Dr'in Rebecca Froese is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster & the Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Center Potsdam.
In July 2020, she co-founded the podcast Fokus Frieden together with Julia Renner during her time as a PhD student at RPTU. Since then, she has prepared and hosted more than 40 episodes of the podcast. Rebecca completed her PhD at RPTU in Geography with intersections to peace and conflict studies, environmental sciences and environmental sociology on the topics of social cohesion, land conflicts and socio-ecological tipping points in the Southwestern Amazon.
Her current research focuses on organized community engagement for socio-ecological transformations, including at and with arts and cultural institutions. Her work is embedded in larger questions of justice, social cohesion, democracy and conflict transformation.
You can find more information here.
Since 2020 member of the editorial team of thepodcast Focus on Peace.
2025
"Learning peace where it hurts - polarizing conflicts as a pedagogical challenge" with Annalena Groppe
"Peace research critical of domination - its practice in the past and present" with Claudia Brunner and David Scheuing
"Islamic peace ethics - diverse perspectives from theory and practice" with Asmaa El Maaroufi
"Toxic masculinity - is it science or can it go away?" with Ann Biedermann
"Science and universities in whose service? The civil clause as an anti-fascist idea" with Senta Pineau and Dr. Hannes Jung
2024
"Peace on the plate? Nutrition between ethics and ecology" with Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer and Dr. Marco Springmann
"Anniversary episode - What does peace actually mean?" with Dr. Gregor
Walter-Drop and Dr. Melanie Hussak[TS1 ]
"Radically non-violent - disruption as a language of resistance" with Dr. Jannis Grimm
"Making Worlds?! How can artistic practices support conflict transformation?" with Camilo Pachón and Sara Alvarado
"Beyond Borders: The Sámi Peoples' Struggle for Self-Determination in Europe and Lessons from Indigenous Colombia" with Prof. René Urueña(German dubbing)
"Future Democracy - Participatory Art in the Department Store" with Katharina Anna-Josefine Rausch, Julia Katharina Thiemann and Annalena Groppe
"Democratic participation for a sustainable future? The importance of citizens' councils in Germany" with Carolin Bohn and Lena Siepker
"The Antarctic. Ice cold and hotly contested?" with Dr. Patrick Flamm
2023
"The good life for all - a way out of the crisis?" with Lea Becker
"Electricity and security of supply - how do we prevent a blackout?" with Prof. Dr. Anne Remke
"Coloniality and university - an issue of yesterday?" with Fabricio Rodriguez and Cita Wetterich
"Constructive journalism - the necessity of positive reporting" with Simone Schlindwein, Julia Steinigeweg and David Scheuing
"The PhD journey - Rebecca, tell us about it"
"From drugs to duck liver pâté: On the trail of organized crime" with Dr Regine Schönenberg
2022
"Poly - or how we want to live and love together" with Jana Sine
"COP the 27th - uuuuuand action!?-A field report from the 2022 climate negotiations" with Carola Klöck
"Powerless!-NGOs and their contribution to peace and security" with Dr. Charlotte Dany
"Guatemala - A short journey through history and the present" with Claudia Pinzon
""I am Collage" - visual philosophy of marginal beauty and pain, #ukrwarbody" with Elis Prostotak and Katharina Binz
"Arte.preneurship - and the goal of shaping art socially" with Daniel Bucurescu
"Is this art, or...?-On the (im)possibilities of activist art" with Sofia Ohmer
"Against unscrupulous business practices - #SupplyChainDutyOfCareLaw" with Dr. Svenja Schöneich and Inga Carry
"Fat, fatter, discriminated - On the intersectionality of being fat" with Anna Gass
"Military vs. civil society - Sudan, a country in transformation" with Dr. Gerrit Kurtz
"EU Gender Action Plan - What has feminism lost in EU foreign policy?" with Miriam Mona Mukalazi
2021
"Whales: the underestimated climate saviors?" with Maike Scheffold
""White, Exclusive & Unjust" - Insights into the 2021 climate negotiations" with Dr. Andrea Schapper
"Forensics in the Amazon - A visit to Betty Baier's soil archive" with Betty Baier
"The Amazon - More than the green lung of the earth" with Dr. Regine Schönenberg, Elisabeth Lagneaux, Claudia Pinzón and Prof. Dr. Hermann Jungkunst
"Of sinks and terrorists - A guide to non-violent communication" with Annett Zupke
"Women, peace, environment - from the peace movement of the 80s to Fridays for Future" with Friedel Grützmacher and Eva Quistrop and Flora Dahlhausen and Robin Puster
"One year of Corona - How divided is Germany?" with Prof. Dr. Tim Engartner, Dr. Claudia Gatzka, Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler, Nina Horaczek and Prof. Dr. Pierre Thielbörger
"Nature conservation against right-wing extremism - seeing through the neo-Nazis' green camouflage and standing up to it" with Roland Horne
'Of landmines and killer robots - the relevance of humanitarian arms control' with Elvira Rosert
2020
"Environmental Peacebuilding - An opportunity for sustainable peace?" with Janpeter Schilling
"Thirsty flowers - of roses and conflicts" with Julia Renner
"Shared Societies - Together for a new togetherness" with Melanie Hussak, Clem McCartney and Ran Kuttner
"Civil society vs. the state - how much tension can a democracy tolerate?" with Hauke Hartmann
"EU peace project!?" with Sebastian Zeitzmann
"Focus on peace - pilot episode" with Julia-Renner