Tilman Evers

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Tilman Evers (2011)

Tilman Evers (born October 1, 1942 in Heidelberg ) is a German social scientist and freelance consultant in the field of development policy and conflict management.

Life

His father Hans Gerhard Evers was an art historian and university professor. In 1953, when he was ten, he went to school in Boston / USA for four months. As a schoolboy he was a member and later a group leader in a free youth organization ( Deutsche Freischar , renamed Jungenschaft im Bund, later Bund Deutscher Jungenschaften ). At the age of 19 he took over the editing of the magazineschrift , a series of publications by the Association of German Young Scientists.

After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science in Frankfurt, Tübingen and Würzburg and passed the first state examination in law in 1965. After a three-year study visit to Argentina as a scholarship holder of the Volkswagenwerk Foundation and as a research officer at the Institute for Ibero-American Studies, Hamburg, he received his doctorate in 1971 in Jura summa cum laude on military government in Argentina. Two years of research on Guatemala in Hamburg was followed by an assistant professorship in sociology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin from 1973 to 1981, with further research on and in Latin America. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in political science with a paper on the role of the state in the Third World and four years later in sociology. The Spanish edition of his post-doctoral thesis El estado en la periferia capitalista became a standard work in the Latin American state debate and saw several editions. Further academic work dealt with international social democracy and new social movements.

From 1982 to 1985 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation. 1985–1992 he worked as a director of studies at the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar and during this time was responsible for around 70 conferences in the areas of society, politics, law, social affairs, social psychology / social philosophy. From 1994 until the restructuring in 2002 he worked as a research assistant for political education at the German Evangelical Working Group for Adult Education (DEAE), Karlsruhe, later Frankfurt / M. After visiting professorships in the social sciences faculty at the Universities of Giessen and Vienna, Evers held lectures at the Austrian Peace University, Stadtschlaining, at the Academy for Conflict Transformation, Bonn, at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the World Peace University , Basel , from 2002 . In 2004 he acquired qualification certificates from the Center for Peacebuilding Research and Advice, Bern / Switzerland (Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment Systems) and from the Center for International Peace Operations , Berlin.

In 1982 Evers married the psychologist and sociologist Stefanie Spessart-Evers.

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Justice and peace are central issues for Evers. He deals with questions of culture and religion, philosophy and psychology. He does not understand politics and spirituality as opposites, but as poles and emphasizes the relevance of openness to learning, critical thinking and solidarity in the age of globalization. In all phases of his work he has published the results of his research and thinking. a. on Latin America, development theory and policy, the state, democracy, social psychology, social philosophy, federalism, European integration, civil conflict management. Several of his writings have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and / or English.

Evers was also a member of the “ Board of Trustees for a Democratic Federation of German States ”, the Board of Trustees of the Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung e. V. and from Mehr Demokratie e. V. and expert for citizen participation in the joint constitutional commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat. He was involved in the founding and work of the Chile Solidarity Committee, West Berlin (1973-1981), and the resulting Research and Documentation Center Chile-Latin America (FDCL), Berlin (founding chairman), Society for Development Education (1976 –1992), Network Peace Tax , since 1996 board member of Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e. V. (forum ZFD) and its chairman (2004–2010) as well as co-organizer and speaker of several symposia, Platform for Civil Conflict Management, European Network for Civil Peace Services (EN.CPS).

His related publications, including Civil Peace Service - Experts for Peace / Idea, Experiences, Goals, (Editing), and Encounter and Transform - On the Psychology of Peace Work , workbook of a conference cooperation of the Ev. Akademie Iserlohn, the International Doctors Against Nuclear War ( IPPNW ) and the Academy for Conflict Transformation , Bonn 2005 (editor) documented the rapid development of the Civil Peace Service (ZFD); In 2002/03 he was responsible for a feasibility study for an international project of the ZFD in Cyprus.

In addition to their professional activities, Evers and his wife are involved as co-directors on recurring cultural-historical study trips to the Cathedral of Chartres / France and have published on them.

Fonts (selection)

  • Civil rule in the third world. Elements of a theory of the state in economically underdeveloped social formations. European Publishing House, Cologne / Frankfurt 1977.
  • Myth and Emancipation. A critical approach to CG Jung. Junius, Hamburg 1987.
  • Popular sovereignty in the process. The constitutional discussion on direct democracy. In: From politics and current affairs. Supplement to the magazine “Das Parlament”, B 23/91 of May 31, 1991, pp. 3–15.
  • As editor: Chances of federalism in Germany and Europe. Nomos, Series Federalism Studies, Vol. 2, Baden-Baden 1994.
  • Supranational statehood using the example of the European Union: civitas civitatum or monster? In: Leviathan. Issue 1/1994, pp. 115–135, also in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Institut für Föderalismusforschung eV Hannover, Issue 3, December 1993, pp. 27–38.
  • Civil society. History of ideas irritations of a sympathy term. In: FR documentation. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 10, 1999, pp. 8-9, also in: Sozial Extra . No. 7/8 1999 pp. 2-4.
  • As editor: Civil Peace Service - Experts for Peace. Idea - experiences - goals. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000.
  • Working on Conflict. Civil Peace Service after six years. In: Ansgar Klein and Silke Roth (eds.): NGOs in the field of tension between crisis prevention and security policy. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 141–161, also as: work on conflicts. Civil Peace Service after six years. In: Ziviler Friedensdienst - 'Creating peace without weapons'. Dossier 52 of the journal Science and Peace. No. 2/2006, pp. 2-11.
  • Logos and Sophia. The King's Portal and the School of Chartres. Ludwig, Kiel 2011.
  • Politics and Purpose. Ideas for a civil society adult education. Edited by Andreas Seiverth. Waxmann-Verlag, Münster 2014.

Web links

Commons : Tilman Evers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Representation of the state of Lower Saxony at the federal government 03/2013, peace policy needs civil society: "Both speakers are proven experts: ... PD Dr. Tilmann Evers works as a political scientist as well as a peace and development policy advisor “u. a.
  2. ↑ Antiquarian offers “Schrift” 22–25 (editor Tilman Evers), Internet research, June 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ West German Social Democracy in Latin America - Offensive or Flight Forward? In: FDCL (Ed.): Social Democracy and Latin America. Berlin: Research and Documentation Center Chile-Latin America (FDCL), 1982, p. 15 ff.
  4. ^ "Sociologist and political scientist at the Free University of Berlin, Tilman Evers has conducted extensive research on development and urban movements in Latin America. His further topics include governance and participation, democracy, political psychology and history of political philosophy. Engaged in solidarity and in peace movements, he became a co-founder, board member and chairperson of Forum Civil Peace Service, Cologne, and co-founder of the European Network for Civil Peace Services (EN.CPS). Lecturer and author on Constructive Conflict Transformation, ia at the Academy of Conflict Transformation in Cologne and at the European Peace University EPU, Stadtschlaining / Austria. "
  5. ↑ About me. ( Memento of September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed May 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ ZB: Identity: The Hidden Side of New Social Movements in Latin America. In: David Slater (Ed.): New Social Movements and the State in Latin America. CEDLA, Amsterdam 1985, pp. 43-71.
    Publications. ( Memento of September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed May 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ Popular sovereignty in the process. The constitutional discussion on direct democracy. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . Supplement to the magazine Das Parlament, B 23/91 of May 31, 1991, p. 3 ff.
  8. ^ Otmar Jung: History, function, working method and composition of the Board of Trustees for More Democracy. In: Hermann K. Heussner, Roman Huber, Otmar Jung (ed.): The Board of Trustees for More Democracy. Berlin 2013, p. 51; see: Statement on the subject of citizen participation / plebiscites, submitted for public hearing as an expert before the Joint Constitutional Commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat on June 17, 1992. Bonn: Joint Constitutional Commission, Working Document 57, June 1992, also in: IDEE - Zeitschrift für Direkte Demokratie, Issue 15, Aug./Sept. 1992, pp. 10-20, also in: SOWI - Sozialwissenschaftliche Informations, Issue 4/1992, pp. 242-251.
  9. ^ Leske and Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Evers, Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and freelance consultant
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg