Herbert Wulf

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Herbert Wulf (* 1939 ) is an internationally known peace and conflict researcher and retired German university professor for political science .

Herbert Wulf, 2008

Life

Herbert Wulf completed his studies in social sciences in 1978 with a doctorate on arms imports as technology transfer . He worked for several years as a development worker and later as a scientist at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and at the world-renowned international peace research institute SIPRI in Stockholm . In 1994 he became the founding director of the Internationale Konversionszentrum Bonn - Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). Wulf led the research institute, which is dedicated to the practical implementation and evaluation of disarmament issues, until 2001. In 2007, he conducted research as a visiting scholar on "State and Violence" at the Australian Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia Brisbane . At the ceremony at Philipps University on February 9, 2007, he said that he would donate half of his Peter Becker Prize money to the Australian Center for Peace and Conflict Studies located there , and the other half will go to the journal Wissenschaft und Peace . Most of his books and scientific writings have been published in English as well as in German.

Herbert Wulf's major research project in the last decade, internationalization and privatization of war and peace , which led to the scientific book of the same name, which is also linguistically accessible to non-specialists, is dedicated to the observed trend towards outsourcing military contracts to private companies. In the USA and Great Britain in particular, this is an increasing trend, as shown particularly in the Iraq war. For a service that is not really cheaper, the state accepts that the mercenary companies and their local actors will largely escape public control. It is Wulf's great merit not only to analyze soberly, but also to point out ways that lead from the state to the publicly controlled monopoly of force . The jury chairman of the Peter Becker Prize, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wagner, who is also the managing director of the Center for Conflict Research at the Philipps University, founded in 2001 .

Works (selection)

  • Afghanistan: a dead end war. (Eds. Johannes M. Becker and Herbert Wulf), Lit Verlag, Münster / Berlin, 2010. 224 pp., ISBN 978-3-643-10460-1 .
  • Overcoming Armed Violence in a Complex World. Essays in Honor of Herbert Wulf, (Eds. Michael Brzoska and Axel Krohn), Budrich UniPress, Opladen. 286 pp., ISBN 978-3-940755-33-9 .
  • Destroyed Iraq - the future of Iraq ?. (Eds. Johannes M. Becker and Herbert Wulf), Lit Verlag, Münster / Berlin, 2008, 289 pp., ISBN 978-3-8258-1200-3 .
  • North Korea's grab for the bomb. SWP, Berlin 2006.
  • Internationalization and Privatization of War and Peace. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005. 258 pages, ISBN 3-8329-1375-0 .
  • Internationalzing and Privatizing War and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2005.
  • Security sector reform in developing countries. Eschborn 2000.
  • Arms imports as technology transfer: the negative effects of arms imports on industrialization in peripheral countries. (= World Economy and International Relations , Volume 20), World Forum, Munich / London 1980, ISBN 3-8039-0181-2 ( Dissertation FU Berlin, Faculty 15 - Political Sciences, 1979, IV, 377 pages, graphic representation; under the title : Import of armaments technology and its effects on industrialization in peripheral countries ).
  • with Ulrich Albrecht, Peter Lock: Jobs through armaments - warning of false hopes. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-499-14266-X .

Awards (selection)

literature

See also

Johan Galtung , Ulrich Schneckener , Ernst-Otto Czempiel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philipps University awarded the Peter Becker Prize February 12, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace and conflict researcher, university professor for political science
DATE OF BIRTH 1939