VIDC - Wiener Institut für internationalen Dialog und Zusammenarbeit

Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation

The main political focus of the VIDC is to enhance a critical public debate on issues related to colonialism and racism and to establish an international dialogue based on equality and respect.

The vidc has a long tradition in the field of development cooperation in Austria and was founded at the “Conference for Economic Cooperation and Partnership” which took place in July 1962 in Salzburg and Vienna. The organisation was founded by Bruno Kreisky alongside the former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and other prominent politicians from the so called “Third World” such as Tom Mboya from Kenya and Ahmed Ben Salah from Tunisia as a think-tank for development cooperation and development policy, making it the oldest Austrian organisation in development policy and cooperation.

A fair global world order.

The VIDC acts on the assumption of a fair global world order and accordingly supports social processes of transformation, which initiate this social change. The vidc is aware of the fact that is part of the existent conditions and is active within them.
In our eyes the equal opportunity of all individuals is an indispensible precondition for a just society, which provides access to all resources for all, makes a life in dignity possible and expels all forms of discrimination.

Equal opportunities.

This implies a perception of the world that is not geared with traditional concepts, terms and themes of action, but which supports equal rights and emancipatory processes.
Instead of militarily or politically arranged logics the VIDC places emphasis on concepts and principles of peace conserving or initiating philosophies and politics.

www.vidc.org

Program on etalks.tv:

Politics

Quersichten: Österreichische Flüchtlingswirklichkeiten

Perspectives beyond War and Crisis III
What kind of Palestinian State for what kind of Peace?

“Was tut Herr Müller in Afghanistan”

Umbrüche, Aufstände, Interventionen - Perspektiven der arabischen Epochenwende - Udo Steinbach 

War and Peace / Krieg und Frieden (English/Deutsch)

Rober Koptaş: Die Türkei nach den Wahlen. Demokratisierung oder auf dem Weg zum autoritären Staat?

Economy

Famished!? – Answers to the Global Food Crisis

Culture

تغيرفي وجهات النظر / Blickwechsel (Arabic)

Development

“Africa is gaining bargaining power”

Culture/Society/Literature & Film

Pinar Selek: Zu Männern gedrillt!

Culture/Religion & Spirituality

Politics/Africa

“Der Himmel über Afrika – Vom segensreiche (?) Einfluss evangelikaler Kirchen in Afrika”

“Südafrika quo vadis?”

Politics/Immigration

“Gestohlene Kindheit – Kinder im Krieg und auf der Flucht”

Science/Social Science

“Wir” und die “Anderen”. Analysen zu antimuslimischem Rassismus, Identität und Geschlecht

Politics/European Union/Minorities

Roma Discourses / Roma Diskurse (English/Deutsch) – Panel Discussion

Economics/Financial crisis

“Who cares in times of crisis?” – Shahra Razavi

Financial Crisis

“Feminist views on the financial crisis and the care economy” – Brigitte Young

Financial Crisis

“Wege zu einer neuen Weltfinanzordnung – Systemische Antworten auf die Lebensmittel- und Finanzkrise” – Heiner Flassbeck

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights serves as the platform’s centre of communication and coordination.

Objectives:

The interdisciplinary Research Platform Human Rights in the European Context aims at generating knowledge beyond the framework of individual disciplines and faces new research questions with interdisciplinary, in particular trans-disciplinary methods, specifically by making use of the
“Human Rights Based Approach“. Thus, it is intended to function as a human rights think-tank.

The platform will carry out inter-disciplinary and policy oriented background studies and research projects on various topics related to European human rights policies which shall inform and feed into current debates.

Besides the core group, the Platform has the function of a hub for a network of researchers from all involved academic disciplines. These additional researchers are included in the elaboration and implementation of projects emerging from the Platform’s activities – according to their individual expertise. Eventually, the joint resources of the Platform are resulting in the “Networking of Networks” which on the one hand ensures a broad coverage of sources, and on the other hand guarantees the wide-spread dissemination of the working results into the discourses of the participating academic disciplines.

A particular focus is being put on a synergetic linkage of project implementation and output in terms of dissertations and postdoctoral research work. Thus, the Platform provides younger researchers with an opportunity to carry out inter-disciplinary research projects under the joint supervision of senior researchers from all relevant disciplines.

(http://human-rights.univie.ac.at/)

For decades, the name ecoplus has been synonymous with innovative business and regional development policies. Activities have been focused on developing the business location of Lower Austria – and on supporting companies based in Lower Austria. In order to provide its clients and partners with optimal support, ecoplus bundles its operations into the following three divisions, a reflection of the sheer variety of tasks, the breadth of engagement, and the development dynamic characterizing ecoplus:

www.ecoplus.at

(www.opegpw.at)

ÖGPW – WAS IST DAS?

“ÖGPW” steht für Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft. Die ÖGPW wurde 1970 gegründet und hat derzeit über 600 Mitglieder: StudentInnen, AbsolventInnen und UniversitätslehrerInnen der Politikwissenschaft ebenso wie VertreterInnen der außeruniversitären sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung und Interessierte aus den verschiedensten gesellschaftlichen Bereichen. Die ÖGPW ist Mitglied der Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA), der European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA) und der International Political Science Association (IPSA).

AUFGABEN DER ÖGPW

• Förderung der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich

• Interessenvertretung österreichischer PolitikwissenschafterInnen

• weitere Internationalisierung der österreichischen Politikwissenschaft

AKTIVITÄTEN DER ÖGPW

• Herausgabe der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ÖZP), die pro Quartal erscheint und im Rahmen von Schwerpunktheften ein repräsentatives Forum politologischer Forschung in Österreich darstellt.

• Veranstaltung von Tagungen, Podiumsdiskussion, Workshops und Vorträgen.

• Derzeit setzen sich 6 Sektionen der ÖGPW mit aktuellen Forschungsbereichen der Politikwissenschaft auseinander: “Agora Demokratieforschung”, “Comparative European Politics”, “Europaforschung”, “Internationale Beziehungen”, “Political Leadership” und “powie04 – Graduiertensektion”.

• Mitglieder erhalten viermal jährlich den ÖGPW-Rundbrief, der über die Aktivitäten der Gesellschaft und der Sektionen informiert.

Program on etalks.tv:

UNVIE’s mission is to conduct effective multilateral diplomacy with International Organizations in Vienna to advance President Obama’s commitment to design and implement global approaches to reduce global threats and seize global opportunities.

To pursue this agenda, UNVIE employs 25 officers and 10 staff supported by an operating budget of $1.5 million. UNVIE also monitors the use more than $200 million in U.S. contributions to international organizations in Vienna.

UNVIE is headed by Ambassador Glyn Davies, U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Vienna and U.S. Permanent Representative to the IAEA.

Deputy U.S. Representative (DCM) Geoffrey Pyatt oversees three sections within the Mission: the International Atomic Energy Agency Section, the United Nations Affairs Section, and the Arms Control Section as well as Public Diplomacy and Policy and Research Analysis teams. Mission administrative support is provided by the Joint Management Office, part of the U.S. Embassy to Austria. UNVIE’s staff includes representatives from the Department of State, the Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

UNVIE receives over 1,000 U.S. Government and national laboratory visitors a year, from Cabinet to working-level, who participate in the work of Vienna-based international organizations or consult with UNVIE staff. UNVIE supports over 100 major policy meetings annually ranging in length from one day to two weeks.

A history of UNVIE can be found here.

http://vienna.usmission.gov/

Program on etalks.tv:

Transatlantic Relations

“The United States and the United Nations”

International relations

“A world free of nuclear weapons?”