User:Burcu Eke-Schneider

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I am a peace worker from Ankara, Turkey. I began my career in journalism and in 2013 I covered the Gezi Park Movement as a freelance journalist in alternative media and international press. I was a Master-student in Peace and Conflict Studies Hacettepe University's Istanbul branch from 2014 to 2017, where I 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, Zeki Ergas, Tatsushi Arai and Amr Khairy Abdalla. Hacettepe University shut down the department in 2015 but I obtained a Master's degree with my thesis subject being 'Identity-based Conflicts in between Resistance Groups during the Gezi Movement'.Since graduating from Hacettepe University in 2017, I was able to gain experience, inspire activities and realize projects mainly focused in the fields of intercultural bridge-building and sustainability change management. As a trained peace-worker, I was invited to presented new ideas at international conferences and realize interventions on the level of established organizations as well as in inter-personal or inter-group conflicts.

In all my works I seek to apply the idea of proceeding from Science to Practice. As an example, I developed and applied “A micro-level Peace-building Method for Sustainable and Just Cities." In this context I initiated the "Creating Peace Gardens in the Urban Realm" project.https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/Urban_Gardening_Peace_Project As a pilot study it has been realized in Wuppertal in order to generate an in-depth, multi-faceted understanding of a complex issue in a real-life laboratory context. It was not only set up to analyse root-cause problems but also sought to propose culturally sensitive solutions by the help of eco-education. The goal was to use "nature-based micro-level solutions" as a "new forms of dialogue method" for a sustainable future. It resulted in an alternative education model for intercultural and interreligious dialogue.I am an UrbanA Fellow and Tag des Guten Lebens Advisory Board member in Wuppertal.

Neue Formen des Dialogs –für einen friedlichen, gerechten und nachhaltigen Wandel! 
  • 2021 - From Science to Practice: The Role of Research in Tackling COVID-19 and Achieving the SDGs.
  • 2021 - Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities Meeting Berlin.
  • 2021 - What does a just transition to solve climate change by 2030 look like? Drift Webinar.
  • 2021 - Wuppertal Institute: Platform for Neighbourhood Solidarity: Using Community-based Approaches to Build Pandemic-resilient Neighbourhoods, International Peace Worker and Researcher,https://www.schader-stiftung.de/fileadmin/content/Plattform_fuer_Quartierssolidaritaet_-_Folien_zum_Vortrag_von_Stelzer.pdf
  • 2021 - New York Institute of Technology: "School of Architecture and Design" -R-cubed Symposium and Workshop.
  • 2021 - 'European Social Economy Summit' 2021
  • 2021 - RLC/ZEF Bonn Workshop, Mobilization for Change:Ensuring Rights and Promoting Justice for Marginalized People.
  • 2021 - Swiss Sociological Association Congress Social Justice in Times of Uncertainty : "A micro-level Peace-building Method for Sustainable and Just Cities" Presentation.