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HEINRICH BÖLL STIFTUNG
Address
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Rosenthaler Str. 40/41,
10178 Berlin, Germany
Phone ++49-30 - 285 34-0
Fax ++49 30 - 285 34-109
Web www.boell.de
E-Mail info@boell.de
Category Dialogue
MISSION STATEMENT
The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation
working in the spirit of intellectual openness. It was founded in 1997 by uniting the three foundations Buntstift (Göttingen), Frauen-
Anstiftung (Hamburg), and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Cologne). The Foundation's primary objective is to support political education both
within Germany and abroad, thus promoting democratic involvement, socio-political activism, and cross-cultural understanding. Its
activities are guided by the fundamental political values of ecology, democracy, solidarity, and non-violence.
Founding year 1997
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
By way of its international collaboration with a large number of project partners – currently numbering about 200 projects in 60
countries – the Foundation aims to strengthen ecological and civil activism on a global level, to intensify the exchange of ideas and
experiences, and to keep our sensibilities alert for change. The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s collaboration on socio-political education
programs with its project partners abroad is on a long-term basis. Additional important instruments of international co-operation
include visitor programs, which enhance the exchange of experiences and of political networking, as well as basic and advanced
training programs for committed activists.
A “Dossier” on “Exporting Democracy: Opportunities and Risks of External Democracy Promotion in Fragile States “can be found
online and contains relevant publications on conflict and peace studies: http://www.boell.de/asp/frameset_en.html
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(2001). Muslime im säkularen Rechtsstaat. Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
(2005). Diaspora, Öl und Rosen: Zur innenpolitischen Entwicklung in Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien. Berlin, Heinrich Böll
Stiftung.
Ottaway, M. (2006). Is Democracy the Answer? Exportschlager Demokratie? Chancen und Risiken der Demokratieförderung in
fragilen Staaten. Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
(2006). In Gottes Namen? Frauen und Fundamentalismus: Das Magazin der Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung. 1.
(2006). External Promotion of Democracy in Fragile States: Conference Draft. External Promotion of Democracy in Fragile States,
Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).