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Spot On | Michael Fürstenberg – The Collective Learning of a Transnational Right-Wing Extremist Community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvDbiEjzH6M

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper 210

December 2022
“Communities of Hateful Practice: The collective learning of accelerationist right-wing extremists, with a case study of the Halle synagogue attack” by Michael Fürstenberg

Space, Place and Identity - Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century

29 November 2022
Florian Köhler talks about the Wodaabe, which are nown as highly mobile cattle nomads in Niger and a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration in this podcast with New Books Network.

Gehen oder Bleiben?

November 2022
Never staying in one place for long - this has always been the daily life of the Wodaabe, a traditionally nomadic population group in Niger. But since the 1980s, more and more of them have been settling in cities to work.
In his dissertation project, which is printed in the new Max Planck Forschung (3/2022), Florian Köhler observed how the lives of the Wodaabe have changed.

You can find out more about this project in the detektor.fm podcast. (in German)

Communities of hateful practice – How right-wing terrorism is collectively learning online

26 September - 27 September 2022
Michael Fürstenberg presented at the 7th Max Planck Symposium for Alumni and Early Career Researchers 2022 at Harnack Haus in Berlin.

Wie lernen Terroristen voneinander?

24 August 2022
Christchurch, Halle, Hanau: What distinguishes these attacks from other right-wing terrorist crimes such as the NSU terrorist group's series of murders, among others, is networking - which today often takes place in Internet forums and online communities. Michael Fürstenberg knows how the perpetrators collectively learn from each other online. (in German)


<p><em>2 May 2021<br /></em>A talk about the attack on the Halle synagogue and new developments in right-wing terrorism (in German)</p>

Igor Matviyets spricht mit Michael Fürstenberg über Terrorismus

2 May 2021
A talk about the attack on the Halle synagogue and new developments in right-wing terrorism (in German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbOMmJ4Elo


TV interview with Carolin Görzig on the occasion of the remembrance of the terror attack in Hanau

19 February 2021
Deutsche Welle News





"Woran arbeiten Sie gerade, Carolin Görzig?" Radio interview Deutschlandfunk Kultur

05.08.2020
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Interview with Carolin Görzig, by Nicole Dittmer














Is Terrorist Learning Different?

Is Terrorist Learning Different?

21 November 2019, 9 am - 22 November 2019, 5 pm
Workshop
Organisers: Carolin Görzig, Imad Alsoos, Florian Köhler (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Location: Main Seminar Room
Workshop Report


30 October 2019 What does the future of terrorism look like and what can we learn from past developments? Are there perhaps even typical patterns that can shed light on how terrorist movements emerge and how they develop? Carolin Görzig explores these questions in her twelve-minute talk, in which she also gives insight into field research in Northern Ireland, Tunisia and the Middle East. more

Radio interview with Michael Fürstenberg on the terror attacks in Halle

10 October 2019
MDR Jump

Interview with Michael Fürstenberg, by Bernadette Hirschfelder

De-Radicalization through Double-Loop Learning? How the Egyptian Gamaa Islamija renounced violence

24 September 2019
The article "De-Radicalization through Double-Loop Learning? How the Egyptian Gamaa Islamija renounced violence" by Carolin Görzig appears in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Forschung mit und über Terroristen

03 August 2019
MDR Aktuell
Radio interview with Carolin Görzig


Im Schatten der Zukunft

01 July 2019
The article "Im Schatten der Zukunft" by Michael Fürstenberg and Carolin Görzig appears in the July/August 2019
issue of IP - Die Zeitschrift (Internationale Politik).

Yearbook Highlights of the Max Planck Society 2018
The article "Ways out of Terrorism" ("Wege aus dem Terrorismus") by Carolin Görzig was published in the highlights 2018 from the yearbook of the Max Planck Society.

Spot On − Three Minutes of Anthropology with Imad Alsoos
In these two videos of our series "Spot On - Three Minutes of Anthropology" Imad Alsoos from the research group "How 'Terrorists' learn" talks about his research on islamic mobilisation in Palestine and Tunisia – in English and in Arabic. more

<p>Carolin Görzig talks to Tilo Jung about her terrorism research:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What is terrorism anyway? Is there state terrorism? How do we differentiate between terrorists? What do right-wing extremists and jihadists have in common? <br /><br />(interview in German)</p>

Jung & Naiv: Episode 407

Carolin Görzig talks to Tilo Jung about her terrorism research:

What is terrorism anyway? Is there state terrorism? How do we differentiate between terrorists? What do right-wing extremists and jihadists have in common?

(interview in German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGaKtABIlFU

Latest Thinking: How Do Terrorist Groups Learn and Unlearn Violence?

Author: Carolin Görzig
Length: 12 minutes
Camera operator / Photographer: Florian Wehking

Carolin Görzig explains her current research project in a science video by the open access video journal “Latest Thinking”.

Ways out of violence – interview with Carolin Görzig on Deutschlandfunk

29 July 2018
Carolin Görzig, head of the research group "How 'Terrorists' Learn - Re-considering the tactical and strategic transformation of violent movements and organisations" talked with Florian Felix Weyh about the learning capacity of terrorist groups, the problems with using the term "terrorism", and the ethical questions raised by contact with terrorists. The interview also considers ways out of violence, negotiating with "terrorists" and how members of such groups achieve new self-knowledge and unlearn violence.
 

Lecture Series 2018
Organisers: Carolin Görzig, Michael Fürstenberg (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Location: Seminar Room, New Building, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Poster more

"Can Aid Help Counter Violent Extremism and Terrorism?"

05 December 2017
Participation of Almakan Orozobekova in a debate at the University of London
Organisers: London International Development Centre & The Guardian


Ist der neue Terrorismus von gestern? Ergebnisse und Perspektiven der Terrorismusforschung in Deutschland
13 October 2016, 9 am - 14 October 2016, 5 pm
Workshop
Organisers: Christopher Daase (Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt), Carolin Görzig (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Location: Main Seminar Room, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

more

"Wie lernen Terroristen", Research at the Max Planck Institute

21.12.2015
MDR Sachsen / MDR Info
Interview with Carolin Görzig, by Theo M. Lies



The research group provides scientific support for the theatre play "Djihad Paradise" presented by the Neues Theater in Halle. Flyer "Djihad Paradise" (Neues Theater) more
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