Abstracts der Konferenzbeiträge „Radikalisierung und kollektive Gewalt“
Virtuelle Konferenz der Sektion Junge AfK – 16. und 17. März 2021
Workshop 4: Radikale Gesellschaft meets Deradikalisierungsansätze – theoretische Bestandsaufnahmeder aktuellen Forschung im Kontext praktischer Lösungsstrategien by Lilly Kannegiesser
Unsere Gesellschaft sieht sich mit den verschiedensten Formen von politischer und religiöser Radikalisierung konfrontiert. Es scheint, als würden Extremismen im Laufe der Jahre immer deutlicher und immer bedrohlicher ihren Weg in die Mitte der Gesellschaft finden. Der Mord an Walter Lübcke, die Anschläge von Hanau und Halle sowie auf den Berliner Weihnachtsmarkt und der Einzug…
Panel 6: An rassistische Gewalt erinnern. Der Konflikt um das Mahnmal auf der Kölner Keupstraße by Ornella Gessler
Der Nationalsozialistische Untergrund (NSU) verübte zwei rassistische Anschläge in Köln: im Januar 2001 wurde ein Sprengsatz in einem Lebensmittelladen in der Kölner Innenstadt gelegt und verletzte dabei eine Person; im Juni 2004 wurden in der Kölner Keupstraße über zwanzig Menschen von einer Nagelbombe verletzt. Die Keupstraße liegt in Köln-Mülheim, einem seit vielen Jahren migrantisch geprägten…
Workshop: Radikalisierung im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs? – Kontrafaktische Diskussion zu Narrativen in der Reaktion auf jihadistische Anschläge in Europa by Mareike Edler
Es ist eine in der Terrorismusforschung ebenso wie in der Presse weit verbreitete Kritik am „War on Terrorism“-Narrativ als Reaktion auf jihadistischen Terrorismus und der Art von Maßnahmen, die es legitimiert hat: Dass jeder Drohnenangriff mit zivilen Opfern den jihadistischen Organisationen mehr Sympathisant*innen in die Hände spiele. Das Argument ist, dass die Gewalt gegen Zivilist*innen…
Workshop: Polarisierende Konflikte um Demokratie – ein Feld für Friedenspädagogik? by Annalena Groppe
Während Konflikte und Räume zu ihrer Transformation den sozialen Zusammenhalt stärken, kann Polarisierung, also die Bündelung unterschiedlicher Konfliktthemen entlang einer dualistischen Trennlinie zwischen homogenisierten Gruppen, Radikalisierungsprozesse verstärken (Weller 2013). Rechtspopulistische Stimmen in Deutschland bestärken eine solche Bündelung aktuell am Gegenstand Demokratie, indem sie ‚das unterdrückte Volk‘ einer ‚korrupten Elite‘ gegenüberstellen (Hirschmann 2017). Darüber werden Themen…
Workshop: Extremismus und die Wissenschaft im postdigitalen Zeitalter – Chancen, Hürden und Perspektiven der Erforschung einer digitalen Welt by Stephen Albrecht
Die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen, die durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche hervorgerufen werden, wirken sich auch verstärkt auf die Wissenschaft aus. Sie verändert die wissenschaftliche Praxis, beschleunigt Kommunikation und Transfer von Wissen, erleichtert Dokumentation und Recherche. Kurzum: Digitalisierung baut in der der Wissenschaft viele Hürden ab, sie scheint die Wissenschaft demokratischer zu machen. Die Wissenschaft reagiert…
Panel 7: “Imagining Post-Liberal Peace(s) – Engaging Peacebuilding Scholarship with Anarchist Literature” by Jonas Rusche
Peacebuilding scholarship has for some time now been shaped by critical theory, beginning with the ‘first’ and ‘second’ ‘local turn’ (Lederach 2010) and then the invent of post-colonial, poststructuralist and feminist literature.1 This critical scholarship holds powerful analysis’s of existing power structures and social relations at large as it criticizes hierarchies, exposes exploitation and points…
Panel 7: Peace(s) in times of coloniality’ by Christina Pauls
Interpretations of peace are seen to be central to human communities, as they provide the ground and set the tone for determining and legitimizing practical approaches to peacebuilding, including the measures to reach these goals (Woodhouse and Lederach 2017, 56). Ultimately, all questions that concern peace centrifugate from a root question of the legitimate definition…
Panel 6: A discussion about the mimetic violence against migrants and refugees in Turkey and in Europe by Günes Koc
This paper will analyse radicalisation and collective violence against migrants and refugees with reference to Rene Girard’s concept of mimetical violence and mimetical rivalry. Rene Girard’s concept of mimetic theory posits mimetic desire, which leads to natural rivalry and to the scapegoat mechanism (Girard, 1977; 1989). Girard proposed that societies unify their imitative desires around…
Panel 6: Radicalization and the role of history in radicalization processes in the Cameroonian Diaspora by Christoph Kühne
Almost any socio-political phenomenon in African countries is impacted by a diaspora which is mainly positioned in the west. Millions of expatriates living in socially and financially more stable countries leave an impact to their home countries, as they provide their relatives at home with financial support. This support, however, goes beyond mere financial support.…
Panel 5: Men under Arms: (Violent) Masculinities and their Formation in Insurgent and Paramilitary Armed Groups in Colombia by Julian Reiter
In my final thesis, I aim to answer the question of how violent (or militarised) masculinities are construed and reproduced within armed groups. To do so, I analyse the gendered dimension of pertinent structure and practices of two armed groups central to Colombia’s long-lasting civil war – that is the communist guerrilla FARC-EP and the…
Panel 5: Representation of ‘Kurdish Female Fighters’ in Western Cinema by Nilgün Yelpaze
On the 25th of January 2021, Hollywood sources reported that former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her daughter are planning to develop their own TV-Series on Kurdish female self-defense units YPJ (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin) of North-East Syria. This is not the first time the Kurdish women involved in armed conflict gained attention from…
Panel 5: UNHCRs Frames about Women and Girls in Educative Documents about SGBV by Nina Marie Rösler
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) remains since its foundation in 1950 the largest actor in the field of refugee protection (UNHCR, 2020a). Working together with more than 900 partners, the organization sets globally accepted norms and standards and influences the live of millions of people who were forced to leave their homes…
Panel 4: Community-focused/based Counter Radicalization Projects: What Have we Learnt? by Kawser Ahmed
Radicalization to violence denotes a socio-ideological process that transforms an apparently normal person to an extremist committed to violent action (i.e. terrorist acts). Given radicalization’s wide spectrum and since it is viewed both as a process and a phenomenon, experts maintain that tracking people being radicalized or have already been radicalized towards violence is nearly…
Panel 4: Time for Talks? Negotiations with Terrorist Groups and the Impact of Norms by Anna Mühlhausen
The question of the factors that condition and predict the onset of negotiations is a core of discussions in the field of conflict management, despite more than 30 years of research. Numerous concepts for explanation based on approaches of the 1980s and 1990s with the increasing professionalization of mediation and conflict management, but also by…
Panel 4: Does “Terrorism” make sense? A case study by Ramzi Merhej
This paper approaches political (de)radicalization from the conflict transformation lenses (Lederach, 2015) to analyze the data collected in a case study, which was conducted in Lebanon in 2017 and 2018. This study includes seven semistructured in-depth interviews with seven ex-combatants and one set of focus group interviews with twenty ex-combatants. The analysis of the generated…
Panel 3: The (non-)escalation of violence during ‘acte III’ of the ‘yellow vest’ mobilizations: A critique of micro-sociological theories of violence“ by Oliver Unverdorben
This paper engages with the causes of violence in situations of organized demonstrations and protests. In a first step, it develops a theoretical critique of micro-sociological approaches to violence, problematizing the dissociation of interactions in a given situation from the broader social context in which they are embedded. Subsequently, it empirically substantiates these claims by…
Panel 3: Correlates for Foreign Fighters in Tunisia. In how far is foreign fighter mobilization in Tunisia linked to protest? by Julius Strunk
Tunisia, the Arab Uprising and the subsequent democratic transition period were marked by a high number of protests and at the same time, Tunisia was one of the main suppliers of foreign fighters for the civil war in Syria and other violent conflicts in the Middle East. While this was puzzling for some researchers as…
Panel 2: Corporal punishment as a pathway to processes of radicalization; The case of Uganda by Sssembatya
This paper draws attention to the influence of corporal punishment as a pathway to processes of radicalization, the societal neglecting and legal limitations. Although corporal punishment is generally perceived as a deterrent of wrong and means to ameliorate behavior, the scholar anticipates the intention and impact of corporal punishment creates a social relation conflict and…
Panel 2: The Quest for Social Justice in Jihadist Online Propaganda: The Case of Tunisia by Clara-Auguste Süß
those countries that experienced the so-called Arab uprisings of 2010/11, Tunisia is the only one that has been called a ‘shining example’ of a successfully initiated transition to democracy. Yet at the same time, numerous violent groups have emerged and Islamist radicalization has been on the rise. This becomes apparent at two level of analysis:…
Panel 2: Radicalization of behavior as a by-product of combatant socialization: the case of the U.S Army in Vietnam by Marie-Therese Meye
INTRODUCTION Over the course of the last decade, “radicalization” has become a prevalent analytical paradigm to explain and interpret phenomena of political violence, most notably in research on jihadist terrorism and Western “foreign fighters” in Iraq and Syria. As part of this focus on non-state actors, radicalization has come to be predominantly understood as the…
Panel 2: Collective emotions and organised political violence by Dr. Maéva Clément
Emotion and narrative are both characteristic of human activity. They become particularly visible around political conflicts. Much like other political actors, Islamist organisations tell political narratives to cast their struggle in morally, politically, culturally and esthetically appealing ways. Yet, what happens narratively when political actors move away from non-violent politics towards advocating and/or engaging in…
Panel 1: Living in Conflict: The Conflict – Development Relationship, in a Context of Conflict over Territorial Limits (a Case Study conducted in La Paz-Bolivia by María Fernanda Córdova Suxo
In Bolivia, there is an average of 74 social conflicts per month. The nature of these conflicts is mostly due to discrepancies between the demands of the population and the inability of public institutions to respond to them. For decades this high index has been a daily feature. As an apparent 3paradox, it is only…
Panel 1: the Biya method: Cameroon between state and social radicalization by Dolly Katiutia Alima Afoumba
Since the re-emergence of social and political protests in Cameroun, the state has been particularly involved in acts of violence, abuses as well as arbitrary arrests of civil society leaders and political opponents. The so called “Anglophone problem” which re-started in 2016 with administrative protests and social revendications of some teachers and Lawyers from the…
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