Martina Fischer (political scientist)

Martina Fischer (born December 26, 1958 ) is a German political scientist specializing in peace and conflict research.

Fischer studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate there with a dissertation on the relationship between the military and society in Spain. She has been working for the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research in Berlin since 1998 , an independent academic institution at the interface between conflict research and peace policy . From 2000 to 2011 she acted as the deputy head of their research facility (Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management). As program director, she is responsible for the Berghof Foundation's Southeast Europe projects. She is also co-editor of the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation . Her main topics include "peacebuilding" and "dealing with the past in post-war societies". She has published or (co-) edited more than ten books and 200 specialist articles.

From 2001 to 2011 she was a member of the board of trustees of the German Foundation for Peace Research and was also a member of the executive board for five years. Since then she has been advising DSF as a member of the scientific advisory board. She is also a member of the presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress ( DEKT ).

Martina Fischer lives in Berlin.

Fonts

• Spain's unloved military. Legitimacy Deficits: Public Opinion, Protest Movements, and the Reactions of the Military Apparatus (1982-1992). Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• (Ed.): Vanishing point Europe. Migration and multiculturalism. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998.
• with Alex Austin , Norbert Ropers (ed.): Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict. The Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Opladen 2004.
• (Ed.): Peacebuilding and Civil Society in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ten Years after Dayton. LIT, 2007.
• with Volker Rittberger (Ed.): Strategies for Peace. Contributions of International Organizations, States and Non-State Actors. Opladen & Farmington Hills 2008.
• with Beatrix Austin , Hans J. Giessmann (eds.): Advancing Conflict Transformation: The Berghof Handbook II (The Berghof Conflict Research). Budrich, 2011.
• Peace services. In: Hans J. Giessmann, Bernhard Rinke (Ed.): Handbook Peace. VS, Wiesbaden 2011, pp. 125f.

Technical article

• On the importance of gender approaches in dealing with ethnopolitical conflicts. In: Peace Policy and Peace Research. Osnabrück Yearbook Peace and Science VIII / 2001, University of Osnabrück , ISBN 3-935326-49-1 . (PDF; 13.6 MB) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martina Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berghof Foundation, employee page
2. ↑ Berghof Handbook of Conflict Transformation, background, editorial team
3. ↑ German Foundation for Peace Research, Scientific Advisory Board ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 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. 
4. ↑ German Evangelical Church Congress, The Presidium ( Memento of the original from July 5, 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.