Karsten Weitzenegger's Page

What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

Peace work was my entry to development work.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)

Karsten Weitzenegger is a political scientist specialising in international development cooperation. He is an expert on developing participatory organisational changes in the field of social and economic policy. His work has focused on institution building for financial and non-financial business development services, ownership and governance issues, and also investment and export promotion activities or products from developing and transition countries.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise

Afghanistan, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Malaysia, Moldova, Nicaragua, The Philippines, Poland, Romania, São Tomé & Príncipe, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay.

What is your current country of residence?

Germany

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

Consultant

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://use.weitzenegger.de

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.weitzenegger.de/en/websites.html

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://weitzenegger.de/en/links.html

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Development, Information and Communication Technology, Media, Organizational Development, Social Entreprenuership

Which are your primary skills areas?

Capacity Building, Evaluation, Monitoring, Program Design, Research, Training

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

Migration and Development (Brain Gain)