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Michael Lidauer

Michael Lidauer


Research Associate
RD: Governance and Societal Peace
e-Mail: lidauerNoeSPAM@ thanx-for-not-spamming! hsfk.de

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Biography

1994 - 2002

Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology with a combination of secondary subjects (Psychology, Education, Religion) at the University of Vienna, Austria

1999 - 2000

ERASMUS term at the Institut for Antropologi, Copenhagen

2000 - 2002

Oriental Studies at the Austrian Oriental Society Hammer Purgstall (ÖOG/HP)

2003 - 2004

OSCE Mission in Georgia, Border Monitoring Operations
Short Term Election Observation (OSCE/ ODIHR) in Azerbaijan and Georgia
Short Term Election Observation (EU) in Indonesia

2005 - 2007

Long Term Election Observation (EU) in Ethiopia, Liberia, Uganda, Mauretania, and Bangladesh

2007 - 2009

Research Associate at the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) in Stadtschlaining: Coordinator of Trainings for Crisis Regions

2009

Director of the ASPR-Project on Security Sector Reform and Peacebuilding in collaboration with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports

since 2009

PhD Candidate in the Cluster of Excellence on “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe-University Frankfurt

2010

Core Team EU Election Observation Mission in Sudan 2010: Deputy Observer Coordinator (Juba)

since 2011

Research Associate at PRIF

Further Affiliations and Activities

  • Board member of PACSA (Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology), a network of EASA (European Association for Social Anthropologists) (since 2009)

Selected Publications

Consulting on

  • Southeast Asia
  • Democratization and democracy support
  • Anthropological fieldwork in crisis regions
  • Elections, election observation and assistance
  • Training of civilian personnel for crisis regions
  • Peacebuilding