Social Cohesion and Tipping Points: Perspectives, Approaches and the Way Forward

The Peace Academy together with Free University Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research hostet the transdisciplinary symposium on 20-21 August 2020. PhD researcher Rebecca Froese presented her research on Social Cohesion and Tipping Points in the MAP region.

Fast and inadequately regulated social, political, ecological and technological transformation processes, such as climate change impacts, major environmental destruction, land concentration and growing right-wing populism, are increasingly affecting societies across the globe. Such change processes, associated with growing inequalities within the social fabric, enhance the risk for social fragmentation. Thus, understanding how social cohesion can be protected and strengthened is an important objective for interdisciplinary research.

We discussed social cohesion combining perspectives from various scientific disciplines and learned from the different approaches about how the concept of "social cohesion" can be used to address specific research questions.

Rebecca Froese presented her research on Social Cohesion and Tipping Points in the MAP Region and Janpeter Schilling moderated the event together with Regine Schönenberg from FU Berlin.