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Violence

Jannis Grimm

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research

Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Protest and social movements
  • Civil society
  • Radicalization and political violence
  • Human rights violations and state violence
  • Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
  • North Africa
  • Near/Middle East
  • Democratization and social transformation
  • Arab Spring
  • Islamism
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • Research ethics
  • Safe field research
  • Research conditions in authoritarian contexts

Dr. Bettina Hannover
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Department of Education
Research on Schools and Teaching

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Differential development of girls and boys
  • Gender roles, family
  • Influence of the parental home
  • Violence
  • Adolescents
  • Nursery schools and schools
  • Academic development of children and young people with immigrant background
  • Self and identity

Dr. Markus Kienscherf
Professor of Sociology

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Police in the United States
  • Protests
  • Social control
  • Surveillance
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Political violence

Dr. Robert Kindler

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
History of Eastern Europe

Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Eastern Europe (Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Stalinism, memory culture)
  • special regional expertise: Kazakhstan, Siberia, North Pacific

Dr. Christine Knaevelsrud
Professor of Clinical Psychology

Department of Education and Psychology
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Clinical-Psychological Intervention

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Psychological effects of war, torture, and civilian trauma
  • Online therapy

Dr. Hans Merkens
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Empirical Education

Fabeckstraße 69, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Transformation of the education system
  • Youth violence
  • Problems in teaching children with migration background
  • Situation of immigrant children in elementary and secondary education
  • Multi-track systems in secondary education
  • Success of structural changes in the school system

Dr. Herbert Scheithauer
Professor of Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology

Department of Education and Psychology
Developmental Science and Applied Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology an Clinical Psychology

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Mass shootings
  • School shootings
  • Aggression: development & prevention
  • Mobbing / bullying
  • Cyberbullying
  • Radicalization, de-radicalization, anti-radicalization
  • Crime / delinquency
  • School violence
  • Maladjustment
  • Promoting development
  • Developmental psychology
  • Prevention
  • Social competence
  • Civic engagement
  • Fair play
  • Civil courage

Dr. Ralf Schlechtweg-Jahn

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Medieval German Literature and Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • German literature of the Middle Ages
  • Literary theory, especially narratology
  • Religion in medieval literature
  • Power and violence in medieval literature
  • Medieval reception
  • Computer games

Dr. Regine Schönenberg

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Latin American Studies

Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Organized crime
  • Natural resource management
  • Land management
  • Intercultural learning
  • Biography research
  • Scenario research

Dr. Jochen Töpfer

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
  • Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
  • Privatization
  • Informality and neo-feudalism
  • Parties and political elites
  • Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
  • Religion and society
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and conflict

Dr. Mihai Varga

Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
  • Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe