Background
Sybille Reinke de Buitrago studied International
Affairs, Peace Research, Conflict Resolution
and International Communication at American
University in Washington, DC. She earned a Bachelor
of Arts in 1998 and a Master of Arts in 2000,
with excellence. During her studies she focused
on the nexus of international politics, conflicts
and their solution, and intercultural communication.
In her master thesis she examined the differences
in identity and culture between East and West
Germans. From 1991 to 1992 she received a scholarship
from the German Bundestag to study one year
in Virginia, U.S. Later Sybille Reinke de Buitrago
worked as project assistant for international
projects on conflict resolution and democratization,
among others at Search for Common Ground and
the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington,
DC. In addition, she designed and conducted
trainings in intercultural communication, perception
and conflict resolution.
As scholarship recipient from the Cusanuswerk
she conducted her dissertation from October
2006 until September 2009 and defended it in
the beginning of 2010. In her dissertation she
examined threat perceptions in German and American
security policy from a constructivist perspective.
Currently, she is developing a project on security
conceptions on the multilateral level, in which
she uses regional case studies to analyze evolving
multilateral understandings of security.
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French
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Contact
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
D-20144 Hamburg
Telefon: +49 (0)40-866077-65
Telefax: +49 (0)40-866 36 15
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