current projects

• Social Constellations Explaining Violence
• The Image of the Stranger - On the Symbolic Construction of Conflicts over Islamic Spatial Symbols
• Die Bedeutung von Kohärenzsinn und sozialen Ressourcen für die Integration und Individuation von Jugendlichen
• Serial offenders during adolescence. Social backgrounds and future prospects.
• Group-Focused Enmity in Europe
• Graduiertenkolleg 884: "Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit"
• Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Gesellschaft: Untersuchung des Wissensaustausches zwischen Wissenschaftlern und zivilgesellschaftlichen sowie staatlichen Akteuren
• Cyberbullying among pupils

past projects

• Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit (GMF-Survey 2002-2012)
• Immigration, Figuration, Conflict: A Comparative Social Space Analysis in Bradford and Duisburg)
• Sexual Harassment and Sociosexuality
• Evaluation Antisemitismus
• Recognition Deficits and Careers of Violence
• Citizen/Authority Contacts
• The scientific monitoring and evaluation of the CIVITAS programme
• Integration, Interaction, and the Development of Prejudices and a Propensity for Violence in Youths
• Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in European Cities
• Disintegration Processes - Strengthening the Integration Potential of Modern Society (Research network)
• Research Program "The Social and Political Impact of Erosion of Solidarity"
• Social Disintegration Processes and Ethnic-Cultural Conflict Constellations in Urban Areas
• Group Focused Enmity in Europe
• Intergroup Conflicts in Small Towns with minorities stemming from Eastern Europe
• Collective Identity Formation by Muslims in Public Conflicts
• Fear of Violence
• Post-Crime Conflict Regulation: The Fear of Crime and Variations in Reporting Offenses Depending on the Age and Ethnicity of Offenders
• Control of Violence
• Conflicts of Norms and Violence: Descriptions and Explanations of the Situation and Behavior of Juvenile Emigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Germany and Israel.
• Wissenschaftliche Begleitung der Online Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus
• The Responce of Police to interethnic Conflicts in different urban contexts
• Modellprojekt "Sozialraumanalysen zum Zusammenleben vor Ort"
• Social relations and conflict potentials in the context of experiences of denied participation and appreciation of youth with and without a migrant background
• How Urban Societies Deal with Right-wing Extremism and Xenopobia
• Evaluation of the State Program "Cosmopolitan Saxony" for Democracy and Tolerance
• Wirtschaftseliten zwischen Konkurrenzdruck und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung
• Knowledge Exchange - Interaction and Communication between Researchers and Practitioners
• Conditions and Consequences of Ethnic Colony Formation
• Öffentliche Gewalt im Stadtquartier
• Conflict on Islamic Symbols