Barbara Müller (historian)

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Barbara Müller (2017)

Barbara Müller (* 1959 ) is a German historian , peace and conflict researcher , moderator, organizational developer and coach.

Live and act

Müller grew up in Soest in Westphalia . After graduating from high school in 1978 at the humanistic Archigymnasium in Soest, she studied history, Eastern European history and political science in Münster and Bonn with a master's degree in 1984. Since 1983 she has been active in peace initiatives in Bonn and in the Hunsrück . After moving there, she was employed in the Kastellaun Peace Office in 1986/87 . She has lived in Wahlenau since 1989 .

As early as 1984 she did research on the subject of passive resistance during the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 with numerous archival visits to Merseburg and Potsdam , from which her dissertation arose. In the meantime she worked as a cemetery gardener. In 1988 she was involved in the preparations for the Ways to Social Defense congress and received partial funding from the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research from 1989 to 1991 for her dissertation, which she completed in 1995. Since then she has been the managing director of the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution (IFGK).

In 1995 she co-founded the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation and from 1997 to 2003 she was involved in setting up and managing the secretariat of the civil conflict transformation platform . She belongs to the founding team of the Federal Social Defense (BSV), was its member of the first board and later again from 1997 to 2003. As a member of the district assembly of the Rhein-Hunsrück district for Pro Rhein-Hunsrück , she participated in 1997 and 1998 as a demonstration observer Castor transports in Wendland .

After Barbara Müller also obtained a diploma in organizational development at Trigon Development Consulting in 2003 , she worked on the board of the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) from 2006 to 2010 , as its deputy chair until 2008 and first chair until 2010 In 2010 Barbara Müller is self-employed in the field of coaching - moderation - organizational development. In 2011 she graduated as a system coach and in 2016 as a coach (basic) in the Internal Family System (IFS).

Main focus of work in the East and the Global South

Since 1991 Barbara Müller started seminars in East Germany , where she held workshops a. a. held with employees of refugee hostels on the subject of non-violent strategies for dealing with violent and threatening situations . Before completing her doctoral thesis, she co-founded the IFGK Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution in order to offer researchers on nonviolence an opportunity for mutual exchange, support with applications and fundraising . There were also regular meetings (every six months) with study days at which research papers were discussed; the strategic development of the institute was in Müller's hands. For ten years she was employed on projects at the IFGK. In 1996 her research topic was Nonviolent Intervention in Crisis and War . Together with Christian Büttner , she developed a comparative analysis of ten historical cases as well as their systematization and transfer to the escalation and de-escalation dynamics of conflicts. This became a working paper of the IFGK in autumn 1996. In the same year Barbara Müller initiated and designed the first international conference of the IFGK in the Evangelical Academy in Mülheim on the results of this study. It financed it itself. From then on it expanded its peace research activities on an international level. As before, there were so-called working papers and reports at the end :

  • Together with Christian Büttner, she wrote an accompanying study for the Balkan Peace Team from 1997 to 1999 . This work was funded by the project association Conflict Research Lower Saxony , carried out at the University of Hanover by Peter Gleichmann and concluded with an internal report.
  • Since 1997 she has been running strategy and planning workshops for organizations and networks in the field of peace work, human rights and development cooperation.
  • In 1999–2001 the focus was on the possibilities of promoting peace networks of internal actors in conflict areas. To this end, two workshops in Germany and Croatia and a conference in Croatia on the subject of return and future were held in Knin (IFGK working paper).
  • Since 2001 a project including support has been developed at the Federation for Social Defense with the content (and concluded with the publication): Planning and adapting nonviolent interventions .
  • A manuscript on the history of the Balkan Peace Team was created and published in 2004, funded as a small project by the German Peace Research Foundation .
  • After that, Müller's work focused on organizational development and moderation, and since 2011 in coaching. These activities benefited their residential area in the Hunsrück in the form of village moderation in their home town of Wahlenau and help with organizational development for the medical team in Büchenbeuren .
  • From 2011, she worked as a co-developer of ASHA ( Advanced Social Historical Analysis ) operations in India, together with Khurshid Anwar, Shruti Chaturvedi and Wolfgang Heinrich. She moderated pilot workshops on ASHA in Dhaka (2012 and 2013) and Mammalapuram India (2016).
  • On behalf of Bread for the World , she passed on her experience as a planner and moderator at learning workshops for the exchange of experts from the Global South ( Evangelical Development Service (EED)) 2005/2015/2017.

Publications

  • Barbara Müller: Nonviolent Interventions Planning and Adapting (GIPA). A handout. Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935431-78-1 , EAN: 9783935431781.
  • Barbara Müller: Chronicle Büchenbeuren. 1993. Edited by the local community of Büchenbeuren. ISBN 978-3-929866-00-1 .
  • Barbara Müller: Passive resistance in the Ruhr struggle. A case study on non-violent interstate conflict resolution and its conditions for success. Diss. 1995, ISBN 978-3-8258-2675-8 .
  • More publications here

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. There she organized blockades and process monitoring, carried out observations of missile transports and did press and public relations work for the peace initiative Rhine - Hunsrück.
  2. Example of a letter from the peace office in Kastellaun .
  3. Barbara Müller: Passive resistance in the Ruhr struggle. A case study on non-violent interstate conflict resolution and its conditions for success . Dissertation 1995.
  4. ^ Federal Congress on Ways to Social Defense PDF
  5. ^ Berghof Foundation
  6. Barbara Müller and IFGK .
  7. whose spokeswoman she was in 1994
  8. ↑ Chances of optimizing peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding through nonviolent interventions? Study on the methodical and systematic operationalization of this question
  9. ^ Balkan Peace Team
  10. India video
  11. Bread for the World
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