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 |
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
- Case Study: Guarantees of Pluralism in the Constitution of the 'Repbulic of the Union of Myanmar, 2013
- Democratic Dawn? Civil Society and Elections in Myanmar 2010-2012, 2012
- Stärkung der strategischen Kompetenz der EU durch Ausbildung für Peacebuilding und Security Sector Reform, 2010
- Peace, Conflict, and Identity Social Anthropological Explorations on Continuities and Ruptures between Conflict, Post-conflict, and Peace, 2010
- Ohne Aussicht auf Erfolg? Wie kann man Frauen in Konfliktgebieten helfen?, 2010
- Pilot Course on Security Sector Reform (SSR), 2009
- Champa, Islam und long-distance nationalism: Identitätskonstruktionen von Cham in Vietnam und der Diaspora, 2009
- Women in Armed Conflict Pilot Specialisation Course of the International Civilian Peace-keeping and Peace-building Training Program, 2008
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





