Since September 2002 Prof. Wolf-Dieter Eberwein is a  visiting professor at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques of the University of Grenoble, France.

In the first half of 2002 the anthology "Humanitäre Hilfe statt Politik? Neue Herausforderungen für ein altes Politikfeld", edited by Wolf-Dieter Eberwein and Peter Runge, will be published at LIT-publishers. This will be the first volume of the new series "Berliner Schriften zur humanitären Hilfe und Konfliktprävention" and addresses the changes in the field of the politics of humanitarian aid in general as well as in Germany in particular by providing the analytical examination of the problem from practical as well as academic perspectives. In particular the increasing instrumentation of humanitarian action as a means of politics and the counterproductive effects on the attempted generation of an international humanitarian order, resulting thereof, will be in the focus of the work. Key assumption is that the intersection of political goals and nonpolitical humanitarian assistance will in the long run risk the credibility of humanitarian action.

In the summer of 2002 the monography "Humanitäre Hilfe im Wandel. Im Spagat zwischen Macht und Moral" by Wolf-Dieter Eberwein, Yasemin Block and Catherine Goetze will be published at LIT-publishers. The second volume of the "Berliner Schriften zur Humanitären Hilfe und Konfliktprävention" aims to analyse the change within the system of humanitarian aid, thus covering a field of research, that has so far been widely negated in the academic discussion. The findings published in that monography are the ending point of a research project that has been going on for several years.