Thomas Benedikter

Thomas Benedikter (*19 June 1957 in Bozen/Bolzano) is a South Tyrolean economist, political researcher and essayist, active in civic education, political consultancy and publishing.
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==Life ==
Benedikter studied political economy and political science in Innsbruck, Munich, Trento and Berlin. Besides his professional activity in empirical social and economic research in his native region (Province of Bolzano) Benedikter has been continuously active since 1980 in various political, educational and civic engagements, starting with work for peace and disarmament, North-South solidarity, human and minority rights, students' and workers' rights and for more democracy and political participation of citizens.www.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Benedikter
Since 1984, Benedikter has been co-founder and director of various civic engagement organisations: he was a member of the board of the South Tyrol Student Union ASUS-SH, and of the Institute for Labour Promotion IPL-AFI, he was director of the South Tyrolean section of the international NGO 'Association for Threatened Peoples' and of the World Culture Library in Bozen, co-founder of the NGO 'Initiative for More Democracy', vice-president of PRO NEPAL and co-founder of the Ilse Waldthaler Foundation for Civic Courage. For more than two years, Benedikter took part in research and humanitarian cooperation projects in Latin America, the Balkans (Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) and South Asia (Nepal, Kashmir, North-East India), from which he produced a series of publications on ethnic conflicts, the protection of ethnic minorities and territorial autonomy. From 2003 to 2009 Benedikter worked for the European Academy EURAC in Bolzano on comparative research programmes on territorial autonomies in the world. Since 2013 he has been the director in charge of the POLITiS study centre for civic education and political research. He works as a freelance authorhttps://www.raetia.com/de/supplier/355-thomas-benedikter and research assistant at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano.
==Works==
Thomas Benedikter's publications have been published in six languages. Among the best known are the following: 
Autonomy and ethnic conflicts
Il dramma del Kosovo, Datanews, Rom 1998. 
Krieg im Himalaya – Die Hintergründe des Maoistenaufstandes in Nepal, LIT Berlin, 2003. 
Il groviglio del Kashmir, Fratelli Frilli, Genua 2005. 
The World’s Working Regional Autonomies, ANTHEM London/New Delhi, 2007. 
Moderne Autonomiesysteme der Welt, Athesia Bozen, 2007. 
Europe’s Ethnic Mosaic – A Short Guide to Minority Rights in Europe, EURAC Bozen, 2008
Solving Ethnic Conflict through Self-Government, EURAC Bozen, 2009
Language policy and the rights of linguistic minorities in India, LIT Berlin 2009, 
Territorialautonomie weltweit. Hintergründe, Einschätzungen und Gespräche zu 100 Jahren Autonomie, LIT Berlin 2021. ISBN
Direct Democracy and citizens’ participation
Democrazia diretta – Più potere ai cittadini, SONDA Casale Monferrato, 2008. 
Più democrazia per l’Europa. ARCA Edizioni, Lavis 2010. 
Gaspedal und Bremse – Direkte Demokratie in Südtirol, ARCA-POLITiS 2015. 
Il bilancio partecipativo, Edizioni SI, Milano 2017. 
Più potere ai cittadini? Il fascino indiscreto della democrazia diretta, MIMESIS Milano, 2018. 
Moneta intera – La creazione del denaro in mano pubblica, ARCA-POLITiS 2018. 
Democrazia diretta in Svizzera, Edizioni SI Milano 2019. 
South Tyrol
Josef Noldin - “Ich will nicht Gnade, sondern Recht!”, Athesia, Bozen 2000. 
Armut verstehen – Armut entgegenwirken - Eine aktuelle sozialkundliche Darstellung, CARITAS Bozen, 2006
Den Grundsätzen treu geblieben – Alfons Benedikters Wirken für Südtirol im Spiegel der Erinnerung (Hg.), Prokopp&Hechensteiner, St. Pauls 2012. 
Mehr Eigenständigkeit wagen – Südtirols Autonomie heute und morgen, ARCA-POLITiS 2016. 
La nostra autonomia oggi e domani, ARCA-POLITiS 2017. 
I sudtirolesi – Introduzione poco riverente nel mondo dei sudtirolesi, ARCA-POLITiS 2017. 
100 Fragen zur Migration in Europa, Italien und Südtirol, RAETIA 2020. 
Category:1957 births
Category:Economists
Category:Political researcher
Category:Essayists