Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name
Dr. Regine Schönenberg
Address
Wiesenburgerstr. 18
14827 Wiesenburg/Mark
Date of Birth
22.04.1961
City of Birth
Aachen/NRW
Nationality
German
Principal Interests
Interdependence between social inclusion/
exclusion, natural resource management and
organized crime; inter- and transdisciplinary
science communication
Education
Political Scientist, PhD
Free University Berlin
London School of Economics (LSE)
University of Bonn
Research Projects
Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at
Free University Berlin, Boltzmannstr. 4, 14195
Berlin - currently:
NoPa – Agrarian and Environmental Law in the
Amazon, DAAD/GIZ – 2016-2017 &
Carbiocial/SP 14 – Green House Gas
optimized land use and management in
Southern Amazonia (www.carbiocial.de),
BMBF/FONA – 2011-2016
Drugs and Democracy, UNESCO/MOST –
1997-2002
The Criminalization of Social Transformation
in the Amazon, Pós-doc-project DFG/Goethe
University Frankfurt - 1999-2001
Environmental Conflict Programme (ENCOP)
with Swiss Peace Foundation - 1994-1996
The mode of social reproduction in the
Amazon, ORSTOM/CNRS-project - 1992-1994
Land conflicts in the Amazon, PhD-project,
DAAD -1990-93
Further Activities
Coordinator PPG7-GTZ, 1994-1996, GTZ/GIZ
consultant – ever since; initiator of “Between
Lecture Hall and Project Work”; team member
Compass Orange GmbH www.compassorange.de
Current Voluntary Work
Refugee Support in Wiesenburg/Mark
Memberships
DVPW (German Association of Political
Scientists, Working Group: Orders of Violence,
Jour Fix Organized Crime – Berlin, DKN
Future Earth Working Group on Positive
Impacts of Land Use Change, GIZ-Steering
Committee “Between Lecture Hall and Project
Work”, Scientific Board TU-Berlin
UrbanLabPlus, Ost-West-Forum Gut Gödelitz
Language Skills
German, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Publications
Schönenberg, R. et al.: Inter- and transdisciplinary scenario construction to
explore future land use options in Southern Amazonia, in review
Schönenberg, R. et al.: Methods of inter- and transdisciplinary research – a
trajectory of knowledge integration, in review
Schönenberg, R. K. Hartberger, Ch. Schumann: What comes after
deforestation control? Learning from three attempts of land use planning in
Southern Amazônia, in: GAIA 02/2015, p. 119-127
Schumann, Ch., K. Hartberger, M. Klingler, R. Schönenberg: Sempre ´pra
frente. Histórias de vida da BR 163, Editora Olhares, 2015
Schönenberg, R. K. Hartberger, Ch. Schumann: Challenges and Chances of
social Transformation for GHG-optimized Land- and Natural Resource
Management Strategies: Stakeholder-Dialogues as Prerequisite for the
Elaboration of Applicable Results, in: Gerold, G., H.F. Jungkunst, K.M.
Wantzen, R. Schönenberg, et.al..: Interdisciplinary Analysis and Modeling of
Carbon-Optimized Land Management Strategies for Southern Amazonia,
Göttingen, 2014
Schönenberg, R. u. Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Transnational Organized Crime –
Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy, Transcript, 2013
Schönenberg, R.: Roots of Organized Crime in the Amazon, in: Transnational
Organized Crime – Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy, Transcript,
2013: 189-198
Schönenberg, R.: Viel Land – Viel Streit. Konflikte und
Konfliktlösungsstrategien in Amazonien, Bielefeld, 2011
Schönenberg, R.: Gewalt, Kriminalität und Drogenhandel, in: Brasilien
Heute, Berlin 2010
Schönenberg, R.: Prioridades y desafíos en la cooperación ambiental entre
Europa y América Latina: un comentario,in: IBEROAMERICANA,
Berlin/Hamburg 2008 (Prioritäten und Herausforderungen in der
Umweltkooperation zwischen Europa und Lateinamerika– ein Kommentar)
Schönenberg, R.: A ciência na Amazônia Brasileira: um potencial para o
futuro da região?, in: O Brasil na América Latina: interações, percepções,
interdependências; Sérgio Costa, Hartmut Sangmeister, Sonja Steckbauer –
organizadores, Editora Anablume, Sao Paulo, 2008 (Science in the Brazilian
Amazon: a future potential?)
Schönenberg, R. & Scholz, Imme: Mainstreaming project results into
national public policies for forest protection and sustainable management of
natural resources: the case of the PPG7 (Pilot Programme to Conserve the
Brazilian Rainforests), in: From Project to Policy Reform, GDI (German
Development Institute), Bonn 2007
Schönenberg, R. & Edna Castro: Formas e Causas da Criminalização da
Transformação Social na Amazônia Brasileira, in: Sustentabilidade e Espaço
Público na Amazônia Brasileira, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG),
Belém 2004 (Forms and Causes of Criminalization of Social Transformation
in the Brazilian Amazon)
Schönenberg, R. : Die Gestaltung rechtsfreier Räume in Brasilien – Beispiele
aus dem ländlichen und dem urbanen Raum, in: ADLAF-Tagung Brasilien
Berlin 2003 (Shaping lawless environments in Brazil: examples from rural
and urban regions)
Schönenberg, R.: Transnationale Schattenökonomie im brasilianischen
Amazonasgebeit, in: Peter Lock (Hrsg.): Transnationale Schattenökonomie,
Bonn: Dietz 2003 (Transnational Shadow Economy)
Schönenberg, R.: Die Kriminalisierung gesellschaftlicher
Transformationsprozesse – Der Fall des brasilianischen Amazonasgebiets,
HSFK-Report 9/2002 (The Criminalization of Social Transformation)
Schönenberg, R.: Drug Trafficking in the Brazilian Amazon, in: Globalization,
Drugs and Criminalisation – Drug Trafficking, Criminal Organisa-tions and
Money Laundering Part 2, MOST/UN-ODCCP, 2002:174-205
Schönenberg, R.: “Der nackte König” – Drogenhandel und gesellschaftlicher
Sittenverfall in Brasilien, in: Blühende Geschäfte: Drogenhandel in
Lateinamerika, LA-Nachrichten 333, 2002:25-28 (The Naked King: Drug
Trafficking and Decay of Public Moral in Brazil)
Schönenberg, R.: „New Criminal Domains in the Brazilian Amazon”, in:
International Social Science Journal (ISSJ), 2001, No. 169.
Schönenberg, R.: “Lessons from the Brazilian Amazon”, in: SEMINAR
504:23-26, New Delhi
Schönenberg, R. (ed.): „Internationaler Drogenhandel und gesellschaftliche
Transformation“, Wiesbaden, 2000 (International Drug Trafficking and Social
Transformation)
Brock, Lothar & Schönenberg, Regine: „Zwischen Privatisierung und
Internationalisierung – Die Zukunft des staatlichen Gewaltmonopols“, in:
Regine Schönenberg (Hrsg.), “ Internationaler Drogenhandel und
gesellschaftliche Transformation“, 2000, s. 7-32 (Between Privatization and
Internationalization – The Future of the State Monopoly of Violence)
Schönenberg, R.: „Wo verläuft die Grenze“, in: Grenzenlose Gesellschaft? 29.
Kongress der DGS in Freiburg, Opladen 1999:497-509

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