Our team supports researchers in the BMFTR funding line with knowledge transfer. We are responsible for this website and pursue the following goals:
Joint events and regular dialogue are at the core of the accompanying project. This allows us to create methodological and empirical synergies: within interdisciplinary working groups, the scholars discuss research designs and methods as well as core concepts in the field.
We make research findings visible to a broader audience: The projects‘ activities are pooled and presented in videos and podcasts. Because the exchange between research and practice cannot begin early enough, RADIS provides access to a wide range of formats and platforms.
Individual researchers often do not have the resources to bring their findings to policymakers, public administration, and security authorities. Therefore, we enable the dialogue with decision-makers in these sectors. Furthermore, we support the projects in translating their results – in collaboration with people working in the field – into guidelines and practical resources.
The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) in Frankfurt brings long-standing expertise on causes of and approaches to addressing radicalisation and political violence, particularly with regard to Islamist extremism. It is the largest peace and conflict research institute in Germany and has been combining excellent fundamental research with independent policy advice since it was founded 50 years ago. As a Leibniz Institute, PRIF places an emphasis on knowledge transfer and has established a department dedicated to this purpose in 2019. PRIF‘s Berlin office serves as a hub for knowledge transfer into the federal policy landscape, thus providing established networks and formats RADIS can draw on. In the field of "radical Islam", PRIF successfully carried out two high-profile research and knowledge transfer projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), namely "Salafism in Germany" and "Society Extreme". Since 2019, PRIF has been consolidating and expanding its work in the fields of radicalisation and political violence and terrorism by establishing Leibniz research groups and transferring them into permanent structures - thus creating a platform for the realisation the RADIS network as well. Currently, PRIF also coordinates the research network PrEval, which deals with evaluation and quality management in the prevention of extremism.
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University has been studying the foundations, manifestations, and consequences of radicalisation from an interdisciplinary perspective for more than 20 years. Other relevant topics include prejudice and discrimination, migration, acculturation, and integration. The focus lies on empirical analyses of intra-societal conflicts as well as on the coordination of broad networks in research and practice. The IKG has carried out numerous large collaborative projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that included elements of knowledge transfer. In RADIS, the IKG draws on its expertise in organising and coordinating various types of events. In its capacity as publisher of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence, it offers an established publication format for the RADIS network.
The Berlin-based Violence Prevention Network (VPN) has been working with politically or religiously ideologized individuals and their families since 2001. In addition to working on the deradicalisation of violent extremists, the VPN team has acquired nationwide expertise in the field of extremism prevention over the years. VPN's experts work in correctional facilities as well as in their own counseling centers, and offer training for disseminators and workshops for youth. Alongside its work in the field, VPN fosters the integration of research and practice through innovative research and development projects - and thus serves as a unique interface for RADIS for reaching out to the crucial field of prevention practice through various formats of knowledge transfer. Thereby, VPN allows research projects to gain new perspectives and approaches.
Within RADIS, VPN is responsible for knowledge transfer, dialogue with practitioners and internal networking.
The German Council on Preventing Extremism (BAG RelEx) promotes and supports nationwide networking among civil society actors committed to effective, sustainable prevention of religiously motivated extremism. With around 50 member organisations from across Germany, BAG RelEx represents the wide diversity of approaches and measures in the prevention of religiously motivated extremism and reflects many years of experience in the field.
Within RADIS, BAG RelEx helps shape the interface between research and professional practice.
The Hessian University of Public Management and Security (HöMS) is the central institution for initial training, continuing training and professional development for the police and public administration in the state of Hesse. It is extensively networked with other security authorities and police training institutions across Germany. Its Research Unit "Extremism Resilience" is a permanent research institution, unique in Germany, working at the interface between extremism research and security authorities. The unit places particular emphasis on prevention and its evaluation.
Within RADIS, HöMS strengthens networking with security authorities and public administration, and supports reflection on and evaluation of knowledge transfer.
The Legato Project Partner brings together services in systemic disengagement and exit work and in radicalisation prevention, in Hamburg, Bremen and nationwide. The projects are run by Vereinigung Pestalozzi gGmbH and Ambulante Maßnahmen Altona e.V. As one of the leading civil society actors in disengagement and exit work in Germany, the Legato projects have supported clients, their social networks, practitioners and institutions since 2015. The consortium is also an important body for the professionalisation of practitioners.
Within RADIS, Legato helps shape the interface between research and professional practice.
ufuq.de is a nationally active provider of civic education and prevention work on Islam, anti-Muslim racism and Islamism. The association works at the interface between practice and research, for example by documenting and transferring practical approaches in education and youth work. Among other things, ufuq.de is responsible for an online library of learning materials, practical guides and recommendations for action on education and prevention in a migration society, as well as online platforms that bring together background information and materials on topics of particular relevance to prevention.
Within RADIS, ufuq.de helps shape the interface between research and practice, including through a joint series of web talks for practitioners and researchers, produced in cooperation between the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), ufuq.de and RADIS.