CV
Education:
1990 - Dr. iur. habil.
1988 - Venia Legendi (Völkerrecht)
1977 - Dr. iur
1974 - University Degree, Lawyer
Employment History:
since 1990
Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr-University Bochum
1988
Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for International Law Heidelberg
1986
Associate Professor of International Law at the Institute for International Studies Leipzig, Director of Research
Internship at UNESCO, Department of Human Rights and Peace
1981-1982
Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
1989-1990
Research Fellow at the Institutes for International Law at the Universities of Munich (Prof. Simma) and Kiel (Prof. Delbrück)
1990-1992
Project Coordinator “Remote Sensing and European Security”, Ruhr-University Bochum
1974-1977
Research Assistant at the Institute for International Studies
Research Experience:
2006-2007
Research Project with the Austrian Peace Research Institute ”Alternative European Peace Policy”
2005-2006
Member of the German-French Expert Commission on Indigenous Cultures, nomited by the German federal Office
2004
Member of the Working Group “Commentary on the CoE Framwork Convention on National Minorities” (Head: M. Weller) funded by the VW Foundation
2005-2007
Co-Director of the Research Project “Post-Conflict Nation Building” funded by the German Peace Foundation
2000-2006
Co-operation with the Columbia University New York and the Government of the Peoples Republic of China on the topic “Ethnic Regional Autonomy”
1998
Participant in the Working Group “Autonomy: Applications and Implications” (Head: M. Suksi; Book)
1997-2000
Co-operation with the OSCE High Commission for National Minorities
1996-1999
Research Project “Minority Protection” with the Foundation Peace and Development (2 Books)
Since 1995
Editor of the “Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict”
1994
Research Project with the Hamburg Peace Research and Security Policy Institute on Self-Determination of Peoples (Book)
1992
Research Project with the German Research Society “Remote sensing and European Security” (Research report)