The cooperation of civil society and security authority actors in the prevention of extremism and its evaluation pose a particular challenge. Here, very different actors with highly divergent concepts and working methods come together. Further requirements arise from data protection and from various aspects of confidentiality and secrecy.
How can evaluation contribute to the development of a trusting, respectful and constructive interaction in which practice-relevant results are exchanged, reflected and preserved among the actors involved? And what opportunities and challenges do cooperating actors associate with evaluation? Julian Junk, Svetla Koynova, Vivienne Ohlenforst, Maximilian Ruf and Lea Scheu address these questions in the new PRIF Report by the PrEval project. On the basis of 40 semi-structured interviews, they explore these questions, structure the needs and derive recommendations for professional practice, research, politics and administration.
External Authors
Svetla Koynova is a political scientist and research associate at Violence Prevention Network (VPN). Vivienne Ohlenforst is a political scientist and research associate at Violence Prevention Network (VPN) and modus|zad in Berlin. Maximilian Ruf is an Islamic and social scientist. He is deputy head of the science department at Violence Prevention Network (VPN).
Further information on the project “PrEval – Evaluation Designs for Prevention Measures” at preval.hsfk.de (in German).