Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence
Bielefeld University

Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung


current projects

  • 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
  • Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit (GMF-Survey 2002-2012)

    • past projects

  • Immigration, Figuration, Conflict: A Comparative Social Space Analysis in Bradford and Duisburg)
  • Sexual Harassment and Sociosexuality
  • Evaluation Antisemitismus
  • Cyberbullying among pupils 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


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