Susanne Ulrich

ulrich@tolerance-net.org

Susanne Ulrich was born 1961 in DŸsseldorf. She studied Science of Administration (including Politics, Law, Economy, History and Sociology) at the University of Konstanz. Her final diploma examination focussed on the consequences of German politics of culture.

From 1987 - 1992 she worked as a consultant for international youth exchange at the German Kolping Society Cologne. From 1990 to 1992 Susanne Ulrich was a consultant for education on developing countries policy at the association for social and development aid of the Kolping Society. In the context of this work she made contacts across Europe, overseas and especially Israel. From 1992-1995 she was freelancing in Seminar and Cultural work.

Since 1995 she has been employed at the Center for Applied Policy Research (C.A.P) at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. She is responsible for the Project Education for Democracy and Tolerance. Together with colleagues she worked out a concept and a definition of tolerance. She also developed special exercises for teaching democracy and tolerance. Susanne works with different target groups, for example with teachers, students, administrators and police-officers. The Group«s own proposals are complemented by methods and experiences provided by partners from all over the world. These programs have been adapted for the use in the educational sector in Germany. Two examples are the program "betzavta" from Israel and the program `A World of Difference« from the Anti Defamation League in New York. Susanne also made a film about behaviour in conflict situations for German television.

In addition to the adapted programs, she created together with a team of experts a program for teaching democracy and tolerance: "Achtung (+) Toleranz" (which means Attention/Respect (+) Tolerance).The aim of this specific program teaching communication is not to get rhetorical knowledge for convincing or dominating other people but to learn partnership and dialogue competences.
Since 1999 Susanne is also an active member of the International Network Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance.