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Wolfgang Dietrich (political scientist)


Wolfgang Dietrich (born 13 September 1956 in Tyrol) is an Austrian peace researcher and political scientist. He is UNESCO Chairholder and director of the MA program for Peace Studies at University of Innsbruck/Austria and visiting professor on many Universities around the world, including the University of Cambridge, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace and the University of Vienna. He is the founder of the Innsbruck School of Peace Studies, a groundbreaking epistemological approach to Peace and Conflict Research in the 21st century.

Dietrich was educated in Austria and England, received a Ph.D. in history and literature at the University of Innsbruck/Austria, in 1980 and a LL.D. at the same University in 1984. In 1990 he was promoted to the degree of "Universitätsdozent" in Political Science according to the Austrian Law of Higher Education (UOG).

Wolfgang Dietrich has spent most of the 1980s in Central America. He was president of the Austrian section of Amnesty International from 1989 to 1991. In the 1990s he did field research in Latin America and the Caribbean, India, Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia. He was director of the European Peace University from 1995 to 1998 and academic director of the Austrian Institute for Latin America from 1995 to 2007. Currently he is program director of the MA Program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, as well as Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies at the same university and member of the Austrian UNESCO commission.


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