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The personal pages of Wolfgang Petritsch.
Wolfgang Petritsch is the President of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation.
A retired career diplomat, Wolfgang Petritsch was the EU's Special Envoy for Kosovo (1998-1999), EU chief negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris (1999), and then High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2002).
He served as the Austrian ambassador to the UN in Geneva (2002-2008) and to the OECD in Paris (2008-2013), and was the Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University (2013-2014).
Die Presse - August 28, 2028
Petritsch: „Der Gaza-Brief richtet sich gegen die Nahost-Linie von Kurz und Schallenberg“
Kosovo Online - July 20, 2025
Petritsch: Kurti lacks a culture of compromise, hence the crisis in Kosovo and stalemate in Dialogue
Kosovo Online - July 20, 2025
Petrič: Kurtiju nedostaje kultura kompromisa, otuda i kriza na Kosovu i zastoj u dijalogu
Kosovo Online - July 20, 2025
Petriç: Kurtit i mungon kultura e kompromisit, ndaj ka krizë dhe bllokim të dialogut në Kosovë
Novosti - July 20, 2025
"KURTIJU NEDOSTAJE KULTURA KOMPROMISA" Petrič: Otuda i kriza na Kosovu i zastoj u dijalogu sa Srbijom
Alo! - July 20, 2025
POSLEDICE NATO BOMBARDOVANJA 1999. GODINE SU VEĆE NEGO ŠTO SE MISLILO... STAV SRBIJE JE ISPRAVAN! Volfgang Petrič progovorio o sadašnoj spoljnoj politici Srbije
Newsmax Balkans - July 20, 2025
Petrič: Za normalizaciju odnosa sa Srbijom Kosovo najpre mora da uspostavi interni dijalog
Republika - July 20, 2025
NATO BOMBARDOVANJE 1999. GODINE IMALO JE MNOGO VEĆE POSLEDICE! Volfgang Petrič: Beograd je na liniji Evropske unije!
Blic - July 20, 2025
"EKLATANTNI NEDOSTATAK RAZUMEVANJA DEMOKRATIJE" Volfgang Petrič: Kurtiju nedostaje kultura kompromisa, zato postoji kriza na Kosovu
B92 - July 20, 2025
Petrič: Kurtiju nedostaje kultura kompromisa, otuda i kriza na Kosovu i zastoj u dijalogu VIDEO
N1 - July 11, 2021
Wolfgang Petritsch on Srebrenica Genocide anniversary: People are forgetting - and if you forget, you tend to repeat mistakes
Euronews - July 7, 2025
Petrič upozorava: Kosovo stagnira, Kurti koči dijalog – spoljni uticaji sve opasniji
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Videos:
ORF (Austrian Public Broadcasting)- January 21, 2025
Report
ORF (Austrian Public Broadcasting) - December 6, 2023
Report
An Assessment of Current Political Issues in Europe
A Fireside Chat With Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch
October 24, 2023 - UC Berkeley
Publications
Sarajevo Singular Plural
Sarajevo Singular Plural. Contributions in Honour of Zdravko Grebo offers a collection of contributions – essays as well as art and photography portfolios – focusing on Sarajevo as a “multiplex city”.
The book screens how “being with” – at one and the same time co-existence, exposure to each other and hybridisation – is translated into the permanent metamorphosis of a city bonding its past and its future. Sarajevo’s recent past contains tragedies, suffering and failures of humanity as well as much unrealised hope and potential. The art and photography portfolios attempt in particular to capture this in delicate and refined ways.
Sarajevo’s urban space is scrutinised from a diversity of standpoints combining approaches inspired by architecture, urbanism, literature, art, anthropology, history, philosophy, social sciences and politics. Sarajevo Singular Plural views the city as ceaselessly active and perpetually changing; it presupposes a multidimensional and collaborative system composed of highly reactive projects connecting a wide range of “drivers for change”.
Epochenwechsel
Unser Digital-Autoritäres Jahrhundert
Wie gelingt die Neuorientierung von Nationalstaaten in der Globalisierung?
Inhalt:
Die Grundpfeiler unserer bisherigen Weltordnung sind ins Wanken geraten: Wir erleben Postdemokratie, das Wiedererstarken autoritärer Kräfte, die Ablösung des Liberalismus als bestimmende Leitidee der westlichen Welt. Bürgerkrieg, Terror, Propaganda und Cyberangriffe ersetzen heute zwischenstaatliche Kriege. Der autoritären Versuchung erliegen weltweit immer mehr Länder, der Aufstieg Chinas zeigt überdeutlich, dass der Kapitalismus die Demokratie nicht zwingend braucht. Der erfahrene Diplomat und UN-Sonderbotschafter Wolfgang Petritsch gibt Einblick in weltpolitische Szenarien und skizziert das Bild unserer kommenden Weltordnung durchaus zuversichtlich. Die Zukunft ist gestaltbar, auch unsere Enkelkinder könnten in Frieden und Wohlstand leben – wenn wir rechtzeitig handeln.