International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Maria Pawelec

Society, Culture and Technological Change

Maria Pawelec studied Politics and Public Admini-stration and Contemporary European Studies in Konstanz, Istanbul, Bath and Berlin. She then work-ed for the Robert Bosch Foundation in the depart-ment for “International Relations Europe and its Neighbors”. 2016, she joined the IZEW as a Research Associate working on the project "Ethical implica-tions of IT-export to sub-Saharan Africa (ELISA)".

Career

Maria Pawelec studied Politics and Public Administration and Contemporary European Studies in Konstanz, Istanbul, Bath and Berlin. In 2014, she completed her Master's degree in Contemporary European Studies with a thesis on the EU military operation at sea to counter piracy off the coast of Somalia (Operation Atalanta). She then worked in the department for International Relations Europe and its Neighbors of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart. Since 2016, she is working as a Research Associate on the project "Ethical implications of IT-export to sub-Saharan Africa (ELISA)". Additionally, she supported the project Privacy-Arena from October until December 2016. From February until June 2017 she also coordinated an expert report prepared on behalf of the German Bundestag on the social and psychological impact of technological surveillance.

Publications

  • Pawelec, Maria (2018): How Bridge International's Tech-Driven For-Profit Schools in Africa may Reinforce Global Power Inequalities. In: Sicherheitspolitik-Blog.
  • Heesen, Jessica; Pawelec, Maria; Schelenz, Laura (2017): Development, Security, and the Role of ICT in the Global South. In: Sicherheitspolitik-Blog.
  • Baur-Ahrens, Andreas; Hagendorff, Thilo; Pawelec, Maria (2017): Kryptografie. In: Joel Baumann und Jörn Lamla (ed.): Privacy Arena. Kontroversen um Privatheit im digitalen Zeitalter. Kassel: Kassel University Press, pp. 40-55.
  • Baur-Ahrens, Andreas; Hagendorff, Thilo; Pawelec, Maria (2017): Big Data. In: Joel Baumann und Jörn Lamla (ed.): Privacy Arena. Kontroversen um Privatheit im digitalen Zeitalter. Kassel: Kassel University Press, pp. 96-113.
  • Heesen, Jessica; Pawelec, Maria; Schelenz, Laura (2017): Development, Security, and the Role of ICT in the Global South. In: Sicherheitspolitik-Blog.
  • Upadhyay, Dinoj Kumar; Pawelec, Maria (2016): State-building and police reform in Afghanistan: EU and US engagement in comparative perspective. In: Ingo Peters (Hg.): The European Union's Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Beyond the "Actorness" and "Power" Debate. London: Routledge, pp. 165-186.
  • Pawelec, Maria; Grimm, Sonja (2015): Does National Identity Matter? Political Conditionality and the crucial case of Serbia's (Non) Co-operation with the ICTY. In: Journal of Common Market Studies 52 (6), pp. 1290-1306.