Institute for Strategic Dialogue

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The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is an independent think tank founded in 2006 on intercommunal conflict , extremism and terrorism with headquarters in London and offices in Washington, DC , Beirut and Toronto . The focus is on research and analysis of extremism as well as the design and implementation of preventive and countermeasures.

history

George Weidenfeld is the founder of the institute, which is registered in the United Kingdom as a non-governmental organization , and Sasha Havlicek has been Chief Executive Officer since 2006 .

In the mid-1990s, Weidenfeld founded the Club of Three , which brought together leading representatives of political, cultural and public life from Great Britain, France and Germany for informal discussions on issues relating to the further development of Europe. The aim was to promote cooperation and understanding within Europe. In 2006 the Club of Three began establishing the Institute for Strategic Dialogue as an umbrella organization for the Club of Three and its various offshoots . Associated with this was a reorientation towards longer-term programs in the areas of combating extremism, education and Europe's global position. Weidenfeld was president of the institute until his death, then Michael Lewis, who u. a. the South African fashion retail chain Froschini belongs to this position.

The Board of Directors of the ISD includes a. Roland Berger , Mathias Döpfner , Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank , Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws , Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings , David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury and Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell .

Focus

The main focus of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue is:

  • In extremism research , the ISD analyzes online and offline content, auditorium and networks on threats from violent extremism.
  • Empowering grassroots networks as independent, grassroots networks so that they can act at the forefront with local know-how and credibility to reduce the risk of extremist actions.
  • Communication and technology to manage appropriate responses to extremist messages through the use of data, technology and marketing tactics.
  • Conception of educational programs to promote the ability to think critically as well as social and emotional learning and thus reduce the susceptibility of young people to extremism.
  • Politics and advice: 15 governments and 100 cities worldwide are supported and advised by the ISD. This also includes an exchange of best practice between political decision-makers and practitioners to coordinate programs against extremism.

Projects (selection)

Studies, research projects and projects carried out by the ITS regularly received extensive reception in the leading media :

  • Organization of meetings between Chinese journalists and European journalists, including representatives of weekly newspapers that are critical of Chinese standards
  • Research on the topic of "Counter Narratives", roughly translatable into German as "Counter narratives". With this, the ISD, together with Facebook and Google , is striving to find means that young people in particular do not only receive information from a filter bubble and thus easily become victims of terrorists who recruit young people via social media.
  • In a study carried out together with activists from #Ichbinhier , 3,000 reports and 18,000 comments on Facebook were analyzed in January 2018. The ISD researchers found that only 5% of the accounts were responsible for 50% of the likes in hate comments in January 2018 , a hard core of 1% of the accounts accounted for a quarter of them.
  • The research project "Women and Extremism" investigated why women are radicalized into violent extremist networks in order to find ways and means to prevent these processes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue ( Memento from December 16, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ ISD Board . , accessed on February 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ ISD programs . , accessed on February 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ https://www.counterextremism.org/
  5. ↑ http://www.counternarratives.org/
  6. ↑ http://extremedialogue.org/educational-resources/
  7. ↑ http://strongcitiesnetwork.org
  8. ^ Anne Applebaum , Peter Pomerantsev : How the Kremlin destabilizes German democracy . In: The world . 5th December 2017.
  9. ^ Anne Applebaum , Peter Pomerantsev , Melanie Smith, Chloe Colliver: "Make Germany great again". Kremlin, Alt-Right and International Influences in the 2017 German Elections. In: Institute for Strategic Dialogue , London, December 2017.
  10. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : What should all change . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 19, 2011.
  11. ↑ Eva Wolfangel: Targeted ( dis ) information . In: The time . 16th February 2017.
  12. ↑ Information package on the subject of counter-speech . In: Institute for Strategic Dialogue . June 2016.
  13. ↑ Melanie Amann, Marcel Rosenbach : Facebook announces initiative for “counter-speech” . In: Der Spiegel . January 18, 2016.
  14. ^ Svea Eckert, Patrick Gensing : Loud minority . In: faktenfinder.tagesschau.de . 20th February 2018.
  15. ↑ Lena Kampf: How right-wing internet trolls tried to influence the federal election . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 20th February 2018.
  16. ↑ Erin Saltmann, Melanie Smith: Till Martyrdom Do Us Part . In: Institute for Strategic Dialogue . February 2016.
  17. ↑ Elisalex Henckel von Donnersmarck: "If the IS shows women with weapons, it scares us" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 4th July 2015.
  18. ↑ Katrin Bennhold: Jihad and Girl Power: How ISIS Lured 3 London Girls . In: New York Times . 17th August 2015.
  19. ↑ Julia Ebner : Why neo-Nazis and Islamists are the secret winners of cryptocurrencies . In: Focus . January 25, 2018.
  20. ↑ The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin . In: The Guardian . January 24, 2018.