"Blickwechsel", is VIDC's podcast for a another, a new look at the world. With this Podcast we want to bring those voices into the spotlight that we rarely hear in Austria: Activists and scientists from the Global South; people who come from our focus regions, who are directly affected, with whom we collaborate on events or studies. Who have an insight that we don't have, whose views open up new perspectives for us.
Sybille Straubinger, Director of the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, guides this Podcast. The VIDC is a think tank founded in 1962 by the later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky together with prominent politicians of the so-called Global South. Being in dialogue, always on the basis of equality and respect, and making the voices from the South heard in Austria (and not talking about them), that is the basic premise of our work - and of this Podcast.
2025 remains a year of numerous wars and conflicts. In mid-June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selensky visited Vienna to discuss Austria's support against the Russian war of aggression. The wars in Israel, Iran and Gaza reach a new level of escalation and at the same time devastating wars take place in Sudan and the DRC, which, however, are hardly reflected in the media coverage. Dr Miriam Mona Mukalazi, Africa Officer at the VIDC, talks to Sybille Straubinger, VIDC Director, about the global responsibility of European states and colonial continuities in the EU's security policy.
