Journalist and television journalist
Ulrich Tilgner is a publicist and television journalist. He studied cultural studies, political science and economic history in Freiburg and Tübingen. He began his journalistic career in 1976 at Süddeutscher Rundfunk. Tilgner has been reporting from the Near and Middle East since 1980 for the public radio and television stations in Switzerland and Germany, as well as for the news agency dpa and daily newspapers. For his reporting on the Kuwait War (1991) and the Iraq War (2003), Tilgner was awarded the Hanns Joachim Friedrich Prize for Television Journalism in 2003. From 2002 to 2008, he headed the ZDF bureau in Tehran and was ZDF special correspondent. Today Tilgner works as a correspondent for Swiss television. His latest book "Zwischen Krieg und Terror" was published in 2006.
Tuesday, 29. March 2011, 18:15 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOH-B-10
Neutrality threatens to become an obsolete commodity. Fighting and wars for Western values are developing a dangerous dynamic. The defence of "Western values" is being subordinated to national self-interest, international norms are increasingly being violated instead of modifying these values in a global process and giving them worldwide validity. New forms of warfare require new norms. Neutrality can help reduce violence and make constructive use of the dynamics of globalisation.