Team Germany brings together academics from the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate and practicioners.
The Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
The Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate – Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management, works at the interface between peace research and peace education, combining research, knowledge transfer, teaching, and training activities. The Peace Academy is a central part of interdisciplinary collaboration related to the study of peace and conflict at the University Koblenz-Landau. Its research foci center on causes and consequences of international and internal conflicts, notably the theory and practice of crisis prevention and civil conflict management.
For more information, visit https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/en/peace-academy
Jun. Prof. Dr. Janpeter Schilling, Managing Director of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Janpeter Schilling is the Managing Director of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, Junior Professor for landuse conflicts at the University of Koblenz-Landau and an associated researcher at the Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) where he used to be a postdoctoral scientist. Schilling works on conflicts, human security, landuse, resource use, climate change, vulnerability, adaptation, sustainability, development and migration. His regional focus includes eastern, northern and southern Africa as well as South Asia. Janpeter Schilling is also an Associate at the peacebuilding organization International Alert.
Melanie Hussak, Researcher at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Melanie Hussak studied political science as well as economics at the University of Vienna. She holds a postgraduate degree in “Interdisciplinary Conflict Analysis and Conflict Resolution” from the University of Basel. Her dissertation focuses on the diversity of cultural interpretations of peace and thereby interconnected practices and methods of conflict transformation. She has completed several advanced training courses on trauma-recovering and conflict transformation. Presently she is completing a certificate in process-oriented facilitation following the method of Arnold Mindell (Worldwork). Before joining the Peace Academy RLP Melanie Hussak worked at the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Burg Schlaining and as a trainer for children, young people and teachers in Austria and Switzerland. She co-founded the association “living peace” which won the “Social Award” of the Bank Austria for innovation and social commitment. One of her school projects was also awarded by the Austrian Ministry for Education and Women.
Dr. Ulrike Zeigermann, Associate Fellow Peace Academy and Senior Researcher at University of Magdeburg
Dr. Ulrike Zeigermann is a senior researcher at the Department for Political Science and Sustainable Development of the University of Magdeburg, associate researcher at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate of the University Koblenz-Landau, and fellow at the French-German Marc Bloch Research Centre for Social Sciences (CMB) of the Humboldt University Berlin working in the research group “Crisis and Constitution of Social Order”. She is interested in the analysis of public policies and the transfer of norms, policies and ideas for sustainable development in shared societies. Ulrike holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Münster (2017). From 2015 to 2017 she co-managed the research group “Public Policy and Knowledge Circulation” at the CMB. She received her MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a double diploma degree in Political Science/European Studies from Sciences Po Lille and the University of Münster.
Dr. Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer, PhD in Classical Archeology and Portuguese Philology at the University of Trier
Dr. Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer has been the Chairwoman of the Foreigners Advisory Council since 1994 and member of the City Council of Trier since 1999. She studied Economics at the ISCEF (Higher Institute of Economic and Financial Sciences) University of Lisbon, and holds a PhD in Classical Archeology and Portuguese Philology from the University of Trier. From 1986 to 2007 she was an official at the European Parliament. She is a member and principal investigator of the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University NOVA of Lisbon, and scientific coordinator for the international project RoGeMoPorTur. Since her arrival in Trier 1976 she has been dedicated to the promotion of cultural diversity, the prevention of ethnic conflicts within the host society and the fight against discrimination and xenophobia. For her commitment she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) of Germany (2012), the Order of Merit (Medal) of the Portuguese Communities (1999) as well as the Gold Pin of the Caritas Germany (2002).