Christine Schweitzer

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Christine Schweitzer (* 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German ethnologist (Ph D.), pacifist and peace researcher . In 2009 she completed her PhD on interventions in the former Yugoslavia at Coventry University with Andrew Rigby. In addition to her work as a peace scientist, she is active as a practitioner in the field of civil conflict management and in the peace movement.

Life

Schweitzer studied ethnology and prehistory in Göttingen and Cologne from 1978 to 1987 and graduated in 1987 with a master's degree (MA phil). After completing her studies, she was politically active in the Federation of Nonviolent Action Groups - Graswurzelrevolution (FöGA) and worked in the Graswurzelwerkstatt Cologne until 1992. In 1988 and 1989 she was involved in the founding of the Federation for Social Defense (FSIO). In the 1990s she dealt with the conflicts in the area of ​​the former Yugoslavia as part of various projects, including as co-founder of the international Balkan Peace Team. From 1995 to 1998 she was employed as a scientific advisor under a service contract at the State Chancellery in Düsseldorf in the “Foreign Relations” department and supported the state government, among other things, in developing training to become a peace worker as part of the civil peace service that was being established . Schweitzer was managing director at BSV for the first time (from 1998 to 2000), and since 2001 she has also been employed by the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution (IFGK). At the same time, she began working (2000 to 2008) as Research Director, then Program Director for the international non-governmental organization (NGO) Nonviolent Peaceforce . From 2010 to 2012 she primarily carried out commissioned studies and also worked twice for Nonviolent Peaceforce as interim program director. Since October 2012 she has been working as a research assistant for the IFGK and as managing director for the BSV. She is also a long-time editor of the network Friedenskooperative issued Peace Forum . Various voluntary activities in the peace movement and peace research also include board positions at War Resisters' International , the journal Science and Peace , and the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research ; and at the BSV. She is also involved in the civil conflict management platform and the archive active (Hamburg). Since 2014 she has been Chair of the Council of WRI (War Resisters International).

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • (2016) with Jörgen Johansen: To Prevent or to Stop Wars: What Can Peace Movements Do? Irene Publishing
  • (2016) Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping: Effectively Protecting Civilians Without Threat of Violence . Ellen Furnari, Rachel Julian and Christine Schweitzer, Editor: Bund für Soziale Defense, Background and Discussion Paper No. 52, September 2016, 24 pp.
  • (2015) Nonviolent Against Terror. Non-military options against the Islamic State . With essays by Christine Schweitzer and Kristin Williams. Published by the Bund für Soziale Defense, November 2015
  • (2015) Social Defense and Nonviolent Uprising Reloaded. New insights into civil resistance . Background and discussion paper No. 40, February 2015. Minden: Bund für Soziale Defense
  • (2013) Overcoming war - does the half-full glass have a crack? Background and discussion paper No. 33, Minden: Bund für Soziale Defense, April 2013.
  • (2012) with Clemens Ronnefeldt, Karl Grobe-Hagel and Andreas Buro : Syria between nonviolent uprising and civil war. Dossier V of the Monitoring Project Civil Conflict Management , Ed. Cooperation for Peace, Bonn. Available online
  • (2010) Strategies of Intervention in Protracted Violent Conflicts by Civil Society Actors. The Example of Interventions in the Violent Conflicts in the Area of ​​Former Yugoslavia , 1990-2002. Vehre: Sociopublishing. ISBN 978-3-935431-17-0 . Available online (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  • (2010) For a world without armaments and military. Thinking about nonviolent alternatives . AP 24, September. Wahlenau: IFGK. Available online (PDF; 378 kB)
  • (2009) Successfully nonviolent. Professional practice in civil peacebuilding. Published by IFA, Berlin: IFA. Available online

As editor

  • (2012) (Ed.): Civil disobedience and nonviolent actions in the movements. Berlin: AphorismA, ISBN 978-3-86575-499-8
  • (2010) (Ed.): Civilian Peacekeeping - A Barely Tapped Resource . Working Paper No. 23, Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation. Vehre: Socio-Publishing. Available online (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  • (2006) Müller, Barbara and Schweitzer, Christine (ed.): On the topicality of social defense. Documentation of a workshop by IFGK and BSV from 15. – 16. April 2005, published by IFGK / BSV, Sozio-Publishing 2006, available online (PDF; 4.2 MB)
  • (2004) with / Aust, Björn and Schlotter, Peter (eds.): Democracies in War , AFK-Friedensschriften Volume 31, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 978-3-8329-0754-9
  • (2001) Nonviolent Peaceforce -Feasibility Study, ed .: Christine Schweitzer, contributions by: Donna Howard - Mareike Junge - Corey Levine - Christine Schweitzer - Carl Stieren - Tim Wallis, Hamburg / St. Paul, September 2001. Available online
  • (1999) War and Displacement in Kosovo - Is NATO Fire Brigade or Arsonist? Ed .: IFGK, AP No. June 11, 1999, available online

Articles in magazines and books

  • (2014) A European Anti-War Movement: The Response of European Civil Society to the Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia '. In: Gruber, Bettina (Ed.) (2014) The Yugoslav Example. Violence, War and Difficult Ways Towards Peace. Münster / New York: Waxmann: 63-77, ISBN 978-3830928447
  • (2012) 'Overcoming war: the importance of constructive alternatives'. In: Webel, Charles P. and Johansen, Joergen (2012) Peace and Conflict Studies. A reader. London / New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-59129-4
  • (2010) 'Overcoming War'. In: Experiments with Peace. A Book Celebrating Peace on Johan Galtung's 80th Birthday. Ed. by Johansen, Jorgen and Jones, John Y. Oxford et al: Pambazuka Press. ISBN 978-0-85749-019-3
  • (2010) 'Human Security: Providing Protection without Sticks and Carrots'. In M. Pilisuk & MN Nagler (Eds.), Peace movements worldwide: History, psychology, and practices. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-36478-5
  • (2009) 'Civilian Peacekeeping: Providing Protection Without Sticks and Carrots?' In: Clark, Howard (eds) (2009) People Power. Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity. London / New York: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-2901-7
  • (2004) 'Zivile Intervention', in: Sommer, Gert and Fuchs, Albert (Ed.), War and Peace. Handbook of conflict and peace psychology, Weinheim / Basel / Berlin: Beltz Verlag, 2004. ISBN 978-3-935429-50-4
  • (2000) 'Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management', in: Braun, Reiner (Ed.), The Balkan War - Analysis of an Example. Lessons from the war in Kosovo, Witten / Dortmund: pad-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-88515-193-7
  • (2000) “Mir Sada - The Story of a Nonviolent Intervention that Failed”, in: Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan and Thomas Weber (eds), Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders. A Recurrent Vision, Honolulu: Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace. ISBN 978-1-880309-11-7
  • (2000) “Nonviolence as a third way between avoiding conflict and resolving violent conflict”, Barbara Müller and Christine Schweitzer, in: Kempf, Wilhelm (eds.) Conflict and violence: Causes - Development tendencies - Perspektiven, Münster: Agenda Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89688-071-0
  • (2000) “What does it mean to deny military service today?”, In: Wolfram Beyer (Ed.) Deny military service - pacifism today, homage to Ossip K. Flechtheim , Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-924041-18-0
  • (1998) "Intervention: civil, military or non-violent?", In: Grundmann, Martin and Hummel, Hartwig (eds.), Military and Politics - End of the Unambiguous? Baden-Baden: Nomos Verl.-Ges. ISBN 978-3-7890-5671-0
  • (1996) 'What can the international peace movement in Yugoslavia do and what cannot?' and '"With' Open Eyes' in Croatia. The work of the Balkan Peace Team. both in: Beyond violence. Work for peace in Ex-Yugoslavia, Ed. Pax Christi and others, Idstein: Komzi-Verlag. ISBN 978-3 -929522-32-7
  • (1993) 'The anti-war and peace movement in the former Yugoslavia: pioneer of a civil society?', In: Yearbook Peace 1994. Conflicts, Disarmament, Peace Work, Munich: Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-37416-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ifgk.de/vorstellung/mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter/christine-schweitzer/ accessed on February 25, 2013
  2. ↑ http://www.ifgk.de/forschung/abgeschlossen-projekte/strategies-of-intervention-in-protracted-violent-conflicts-by-civil-society-actors/ (accessed on February 25, 2013)
  3. ↑ Documentation of the Federal Congress Ways to Social Defense from 17.-19. June 1988. Without weapons - but not defenseless !, published by the Bund für Soziale Defense, Minden 1989
  4. ↑ http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/b/ARCH02595.php ; (accessed on February 25, 2013)
  5. ↑ Friedensforum magazine
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wri-irg.org
  7. ↑ http://ur.dadaweb.de/flechtheim_reader.htm (accessed on February 25, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Schweitzer, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg