Jochen Hippler
Jochen HIPPLER is Senior Researcher at INEF since 2000. He was professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 2003 to 2005 and received his post-doctoral “habilitation” in International Relations in 2005. From 1993 to 1995 Jochen Hippler was Director of the Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam. He is co-chairperson of NAVEND. From 1991 to 1999 he was a contributing editor to the “Middle East Report” (MERIP) in Washington. Furthermore, he is advisor to the German Foreign Office, the Ministry for Development Cooperation and the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations on topics of violent conflict and Western-Muslim dialogue. His main areas of research and publications are: conflict and political violence in the Middle East and Central/South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Turkey/Kurdish question), military interventions and post-conflict nation-building, political Islam, political culture and identity in the processes of regional conflict and globalization. Jochen Hippler is co-editor of the prestigious yearly “Peace Report”. Among his recent publications are: War, Repression, Terrorism – Political Violence and Civilization in Western and Muslim Societies (2005); Islam and Violence (in German), in: B. Menke et al (eds.); Kulturelle Vielfalt – Diskurs um die Demokratie, Schwalbach (2006); “Civil Society, State, and New Conflicts Expectations and Challenges for a Civilian Peace Service” (in German), in: Konsortium Ziviler Friedensdienst: Mehr Frieden Wagen, Bonn (2006). He is also editor of Nation-Building – A Key Concept for Peaceful Conflict Transformation?, London (2005). Forthcoming is his book From Morocco to Afghanistan – War and Peace in the Broader Middle East (German edition 2007, English edition 2008).