Peace Studies and Human Development Advisor:
Nicole Birtsch

Nationality: German
Tel: +93 (0) 798 452 997
E-Mail: NicoleBirtsch@gmx.de

Education - Qualifications

1993 – 2001      University of Cologne and Charles University Prague
                          Master of Arts (Triple Majors: German Literature, Art History, Sociology)
                          Cologne

Special Coursework
Courses and Projects in
• Conflict Resolution Management and Peace Building
• Human Rights
• Conflict Transformation
• Transitional Justice and DDR
• Intercultural Communication and Mediation

Work Experience
Since Summer 2008       Peace Building and Human Development Advisor
                                       Appointment through German Development Service (DED), Bonn
                                       Assignment: National Centre for Policy Research, University Kabul
2007 – 2008                   Project Assistant at Working Group for Peace Development (FriEnt), Germany in the Field of Peace                                        Building and Transitional Justice
Summer 2002 to 2007   Lecturer for German Language, Culture and History
                                       Appointment through: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn
                                       Assignment: University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
1999 – 2001                   Student Assistant and Scholarly Assistant in Research Project: "New Patterns of Documentation of                                        Contemporary Art“, University of Cologne
2001 – 2002                   Assistant at Marketing Company Assenmacher Network Inc., Cologne
1998 – 2000                   Lecturer at the Junior College Cologne
                                       Courses taught: Fundamentals in Business, Politics and IT

Publications

"Attempts at an Orientation in the Nobody’s Land Between Medizine and Poetry. The Relation Between the Body’s Memory and Poetry in Texts of Durs Gruenbein". In: Oliver Kohns, Martin Roussel (Hg.): Einschnitte. Identität in der Moderne. Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg 2007

“Strategies of Repression in the Process of Remembering. The Voice of a Perpetrator in Marcel Beyer’s Novel Flughunde. In: Carsten Gansel, Pawel Zimniak (Hg.): Reden und Schweigen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945. Neisse Verlag 2006

"Writing about Non-experienced History: The Description of Flight and Displacement in the German Contemporary Literature for Example the Novel Niemandszeit of Joerg Bernig. In: ORBIS LINGUARUM 27/2004, Wrocław, Poland 2004

Exilclub: Czechs and Germans. Interactive E-learning project, www.exil-club.de