Conferences and Teaching
Main Conferences:
2007
Conference “One Country, Two Systems, Three Legal Orders” - Perspectives of Evolution, Organized by the Macau S.A.R. Government in the Framework of the EU-Macau Cooperation Programme in the Legal Field. Titel of my Presentation: “Autonomy and Federalism: Which Evolution?”
2003
Podium discussion on ” Welchen Schutz brauchen Journalisten im Krieg?”, 6th Forum on Global Issues organised by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin
Presentation on ” Internationale Verrechtlichungsprozesse” at the Foundation “Entwicklung und Frieden” in Berlin
Presentation on “human rights standards, international humanitarian law and refugee law” at the First Central Asian scientific and practical workshop “Implementation and Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law in Central Asia” organised by the ICRC in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2002
Expert discussion on “Die Minderheitenpolitik im EU-Erweiterungsprozess”, Foundation “Wissenschaft und Politik”, in Berlin
International Seminar on Autonomist and Integrationist Approaches to Minority Protection; organized in cooperation with the UN Working Group on Minorities by the Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Uppsala Workshop on Regional Autonomy, Uppsala (Sweden)
2001
International Workshop on regional Autonomy of Ethnic Minorities, Beijing, organized by the Columbia University and the Chinese Commission on Ethnic Affairs
Workshop on Conflict Resolution, University of Namibia, Windhoek
2000
A Century of Killing: Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century; University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Participation as Representative of the German Foreign Office
1999
Expert Meeting of the OSCE-High Commissioner on National Minorities on the Lund Recommendation on Effective Participation in Lund (Participant); Co-author of the Lund Recommendations by the Foundation on Inter-Ethnic Relations, The Hague
1993
UN World Conference on Human Rights (Participant of the NGO-Conference)
1989
UN Expert Meeting on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Participant)
1988
UNESCO Conference on the Teaching of Human Rights
1981
Observer to the 36th General Assembly of the United Nations
International and Other Teaching Experience:
2005
Lecture on Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law, Postgraduacao “Lato Sensu”, Direito Internacional dos Conflitos Armados, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Lectures in the European Master Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
Lecture in the Master Programme Peace and Security, Hamburg, Germany
Lectures on International Humanitarian Law, German Red Cross, Germany
2004
Lecture on Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law, Postgraduacao “Lato Sensu”, Direito Internacional dos Conflitos Armados, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Lectures in the European Masters Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
Judge at the Central Asian Moot Court in International Humanitarian Law in Bishkek, Kyrgistan
Teaching in the Training Programmes of the German Foreign Office for International Missions
Lectures on International Humanitarian Law, German Red Cross, Germany
2003
Lecture on Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law, Postgraduacao “Lato Sensu”, Direito Internacional dos Conflitos Armados,University of Brasilia, Brazil
Teaching International Humanitarian Law in South-East European Master in Human Rightsm, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Lectures in the European Masters Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
Teaching in the European Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, Italy
Series of lectures for a gorup of University Professors from Iraq on “International Law and the Iraq War”
Teaching in the Training Programmes of the German Foreign Office for International Missions
Lectures on International Humanitarian Law, German Red Cross, Germany
2002
Judge at the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court, German Competition
Teaching International Humanitarian Law in South-East European Master in Human Rightsm, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
OSCE Mission Preparation Training Specialization Course in Schlaining
1st Utrecht Network Summer School “Human Rights”, Bologna, Italy
Teaching in the Training Programmes of the German Foreign Office for International Missions
Lectures in the European Masters Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
Teaching in the Training Programmes of the German Foreign Office for young diplomats from newly democratic states
2001
Participation: International Training Programme for Conflict Management: Training the Trainers, Scoula Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pisa
Teaching International Humanitarian Law in Tashkent (ICRC Course)
Teaching International Humanitarian Law in South-East European Master in Human Rightsm, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Teaching in the European Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, Italy
Lectures in the European Masters Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
2000
Lectures in the European Masters Programme in Human Rights and Democratization, Venice, Italy
Lectures in the EU Piboes Programme
Lectures in the European Masters Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
Teaching in the Training Programmes of the German Foreign Office for International Missions; Teaching in the Training Programmes of the German Foreign Office for young diplomats from newly democratic states
1999
Lectures in Ashgabad (International Humanitarian Law Course of the ICRC for Central Asia)
Lectures in the European Masters Programme in Human Rights and Democratization, Venice, Italy
Lectures in the European Masters Programme on Humanitarian Assistance, Bochum, Germany
Lectures in the EU Piboes Programme
1998
Lectures: European Masters Program in Human Rights and Democratisation
1995
Lectures in Moscow (International Humanitarian Law Course of the ICRC for Former USSR)
1991
Lectures in Warsaw (International Humanitarian Law Course of the ICRC)