Participants of the seminar

On February 2009 the participants of an international seminar on ‘Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management’ organised by the Leadership Academy of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation visited the IFSH. After an introduction into the importance and the different instruments of conflict prevention and the simulation of corresponding role games, the attendees coming from 22 different countries visited several institutions in Hamburg.

After lectures at the Helmut Schmidt University, the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the group also visited the IFSH together with Rolf Freier, Yasemin Pamuk and Thomas Hellmich. Here Dr Wolfgang Zellner presented the activities of the IFSH and CORE, Patricia Schneider introduced the Master of Peace and Security Studies, Anna Kreikemeyer gave an overview on CORE Capacity Building activities and former IFSH PhD fellows of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Elena Kropatcheva and Marietta Koenig, spoke on their PhD topics, the Russian policy towards Ukraine and conflict management by the UN in the Georgian conflicts respectively.

Contact: Dr. Anna Kreikemeyer