program Jury for the topic of “Human rights in Past and Present”, 2012 / 2013

Dr. Hannelore Chiout: Founder and former chair of the European training network for democracy and human rights, DARE. Engaged in projects promoting democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2008.

Dr. Matthias Heyl: Studies in History, Psychology and Education; Ph.D. on the topic of education after Auschwitz. Director of the Ravensbrück International Youth Meeting Centre and the Information and Educational Services of the Ravensbrück Memorial.
New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Jörg Lange: Studies in History, German, Catholic Theology, Geography and Education at the University of Muenster; Ph.D. on concentration camp memorials in Germany. Member of the “Human Rights Education Workshop”, fellow at the Max Weber Center in the post-graduate program “Human Dignity and Human Rights”.
New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Christine Mähler: Studies in Psychology; director of ConAct in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Expert on Israel and extracurricular youth encounters.
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2005.

Anne Thiemann: Studies in Social Work; Master of Social Work on “Social Work as a Human Rights Profession”. Youth educator on the topic of gender and sexual identity, and researcher at the German Institute for Human Rights on the project “Human rights education with children and adolescents”.
New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Avi Blumenfeld: Study of history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilian university in Munich (LMU). Chairman of the historical committee of the Claims Conference and research assistant at the Joseph Carlebach Institute (JCI). New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Prof. Dr. Doron Kiesel: Lecturer at the College of Higher Education in Erfurt, specialization in the theory of social work/social pedagogy with specific focus on intercultural aspects of social work. New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Darius Polok: Slavic studies, philosophy and German philology; former lecturer of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Bydgoszcz (Poland) and speaker at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Potsdam. Director/Manager of the MitOst e.V. and Head of the program “Cultural Manager from Central and Eastern Europe”. New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Dr. Axel Doßmann: Historian, scientific assistant at the chair in “history in media and public”, Institute for history at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. In addition freelance journalist and author at EUSTORY amongst others. Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury 2009 and 2012.

Gemma Pörzgen: Freelance journalist, academic studies in politics, Slavic studies and Eastern European history, correspondent for Southeast Europe in Belgrade, correspondent for the Middle East in Israel, media counsel for “Uzbekistan Press Freedom Group”, “Grenzgänger”-scholarship holder of the Robert-Bosch-Foundation with a book project. Voluntary commitment as board member at “reporters without borders” and active member at “Freischreiber”. New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Dr. Karlheinz Dürr: Head of division “Europe” at the Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg. New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

program Jury for the topic of “Human rights in Past and Present”, 2011 / 2012

Oxana Ivanova-Chessex
Studies in Education and German Studies in Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. Member of the Civic Engagement Institute in Perm, Russia.
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2008.

Dr. Hannelore Chiout
Founder and former chair of the European training network for democracy and human rights, DARE. Engaged in projects promoting democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2008.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Fritzsche
Studies in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Chair in Human Rights Education at the University of Magdeburg.
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2010.

Dr. Matthias Heyl
Studies in History, Psychology and Education; Ph.D. on the topic of education after Auschwitz. Director of the Ravensbrück International Youth Meeting Centre and the Information and Educational Services of the Ravensbrück Memorial.
New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Dr. Peter Kirchschläger
Studies in Theology, Jewish Studies and Philosophy in Lucerne, Rome and Jerusalem. Founder and co-director of the Centre for Human Rights Education (ZMRB) of the PHZ Lucerne, and co-director of the International Human Rights Forum Lucerne (IHRF).
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2010.

Jörg Lange
Studies in History, German, Catholic Theology, Geography and Education at the University of Muenster; Ph.D. on concentration camp memorials in Germany. Member of the “Human Rights Education Workshop”, fellow at the Max Weber Center in the post-graduate program “Human Dignity and Human Rights”.
New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.

Christine Mähler
Studies in Psychology; director of ConAct in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Expert on Israel and extracurricular youth encounters.
Member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury since 2005.

Anne Thiemann
Studies in Social Work; Master of Social Work on “Social Work as a Human Rights Profession”. Youth educator on the topic of gender and sexual identity, and researcher at the German Institute for Human Rights on the project “Human rights education with children and adolescents”.
New member of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE Jury.