About/Disclaimer
With eyes wide open, it is my humble concern to write about the world as to how I see it and to what I am thinking about it.
This website is designed to combine own thoughts and experiences with news and stories from other sources, I consider to be adequate and topically interesting. The prime motivation of this blog is to contribute to information plurality as well as to comment on and reveal interrelations of worldwide society and politics with a focus on conflict, humanitarian and development issues, in particular with regards to DR Congo/Great Lakes Region, Larger Sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, and the United Nations.
As a political science/peace and conflict studies graduate and PhD student who has been to conflict regions at various occasions, I pursue the aim of cautiously and carefully analyse instants of crisis, turmoil, and political tension. I am deeply aware of the possibility that I might be wrong in repeated instances. Therefore I hope to engage in larger discussion with other experts and observers for whose opinion and comment I am extremely thankful. Notwithstanding, I take on responsibility for anything on this blog produced on my own.
Any report on this site is the my intellectual property and thus not to be used commercially by third persons (prohibited after German law § 28 BDSG unless the author is previously asked for permission). This blog is written under consideration of others’ property rights. Any linked material will not be checked entirely and thus cannot be regarded as the author’s opinion or expression of thought. The author rejects any responsibility for connected websites that are not genuinely part of this blog.
Just in case you assume any rights of you or your physical or virtual property could be violated by the content of this blog, I kindly ask you to contact me immediately. The property rights of published photography remain mine except where other source is named.
Feel free to contact me in matters related to research on peace and conflict, or any other issue touched upon by this blog.
Thank you.
