Lock Peter : curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae: Peter Lock

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website: http://www.peter-lock.de/

Current position: research co-ordinator of European Association for Research on Transformation e.V. and independent researcher/consultant (social sciences, economics), regular lectures at the General Staff College of the German armed forces.

Nationality: German

Status: married, two daughters

Age: 63

Academic degrees: Diploma (sociology and economics) Free University in Berlin (1969), doctoral degree (political science, intern. relations) at the Free University of Berlin (1979).

Current research fields: „privatisation of security« as a global trend, (economic) causes of armed conflicts, transformation of violence in the context of globalisation and shadow globalisation towards «pacification» beyond the state by criminalisation.

Regular research networking: Links include colleagues in Russia, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Jordan, France, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom among others.

Grants received: German Research Council, German Society for Peace and Conflict Research, Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research, Ford Foundation, UNESCO, Foundation Peace and Development, Volkswagen Foundation, German Society for Technical Co-operation.

Consultancies: Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst, UNESCO, World Council of Churches, Committee on Apartheid of the Security Council of the UN, DG XII of EC, Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Gemeinsame Konferenz Kirche und Entwicklung, Committee on Apartheid UN-Security Council, member of the expert group at the UN Department for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for a mandated international study on firearms, German Foreign Office, external referee for chapters of the SIPRI Yearbook and the Small Arms Survey; for the three-year program of the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation to combat the illicit availability of small arms, for the Austrian Ministry of Science.

Field research: Extensive field research was repeatedly carried out in Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Russia among others.

Professional positions: Programming officer and country representative for the German Voluntary Service in Ecuador, researcher at the research centre of the German Association of Scientists (affiliated to Pugwash), research and teaching positions (assistant professor and guest lecturer) at the universities of Hamburg, Hannover, Bremen, Berlin, Kassel. Research co-ordination the Centre for War, Armaments and Development at the university of Hamburg and the Berghof institute for Peace and Conflict Research in Berlin, Editor-in-chief of MILITÄRPOLITIK DOKUMENTATION (1977-1992),

Publications: see regularly updated lists (in different languages) and many full texts at http://www.peter-lock.de/