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...and for the module Peace Research: Minor, elective and complimentary courses.
Selecting your field of study is an important step for the determination of your future career and therefore you need to put a careful thought and effort into this decision. Once you have become acquainted with the demands and requirements of teachers and study regulations that govern the university life, you may realise that there is apparently not a large room left to manoeuvre. Being a mentor, I consider as my duty to encourage my students while offering them opportunities that would enable them to realise their goals for their professional life. Nevertheless, it is beyond my control and understanding how students or young graduates can sell themselves or their skills as efficient as possible in the job market. Rather, I intend to strongly help them utilize their interests on specialized knowledge and know-how acquired during their studies in their future professional career, where they can pour their whole heart into it.
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Senator Dr. Herlind Gundelach of Hamburg’s Ministry of Science and Research announced on July 8, 2010 in a formal ceremony the winners of the Hamburg Teaching Award 2010.
Prof. Dr. Martin Kalinowski received the Teaching Award for the MIN faculty. ...more
Student Evaluation of Courses
Certificate in the Evaluation of Teaching through the FSR of the Department of Physics
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The Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East has been a subject in political discourse for a long time. The 2010 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York has adopted a corresponding mandate for action and called for the establishment of a first Conference of the States of the Middle East by 2012. In this seminar, you have the chance to act as a representative of a member state of the negotiations. Preparations will be made during a series of meetings and the subject will be simulated during a final block seminar based on the "Model United Nations.” Please see poster information.
Summer Term 2010 - Students simulated negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)
On May 11th and 12th 2010 more than 30 students of all subjects mainly from the universities in Darmstadt and Hamburg, Germany came together in New York to negotiate Articles IX (Nuclear Weapons) and X (Nuclear Material) of the model Nuclear Weapons Convention (mNWC, UN document A/62/650) as a side event to the 8th NPT RevCon.
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Winter Term 2008/09 and Summer Term 2009 - International Model United Nations (IMUN)
In the summer semester 2009 the ZNF under the lead of Prof. Martin Kalinowski organised its second Model United Nation Conference, this time international. After the success of the Simulation Conference of the Security Council on the Iranian Nuclear Programme in January 2008, an international follow-up project was started. This time the COP15 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which in the real world will take place in Copenhagen, just a couple of months later...
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Summer Term 2008 - A trip to Geneva for the 2008 NPT PrepCom
The Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research (Zentrum für Naturwissenschaft und Friedensforschung - ZNF) of the University of Hamburg started in the summer semester of 2008 a seminar entitled “The UN Negotiations on Science and Technology Concerns with Role-play: A Journey to Geneva for the 2008 NPT PrepCom” (Verhandlungen der Vereinten Nationen zu Wissenschaft- und Technikfragen mit Rollenspielen: Fahre zur 2008 NPT PrepCom nach Genf). This seminar involved students from various courses to conduct interviews with diplomats attending the 2008 Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) held on April 28 to May 9 at the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Winter Term 2007/08 - Simulation Conference of the UN Securtiy Council
On January 18-19, 2008, ZNF conducted the first simulation of the UN Security Council Conference. This was in conjunction with an intensive seminar designed for students of the University of Hamburg to play the roles of diplomats and Foreign Ministers of selected countries. They were tasked to gather information about significant issues and corresponding country positions for the purpose of deliberation. Lobbying The aim was to provide a unique setting for students to learn about the decision making process in the UN which concerns political issues and problems of the international community; and to learn how to develop and express their own opinions with a goal to convince other participants. The willingness to agree to a sort of compromise in order to arrive at a final resolution was one of the values that this seminar wants to achieve.
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