Focus & Structure > Persons > Prof. Dr. Lars Kirchhoff
Prof. Dr. Lars Kirchhoff, practicing mediator and international lawyer, is the director of the Center for Peace Mediation.
He is also the co-director of the Institute for Conflict Management and the Master's Program in Mediation at the European University Viadrina as well as partner of the Berlin-based mediation firm Kanzlei für Mediation Gläßer Kirchhoff and TGKS Berlin.
Biography:
After graduate studies in Passau, Dublin and Berlin, and research positions held at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Prof. Kirchhoff specialized in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), International Law and International Commercial Arbitration during his postgraduate studies at Yale Law School and at the U.S. District Court of Northern California.In addition to his practical work as a mediator, Lars Kirchhoff is teaching mediation and ADR skills at the German Academy of Judges, Bucerius Law School, the United Nations, and the Training Academy for International Diplomats at the German Federal Foreign Office. In 2002 and 2003 he was a faculty member of the “International Summer School on Dispute Resolution” at Tulane Law School and Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2008 Prof. Kirchhoff is a faculty member of the Master's Program in Human Rights & Genocide Studies and the Master's Program in Human Rights & Humanitarian Law.
Areas of expertise:
Models and methods of peace mediation, transitional justice issues, interest-based design of peace processes, legal framework of international conflict resolution.Selected Publications:
Kirchhoff, Lars (co-author) (2009): Handlungsorientierte Wissenschaft-Brückenschlag zwischen ADR-Forschung und –Praxis, in: perspective mediation, Heft 1, pp. 20-26.> http://www.jusline-pro.at/ra/ehp/downloads/mediation/gaessler_innen_lowres-2.pdf
Kirchhoff, Lars (2009): Linking Mediation and Transitional Justice. The Use of Interest-Based Mediation in Processes of Transition, in: Ambos, Kai; Large, Judith; Wierda, Marieke (eds.): Building a Future on Peace and Justice, Studies on Transitional Justice, Conflict Resolution and Development The Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice. Springer, pp. 237-260.
> http://www.springer.com/law/book/978-3-540-85753-2
> http://www.initiativeforpeacebuilding.eu/pdf/Evaluating_Peace_mediation.pdf Kirchhoff, Lars (2008): Constructive Interventions. Paradigms, Process and Practice of International Mediation. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
> http://www.kluwerlaw.com/Catalogue/titleinfo.htm?ProdID=9041126856&name=Constructive-Interventions
Kirchhoff, Lars (co-author) (2008): Interest-based Methods in International Peacemaking. Symposium Report. Berlin: European-University Viadrina, Project Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance.
> http://www.peacemediation.de/pub/CPM_Symposium0408.pdf
(currently only German version available)
Kirchhoff, Lars (2007): Linking Transitional Justice and Mediation. Study for Conference “Peace and Justice”.
> http://www.peacemediation.de/pub/Kirchhoff_TJ.pdf
Kirchhoff, Lars (co-author of second edition) (2006): Arbitration and Mediation in International Business. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
> http://www.aspenpublishers.com/Product.asp?catalog_name=Aspen&product_id=9041122567&cookie_test=1
Kirchhoff, Lars (co-author) (2003): The Arbitrator as Mediator. Some Recent Empirical Insights, in: Journal of Arbitration, pp. 81-90.
Kirchhoff, Lars (2000): Stephen Krasner´s ´Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy`. A Review, in: Yale Journal of International Law, pp. 233-237.
Kirchhoff, Lars (2000): Der Beitrag der OSZE zur Konfliktbewältigung in Europa. Die Friedens-Warte, Bd. 75, pp. 53-79.
> http://www.friedens-warte.de/hefte/h_1_00.htm
For a full list of publications see:
> http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de/de/forschung/institut/institut_ikm/struktur/leitung/kirchhoff/
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