Walter Eberlei

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Walter Eberlei (* 1960 ) is a political scientist and holds a chair for political science at the University of Düsseldorf, as well as the head of the “Development Policy Research Center” there.

Life

Eberlei has been involved in development policy in research and teaching since the 1980s and as an employee, consultant and appraiser for development cooperation organizations . From 1999 to 2005 Eberlei was a research assistant at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen , and from 2003/2004 also a lecturer at the University of Zambia in Lusaka , Zambia . In 2005 he became professor for political science, with special consideration of international developments, at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (since 2015: University of Düsseldorf).

Thematic fields of research at Eberlei are global social developments, the role of civil society actors in Africa and international development cooperation. He also deals with the importance of human rights for social work in Germany.

Publications (selection)

  • Accountability in Poverty Reduction Strategies. The role of empowerment and participation. (= World Bank, Social Development Paper, 104). Washington DC 2007 ( download from World Bank website )
  • (as ed.): Stakeholder Participation in Poverty Reduction. (= INEF Report, 87). Duisburg 2007 Download from the INEF website (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  • Poverty as a global challenge. In: Huster, Boeckh, Mogge-Grotjahn (Hrsg.): Handbuch Armut. Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 589-604
  • Africa's ways out of the poverty trap . Frankfurt / M. 2009
  • (as ed.): Civil Society in Africa . Wiesbaden 2014
  • Civil Society and Development Regimes - Agenda-Setting and Regime-Building in the Post-2015 Process. In: Journal for Foreign and Security Policy, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2015), pp. 611–631, DOI: 10.1007 / s12399-015-0525-1 .
  • (together with Katja Neuhoff and Klaus Riekenbrauk) Human Rights - Compass for Social Work . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2018
  • (as ed.): Gravestones made by children. Child labor in quarries in the global south as a political challenge. Frankfurt / M .: Brandes & Apsel 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://soz-kult.web.fh-duesseldorf.de/forschung/forschungsaktivitaeten/einrichtungen/entwicklungspolitik
personal data
SURNAME Eberlei, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960