Within the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFTR) funding programme "Societal Causes and Effects of Radical Islam in Germany and Europe", twelve projects are conducting research on the many facets of the phenomenon of radical Islam: What are the reasons for the increase in Islamist tendencies in the German-speaking and European areas? How do Islamist movements affect specific social groups or society as a whole? And what are the implications of these findings for the work of prevention practitioners, politicians and administrators, civil society, security authorities, and the media? Researchers from many different disciplines are investigating these and other questions from a wide variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives in the period from 2020 to 2025.
This website pools the activities and results of the individual research projects. In addition, it provides cross-project findings generated by networking and dialogue-based collaboration within the RADIS knowledge transfer project.
Our RADIS edited volume is now available online (in German). It focuses on the causes of radicalisation, broader societal dynamics and interdependencies, prevention strategies, as well as political, media, and civil society discourses. The volume offers valuable insights for academic research and practical work in the fields of Islamism and radicalisation.
After more than four years of intensive research, the RADIS research network presented its findings to a broad audience.
Read the report
The report and further impressions of our Interdisciplinary Symposium 2024 on February 22 & 23, 2024 at ZIF Bielefeld.
Now available for download – Short Versions of our edited volume “Islamism as a Societal Challenge” in Arabic, English, French and Turkish.
Being the core of RADIS, the clusters enable researchers to engage in discussion beyond their own individual projects and teams, to learn from each other, and to establish new collaborations. At the same time, these working groups represent important research threads of the research programme.
Insights into the Crisis Talk "The ageless scourge of antisemitism and the protection of Jewish life in Europe – What can we do?" on March 5, 2024 at the Hessian State Representation in Brussels.
As part of #InsideRADIS, we visited the twelve research projects and produced a series of short films featuring the researchers. In these short video interviews, they share insights into their research and explain the approaches they use as well as the challenges that shape their work.
