 12th EADI General Conference, “Global Governance for Sustainable Development”, Geneva, Switzerland

December 2006: Drei-Länder-Tagung ÖGPW-SVPW-DVPW, “Politik und Persönlichkeit [Politics and Personality]”, University of Vienna

November 2005: Conference “Islam in a Pluralistic World”, Hofburg/Vienna, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria

September 2005: 11th EADI General Conference, “Insecurity and Development”, Bonn, Germany

September 2005: “powi04 Methodenworkshop [powi04 Workshop on Methods]”, Co-Organiser, Institute for Political Sciences, University of Vienna

May 2005: CEPSA Annual Conference “A New International Role for Small(er) States”, University of Vienna, Department of Political Sciences

January 2005: “Constructing European Security Policy After Madrid”, 18th ISODARCO Winter Course, Andalo, Italy

June 2004: Conference “From the Global to the Local: How Power in the ‘North’ Affects Lives in the ‘South’”, Third Annual Students for Development Conference, Oxford University

Lectures and Workshops (selected)

19. October 2011: “Recht oder Gerechtigkeit: Was schafft ‘Transitional Justice’? [Justice or Justness: Beyond ‘Transitional Justice’]”, oiip, Vienna

20. September 2011: “Promoting ‘Resilience’ in Situations of Fragility: Possible Implications on EU Donor Policies”, EADI/DSA General Conference, University of York

29. June 2011: Workshop “Working in fragile states and situations: A challenge for the development cooperation”, Austrian Development Agency, Pristina, Kosovo

25. May 2011: “Assessing Our Civilian Protection Performance”, Conference “Exploring New Capacities to Address the Threat of Atrocity Crimes”, Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and United Nations, Vienna

8. April 2011 “UN-Missions between Mandate and Marketplace: The Case of Sudan”,4th Graz Workshop on the Future of Security, University of Graz

28. September 2010: “Fragile Staaten - Herausforderungen für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit [Fragile States - Challenges for Development Cooperation]”, ADA-“Themendienstag”, with Dominique-Clair Mair, Austrian Development Agency, Vienna

23. September 2010: “Sicherheit und Entwicklung - Implikationen für das Bundesministerium für Finanzen [Security and Development - Implications for the Federal Ministry of Finance]”, with Alexander Klimburg, Austrian Ministry of Finance (BMF), Vienna

8. June 2010: “Konfliktfrühwarnung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit [Conflict Early Warning in Development Cooperation]”, ADA-“Themendienstag”, Austrian Development Agency, Vienna

28. April 2010: “Konfliktfrühwarnung und Konfliktmanagement: Widerspruch oder Ergänzung? [Conflict Early Warning and Conflict Management: Contradiction or Complementarity?]”, with Stefan Khittel, Vienna, Austrian Institute for International Affairs

8. April 2010: “Internationales Strafrecht und die Anklage von „Genozid“: Der IStGH und sein Fall Bashier [International Criminal Law and the Charge of „Genocide“: The ICC and it’s Bashir Case]”, GIWK-Tagung “Einheitliches Recht für die Vielfalt der Kulturen? [Uniformity of justice for the multiplicity of cultures?]”, Vienna, Renner-Institut

25. January 2010: “Weht ein neuer Wind aus dem Weißen Haus? – USA und Kolumbien [Is there a new wind blowing from the White House? – USA and Colombia]”, Conference “Kolumbien – Allein gegen alle Bedrohungen? [Colombia – alone against all threats?]”, Vienna, Diplomatic Academy

15. January 2010: “Development and Security: Case Study Southern Sudan – Bilateral Approaches”, Expert Workshop “Development and Security – Case Study Southern Sudan”, oiip / BMLVS, Vienna

24. June 2009: “'Staatsschwäche': Theoriegeschichtliche Betrachtungen ['State Weakness': historical and theoretical observations]”, AG Fragile States, Austrian Development Agency, Vienna

9. June 2009: “Zivilgesellschaft in gesamtstaatlichen Ansätzen für internationale Einsätze [Civil Society in Whole-of-Governance-Approaches for International Missions]”, Roundtable “Zivilgesellschaft im Auslandseinsatzkonzept [Civil Society and the Integrated Mission Concept]”, BKA / oiip, Schloss Laudon

19. February 2009: “Sri Lanka - The Final Battle? What follows the war against the LTTE?”, Panel Discussion, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna

27. June 2008: “Security-related Development Cooperation of Small States: A comparison of Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands in the field of development cooperation in the context of violent conflict”, 12th EADI General Conference “Global Governance for Sustainable Development”, Geneva, Switzerland (with Stefan Khittel)

10. April 2008: “Governance in bewaffneten Konflikten: Ein Ansatzpunkt für interdisziplinäre Forschung in den Sozialwissenschaften [Governance in Violent Conflict: Starting Point for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences?]”, Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Panel “Anthropology and Governance”, University of Vienna, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology (with Stefan Khittel)

1. April 2008: “Sicherheit und Entwicklung: Aspekte und Problemstellungen zunehmender Verschränkung [Security and Development: Aspects and Problems of their increasing Entanglement]”; Panel Discussion “Sicherheitsinteressen und EZA: Chancen und Risiken verstärkter Kooperation [Security Interests and Development Cooperation: Chances and Risks of increasing Cooperation]”, ÖFSE, Vienna, Latin America Institute

9. May 2007: “Postmodern Notions of Peace and Their Implications for Efforts of Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka”; SAPI Monthly Lecture Series No. 6, South Asian Peace Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

30. November 2006: “Joseph Kony, der ICC, und die Suche nach Frieden in Acholiland [Joseph Kony, the ICC, and the Quest for Peace in Acholiland]”; 3-Länder-Tagung “Politik und Persönlichkeit”, University of Vienna

22. September 2005: “EU Development Policy as Alternative to the ‘Global War on Terrorism’? An Examination of Security-related Development Programmes in Two Crisis Regions”, 11th EADI General Conference “Insecurity and Development”, Bonn, Germany

28. June 2005: “Die Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao ARMM: ein erfolgreicher Weg der Friedensentwicklung auf den südlichen Philippinen? [The ARMM – a promising way of Peacebuilding in the Southern Philippines?]”, University of Vienna – SEAS Lecture

21. May 2005: “Front-Runners or Appendices? Assessing the Potential of Small States in Security-Related Development Cooperation”; CEPSA Annual Conference, University of Vienna

25. June 2004: “Der Kampf der Bangsa Moro – Geschichte und Perspektiven der islamischen Bewegung auf den Philippinen. [The Bangsa Moro struggle – history and perspectives of the Islamic movement in the Philippines]”, Kulturverein Kanafani, Vienna

22. June 2004: “Development Policy as Security Strategy? Security-related development programs in Mindanao, Philippines”; Conference “From the Global to the Local”, Oxford University, UK

26. April 2004: Round-Table Discussion: “European Development Policy As Security Strategy?”, University of the Philippines, Diliman/Metro Manila, Philippines (with Stefan Khittel)