Wolfgang Dietrich

Who is Wolfgang Dietrich?

Wolfgang Dietrich is an Austrian peace researcher and political scientist. He is a member of the faculty of the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck/Austria, visiting professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna and the University for Peace in Costa Rica, as well as member of the faculty of the Centre for Peace and Development Studies at the University of Castellón/Spain.

He was educated in Austria and England, received a Ph.D. in history and literature at the University of Innsbruck in 1980 and a D.S.J. 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.

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.