User:Burcu Eke-Schneider

Burcu Eke-Schneider is a peace worker from Ankara, Turkey. She began her career in journalism and in 2013 she covered the Gezi Park Movement as a freelance journalist in alternative media and international press. She was a Master-student in Peace and Conflict Studies Hacettepe University's Istanbul branch from 2014 to 2017, where she was taught among others by Johan Galtung, Jorgen Johansen, Stellan Vinthagen, Oliver Richmond, Norman Finkelstein, Joshua Weiss, Wolfgang Dietrich, Gal Harmat, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen and Amr Khairy Abdalla. Hacettepe University shut down the department in 2015 but she obtained a Master's degree with her thesis subject being 'Identity-based Conflicts in between Resistance Groups during the Gezi Movement'. Since 2016, Burcu has attended several international conferences on non-violent resistance and science, especially on the interactions between practice and science to which they belong and on the transformation and social change of several actors. She is currently a PhD student at University of Wuppertal and her research focuses on inclusive transformation of the international community, especially on the participation of women with their cultural knowledge in urban development processes.In this context she is coordinating the network of the urbangardening peace project at the Alevi culture center in Wuppertal. The project which focuses inclusivity, strengtening of women, peacebuilding strategies, climate justice and biodiversity at mikro-level. She is an UrbanA Fellow and also a professional tour guide of Turkey and a certified expert on Istanbul and the work of the famous 16th century architect Sinan.