Dati personali: Peter Praxmarer

Sede: Facoltà di Lugano
Ufficio: 202
Tel: +41 (0)58 666 46 73
Email: peter.praxmarer@usi.ch

Istituto di Comunicazione Pubblica, Collaboratore scientifico

Peter Praxmarer, lic.oec.publ. (University of Zurich, 1977) and Docteur ès sciences politiques (HEI, University of Geneva, 1984), is Coordinating Secretary of EMICC (European Master in Intercultural Communication), a network of nine European universities specializing in intercultural communication, at Università della Svizzera italiana ¿ USI ¿ University of Lugano, Switzerland. He also collaborates with the Master of Advanced Studies in Intercultural Communication (MIC) at the same university. For a number of years he has taught international politics and relations in the United States (among other universities at Brown University, Temple University and University of Pennsylvania). He also was a consultant for UNITAR and the United Nations University on issues of social development, and has worked in the private sector (publishing and agriculture). In 1992 he participated in a fact-finding and assessment mission visiting UN peacekeeping forces in the Krajina region (Croatia), on behalf of the Watson Institute at Brown University. From 1999-2000 he served as Field and Training Coordinator with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, for which he has also developed training programs in the field of democratization and good governance. His research focus is intercultural communication in international organizations, for cultural heritage and tourism, and in particular in post-conflict contexts. Since 2006 he regularly teaches at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä (Finland). During the past two years he has lectured at the University of Lugano, the Universities of Pisa and Trento (Italy), Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK), Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal), UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain) and University of Tartu (Estonia). He also offers courses in professional communication for the State Tourism and Hotel Management School in Bellinzona (Switzerland), and has received a number of mandates to give workshops on (intercultural) communication for teachers and other professional publics (e.g. Canton Ticino, Swiss Refugee Council). His latest articles and conference papers are: ¿Il paesaggio violentato dalla Guerra: Riflessioni sul Kosovo¿ (2006), in: Il dialogo con il paesaggio, a cura di Carla Gallo Barbisio et. al. Collana ¿Narrative Studies¿. Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Psicologia, pp. 159-169 ¿Intercultural Communication and Cultural Property ¿ A Stakeholder approach¿ 10th International Congress Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna 2006