Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl: Curriculum Vitae - HUMSEC

International Summer Academy 

on Human Security 

Graz, 15-25 July 2007 

CVs LECTURERS 

Hans-Jörg Albrecht .................................................................................................................... 2 

Wolfgang Benedek..................................................................................................................... 2 

Nicholas Dorn ............................................................................................................................ 3 

Drew Engel................................................................................................................................. 3 

Walter Gehr................................................................................................................................3 

Anna-Maria Getoš...................................................................................................................... 4 

Jean Luc Gobin........................................................................................................................... 4 

Karl-Heinz Grundböck............................................................................................................... 4 

Georgios Kolliarakis .................................................................................................................. 5 

Almir Maljevic ........................................................................................................................... 5 

Ledina Mandija .......................................................................................................................... 5 

Valon Murati .............................................................................................................................. 6 

Gerd Oberleitner......................................................................................................................... 6 

Iztok Prezelj................................................................................................................................6 

Barbara Schmiedl ....................................................................................................................... 7 

Maddalena Vivona ..................................................................................................................... 7 

Franziska Walter ........................................................................................................................ 8 

Ralph Zettl.................................................................................................................................. 8 

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The HUMSEC project is supported by the European Commission 

under the Sixth Framework Programme "Integrating and 

Strengthening the European Research Area”.

Hans-Jörg Albrecht 

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International 

Criminal Law in Freiburg. His research interests cover various legal, 

criminological and policy topics ranging from sentencing theory, juvenile 

crime, drug policies, environmental crime and organized crime, 

evaluation research and systems of criminal sanctions. From 1977 to 

1991 he was researcher fellow at the MPI. In 1991 he accepted an offer 

to lecture criminal law and criminology at the Law Faculty of the 

University of Konstanz. In 1993 he was offered the chair for criminal 

law, juvenile criminal law and criminology at the University of Dresden 

where he stayed until 1997. In 1996 he was elected as director of the 

MPI. Hans-Jörg Albrecht was given the status of guest professor at the Center for Criminal 

Law and Criminal Justice of the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (April 

2000); Law Faculty of the University of Hainan (April 2001); Law Faculty of Renmin 

University (January 2004); Law Faculty of Wuhan University (May 2005). In May 2003 he 

was conferred “Life Membership” from Clare Hall College, University Cambridge/UK. In 

May 2004 he was granted the University of Teheran professorship and permanent faculty 

membership of the Faculty of Law of Qom High Education Center, Teheran. In March 2005, 

the Law Faculty of the University of Pécs/Hungary awarded him the honorary doctorate. Email 

address: h.j.albrecht@mpicc.de 

Wolfgang Benedek 

Professor of International law at the Karl Franzens University of Graz. 

His main research fields include the implementation of international 

human rights in particular at regional and local level, human rights 

education, the legal system of the WTO, human security in particular in 

relation to human rights and post-conflict situations and counterterrorism 

with special focus on South Eastern Europe and Africa. Since 2000 he is 

director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights 

and Democracy in Graz (ETC). As chairman of World University Service 

(WUS) Austria he developed programmes for the reconstruction of 

universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. 

He played a major role in the establishment of Human Rights Centres in South Eastern 

Europe (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Prishtina, Podgorica). Wolfgang Benedek is member of the 

German Association of International Law, the Austrian Völkerrechtstag and the International 

Law Association, the European Community Studies Association (ECSA) as well as member 

of the Advisory Board for Human Rights of the Ministry of Interior. E-mail address: 

wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at 

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Nicholas Dorn 

Criminologist, Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam for 

Contemporary Security Policies. He is also Research Fellow at Cardiff 

University and is a UK independent research contractor. He has a PhD 

Sociology (Kent), MA Criminology (Middlesex) and BSc Psychology 

(London). He has directed and participated in many European research 

studies on serious crime and its evolution in response to administrative, 

regulatory and criminal law controls. Publications include Dorn and 

Levi, 2007, ‘European private security, corporate investigation and 

military services: collective security, market regulation and structuring 

the public sphere’, Policing and Society (contact authors for date of publication). His 2006 

work focused on: private-public partnership on crime and terrorism, for EC-DG-JLS; 

European strategic intelligence and risk assessment, corporate crime and (self-)regulation, 

public procurement risks, and other topics, for EC-6thRF projects MARC and IKOC; and 

review of methodology for scanning licit sectors for criminal vulnerabilities, for Ghent 

University. 

Drew Engel 

Works as an International Prosecutor at the Special Department for 

Organized Crime (SDOC) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He holds 

degrees from the University of Dayton School of Law and the 

Miami University, Oxford. Mr. Engel worked for the Office of the 

High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the anti- 

Crime and Corruption Unit. Over the last years he has also worked 

as a general practitioner defending Criminal cases, litigating Civil cases, negotiating pleas and 

settlements, writing trial and appellate level briefs and motions. He has also published several 

articles for journals as the Annual Journal of Court Experts and the California Bar Journal. Email 

address: Drew.Engel@tuzilastvobih.gov.ba 

Walter Gehr 

was born in Vienna in 1962, lived in France for nine years and after returning 

to Austria attended the Lycée Francaise de Vienne. In 1985 he graduated from 

the University of Vienna where he had studied law. He started his career at the 

Foreign Ministry in 1989 and was promoted to vice-executive of the general 

Public International Law Branch. He is further head of the Unit on 

International Economic- and Environmental Law within the Public 

International Law Branch since 1997. 

Mr. Gehr was elected head of the 1999 assembly of member states of the International 

Development Law Organisation (IDLO), and in the years 2000 and 2001 he has been member 

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of the Austrian delegation to the law committee (committee nr. 6) of the UN General 

Assembly. 

Anna-Maria Getoš 

studied in Zagreb and at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, 

Germany. She worked for the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of 

Croatia, for the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal 

Law and is currently employed at the Law School Zagreb. Her research 

interests are criminology, defence and security, phenomenology and roots of 

terrorism, hate crimes and organised political violence in post-conflict 

societies, comparative analysis of different law regulations regarding to hate 

crimes (USA, Germany, Canada and Great Britain) and developing 

recommendations for relevant future data collection in Croatia and South Eastern Europe. Email 

address: A.Getos@iuscrim.mpg.de. 

Jean Luc Gobin 

Is Deputy Chief AOCD of The European Union Police Mission in Sarajevo. He was the 

Second In Command in a crime squad for three years (2001-2004), supervising 32 criminal 

investigators dealing with major cases. Prior to that, he was Deputy Commander of a 

significant battalion located in Corsica (1998-2001), where he was in charge of the Criminal 

Investigation Department. From 1994 to 1998, he was a superintendent in a particular district 

in France where his work consisted of fighting against criminality. Furthermore, he has 

experience in international missions (Central African Republic, Western Sahara and 

Cambodia) as a military observer. 

Karl-Heinz Grundböck 

is Deputy Head of Police Academy Vienna since 2006. He is Dean for the 

B.A.-Study Programme in Police Leadership of the Public University of 

Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (Austria). From 2004 to 2006 he was 

resident Advisor to the Turkish National Police (EU-Accession Programme, 

contracted by Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute of Human Rights, Vienna) 

Ankara, Turkey. Since 2004 he contributes to the EU Accession 

programmes such as the Croatian Code of Criminal Procedure, the Polish 

Anti-Discrimination Program and the Turkey, and Czech Republic Human 

Trafficking Combat program and since 2003 he gives Human rights training and lectures. Email 

adress: karlheinz.grundboeck@fhwn.ac.at. 

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Georgios Kolliarakis 

Studied engineering at the Technical University of Athens, technical 

translation at the Institute of Linguists in London, and political geography 

at the University of Bonn. In his thesis he focused on the role of space in 

practices and theories of risk in international relations. His interests 

comprise sociology of technology and its contribution to the study of 

strategic and security affairs. He is currently conducting research on the 

spatial organization of violent asymmetric conflict in the Department of 

International Politics at the University of Munich. E-mail address: 

RabbitDuck@gsi.uni-muenchen.de. 

Almir Maljevic 

Works as Senior lecturer of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Criminal 

Justice Sciences, University of Sarajevo. He graduated from the Faculty 

of Criminal Justice sciences, University of Sarajevo in 2000. At the very 

beginning of 2005 he got his LL M in Criminal Law from the School of 

Law, University of Mostar, where he publicly defended his master thesis 

titled “Provisions of European and Other International Conventions on 

Organized Crime – With a Special Emphasis on Guilt and Punishment 

of Perpetrators”. He has published in both Bosnian and English language 

and he participated in numerous national and comparative international research projects. Email 

address: AMaljevic@fknbih.edu 

Ledina Mandija 

Graduated in Law at the University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi” and 

received the license to exercise advocacy in 1999. In 2005 she completed a 

Master in Civil Law at the Faculty of Tirana. Since 1996 she has been head of 

the department and lecturer for Family Law, Procedural Civil Law and NPO 

law at the University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi”. She was also consultant 

and trainer in the TEMPUS project: a European space of justice, which 

involved partners from Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, 

Montenegro and other European countries. E-mail address: 

ledinamandia@yahoo.com. 

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Valon Murati 

is a Director of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Prishtina. 

He attended the Experimental College for Human Studies at the Center 

for Humanistic Studies “Gani Bobi” in Prishtina (2000 – 2001) with final 

essay on the “Reactions of some European states towards the struggle for 

self-determination of some people: Bask, Northern Ireland and Albanian 

Case”. In June 2002 he graduated from the Faculty of Economy, 

University of Prishtina, with a final thesis on “Kosova and European 

Union: EU investments in Kosova – 1999-2002”. In 2004 Mr. Murati 

completed the European Regional Master’s Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South 

East Europe at the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna with the masters thesis: “Poverty and 

Development: Possibilities and Obstacles in Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural 

Rights”. E-mail address: valon.murati@gmail.com. 

Gerd Oberleitner 

Is lecturer at the Institute of International Law and International 

Relations at the University of Graz. He holds a PhD in law and has 

lectured international law and international human rights law at the 

University of Graz, human rights courses, summer schools at other 

universities, and web-based distance learning courses. From 1998 to 

1999 he worked at the Human Rights Department of the Austrian 

Foreign Ministry. In 1999 he co-founded the European Training Centre 

for Human Rights and Democracy (ETC) in Graz and worked as the 

Centre’s Executive Secretary until 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he was the 

Lecturer in Human Rights at the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, where he 

taught in the MSc Human Rights programme. His research interests are UN human rights 

system, minority and social rights, international humanitarian law, the African and European 

human rights system, human security, and the role of non-state actors. E-mail address: 

gerd.oberleitner@uni-graz.at. 

Iztok Prezelj 

Is senior research fellow and assistant professor at the Faculty of Social 

Sciences, University of Ljubljana. He is coordinator of several research 

projects, such as Security and Cooperation in SEE (2006-2008), Definition 

and protection of critical infrastructure in Slovenia (2006-2008), Modelling 

the national threat assessment (2004-2006) and Shaping the national crisis 

management system in Slovenia (2004-2006). His research interests include: 

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national security, crisis management, terrorism & counter-terrorism, threat & risk 

assessments, interagency cooperation, international security, South-Eastern Europe. 

Dr. Prezelj was also member of two governmental interagency working groups: 

Governmental Interagency Working Group on Addressing Terrorist Threats and Attacks with 

WMD (2003-2005), Governmental Interagency Working Group on Shaping the 

Comprehensive Crisis Management System in Slovenia (2004 – 2005). E-mail address: 

iztok.prezelj@fdv.uni-lj.si. 

Barbara Schmiedl 

Studied German language and literature, history, pedagogy and women's 

studies at the University of Graz and acquired additional qualifications as 

teacher for German as a foreign language, translator and trainer for 

various programmes in the field of human rights and democracy 

education, conflict management and tolerance education. Starting as a 

teacher of German, since the early 1990s she worked in different 

organisations for the support and integration of refugees and migrants, 

from 1996 to 2001 as lecturer and educational coordinator in Zagreb / 

Croatia. In November 2001 Barbara Schmiedl joined the ETC where she 

is heading the training department; since mid-2006 she is also responsible for programmes 

and public relations. E-mail address: Barbara.Schmiedl@etc-graz.at. 

Maddalena Vivona 

Is PhD student at the Karl Franzens University of Graz. She completed her 

studies in law at the Universitá degli Studi di Parma (Italy) with a thesis on 

"Torture, inhuman and degrading treatment in the jurisprudence of the 

European Court of Human Rights". In 2004 she completed the court 

internship at the Court of Appeals Graz. Since 2003 she is working at the 

ETC Graz, taking care mainly of the project development, the summer 

academy and editing, together with Ursula Prinzl, the online journal Human 

Security Perspectives. She serves as project manager of the FP6 coordinated 

action HUMSEC "Human Security in the Western Balkan region: impact of transnational 

terrorists and criminal organizations in the peace- building process of the region". She is 

involved also in the FP6 project PROMISE "Promotion of Migrants in Science Education". 

She worked on the training manual "Researching Country of Origin Information" and on the 

study commissioned by the UNESCO on "Measures taken by municipalities and 

recommendations for further action to achieve greater vigilance against racism Commitment 1 

of the Ten-Point Plan of Action". E-mail address: Maddalena.Vivona@etc-graz.at. 

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Franziska Walter 

Ralph Zettl 

is Jurist. She worked in Rwanda at the European 

Commission and she was country desk for the East Africa 

region at the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Department for 

Development Cooperation. She completed her studies in 

"Governance and Development" in England and since 

October 2004 she works for the Austrian Development 

Agency as Human Rights, Democracy and Governance 

Officer. 

Studied Environmental System Sciences at the University of Graz, with a 

special focus on Business Administration. Following that, he acquired 

comprehensive know-how about the university’s finance, staff and 

teaching. As head of the Staff Office for Steering, Development and 

Planning (since 2000) at the University of Graz, the 34-year old Ralph 

Zettl has won renown as expert for controlling and is directly involved in 

the applications, negotiations and the distribution of the university’s 

budgets. 

Miroslav Zivanovic 

Is head of Library and Documentation Department of the Human Rights Centre of the 

University of Sarajevo. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo in comparative 

literature and librarianship and obtained his masters degree in state management and 

humanitarian affairs from University of Sarajevo, University of Belgrade and University of 

Rome “La Sapienza”. He is library tutor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate 

Studies of the University of Sarajevo. His research interests include human rights in Bosnia 

and Herzegovina, information and communication technologies and human rights, civil 

society, as well as public administration and good governance. Mr. Zivanovic has been acting 

as a coordinator in various regional projects: Regional Human Rights Report, Balkan Human 

Rights Network Web Portal, Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities and The Bosnian 

Hibernating Bear Production – Students Web Site of Summa Cum Laude Final Papers. 

Moreover, he has been a moderator of several conferences, organized by the OSCE Mission 

in Bosnia and Herzegovina. E-mail address: mz@hrc.unsa.ba. 

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