Duration: 09/2026 - 01/2031
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.