Prevention structures against foreign-related extremism , Date: 2023.08.07, format: project (current), area: Authority

The Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is conducting a research project on the prevention of foreign-related extremism (AEX). The most important goal of the study is to survey the experiences and needs of prevention work in this area and, based on this, to develop policy recommendations.

The structures of secondary and tertiary prevention of extremism in Germany are mainly differentiated according to phenomena. Throughout Germany, there are state and civil society prevention programs against right-wing extremism and Islamism, and in some states also against left-wing extremism. There are also some services that take a cross-phenomenon approach. Currently, the need for counseling in the area of foreign-related extremism is increasing. At the same time, however, there is a lack of a robust scientific basis for prevention work in this area, as there has been little research on AEX in Germany to date. Also, the empirical knowledge already gathered in various counseling centers has hardly been systematically recorded so far.

The study aims to support the development of prevention structures in the field of AEX in Germany. To this end, an inventory of existing secondary and tertiary prevention services in this field will first be made and previous experience will be bundled and made available. On this basis, needs will be identified and recommendations developed, also with regard to the points at which experience from prevention work against Islamism and right-wing extremism can be built upon and where other approaches are necessary.