Christiane Fröhlich

Education

2005-2009 PhD student at Marburg University. Dissertation title: The Israeli-Palestinian water discourse – indicating conflict or cooperation? To be published by VS-Verlag in early 2010.

2002-2003 Master of Peace and Security Studies at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at Hamburg University. Title of Master thesis: Water in the Middle East – Key to Peace?

1998/99 DAAD-exchange student at Warwick University, GB. Courses in English and comparative literature, contemporary history.

1996-2002 Magistra Artium in English studies, history and psychology at Hamburg University. Title of Master thesis: Violence in Northern Irish poetry.

Environmental conflicts – water scarcity and its role in violent conflict; cultural, ideological and religious connotations of the resource; regional focus Near and Middle East, esp. Israel and Palestinian Territories.

Constructivist conflict research – esp. discourse theory (Foucault) and Critical Discourse Analysis (Jäger).

Religion and conflict – from 2004 to 2006 organised and interdisciplinary lecture series on this topic with regional focus on Near East; edited an anthology on this topic, published in May 2006.

Since 10/2008 - Co-editor of the German Peace Report

04/04 – 03/07 - Research fellow (peace research) at the Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (FEST) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Since 10/05 - lecturer at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at Hamburg University.

01/04–04/04 - internship at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

Since 10/02 - author of monthly book reviews for the Journal for Political Science (German).

Languages – English, French, Spanish; Basic knowledge of Hebrew and Arabic

Field research – July 2006 and October-December 2005 Israel and Palestinian Territories,  October 2004 Jordan and Turkey; July-September 1999 Eire and Northern Ireland

Membership – Women in International Security Germany (WIIS.de); German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO); Alumni network „Master  of Peace and Security Studies“ M.P.S. Hamburg e.V. (founding member); Alumni network DAAD