Lotta Rahlf

Lotta Rahlf

Researcher
Research Department:
Transnational Politics
Research Group Radicalization

Contact

E-Mail: rahlf@prif.org

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CV

Since 2023	PhD Student in the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network VORTEX at PRIF
2023	Researcher in the research project PrEval at PRIF
2022	Intern at the Mobile Counseling Service against Right-Wing Extremism Berlin
2022	Lord Sedwill Handa CSTPV Dissertation Prize
2022	Research Associate at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, in the research project “Constraining Violence” (CREST)
2022	Research Associate at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, in the Campbell study “Case management interventions seeking to counter radicalisation to violence”
2022	MLitt Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
2021–2022	Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service
2021	B.A. International Relations and International Organization, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
2018–2023	Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation

Expertise

Lotta Rahlf is working on the following issues:

Radicalization
Right-wing extremist violence and movements
Terrorism
Conspiracy ideologies

Publications

How Do We Know What Works in Preventing Violent Extremism? Evidence and Trends in Evaluation from 14 Countries | 2024: Bressan, Sarah / Ebbecke, Sophia / Rahlf, Lotta (2024): How Do We Know What Works in Preventing Violent Extremism? Evidence and Trends in Evaluation from 14 Countries, GPPI Report, 8.7.2024.; Show details

Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Europe: Expert Views on Contemporary Challenges | 2024: Rahlf, Lotta (2024): Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Europe: Expert Views on Contemporary Challenges, VORTEX Blog, 3.7.2024.; Show details

Participatory Theatre for Preventing Violent Extremism Through Education – Reflections on Prospects and Preconditions | 2024: Rahlf, Lotta (2024): Participatory Theatre for Preventing Violent Extremism Through Education – Reflections on Prospects and Preconditions, in: Journal for Deradicalization, Summer 2024:39, 77–93, https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/909.; Show details

Re-focusing Family Counselling in Extremism Prevention | 2024: Rahlf, Lotta (2024): Re-focusing Family Counselling in Extremism Prevention, VORTEX Blog, 15.5.2024.; Show details

Case management interventions seeking to counter radicalisation to violence and related forms of violence: A systematic review | 2024: Lewis, James / Marsden, Sarah / Cherney, Adrian / Rahlf, Lotta / Squires, Chloe / Peterschek, Anne (2024): Case management interventions seeking to counter radicalisation to violence and related forms of violence: A systematic review, in: Campbell Systematic Reviews, 20:2, DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1386.; Show details

Historical Context and the Good Lives Model | 2024: Rahlf, Lotta (2024): Historical Context and the Good Lives Model, CREST Report, 11.4.2024.; Show details

On the challenges of evaluating efforts to prevent a causally complex phenomenon such as violent extremism | 2024: Rahlf, Lotta (2024): On the challenges of evaluating efforts to prevent a causally complex phenomenon such as violent extremism, VORTEX Blog, 21.2.2024.; Show details

Evaluating extremism prevention efforts: Insights from 14 countries | 2023: Rahlf, Lotta / Ebbecke, Sophia / Bressan, Sarah / Herz, Angela (2023): Evaluating extremism prevention efforts: Insights from 14 countries. Interview with the PrEval working package on International Monitoring, PrEval, 18.12.2023.; Show details

Good Lives in Right-Wing Extremist Autobiographies | 2023: Rahlf, Lotta / Paalgard Munden, Hanna / Marsden, Sarah / Bhuiyan, Kamruzzaman / Rigault Arkhis, Hanna / Taylor, Aimee (2023): Good Lives in Right-Wing Extremist Autobiographies, 10.10.2023.; Show details

From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization | 2023: Rahlf, Lotta (2023): From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization, in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2169894.; Show details

End-to-End Encryption and Counterterrorism – Untying the Gordian Knot with State Hacking? | 2022: Lotta Rahlf, End-to-End Encryption and Counterterrorism – Untying the Gordian Knot with State Hacking?, St Andrews, Scotland: The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, 2022, 23, https://cstpv.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/occasional-papers/.; Show details

Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees | 2021: Rahlf, Lotta (2021): Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees, in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2021.2017395.; Show details

Is the Nature of War Changing? Time to Avoid a Supposedly Unavoidable Question | 2021: Rahlf, Lotta (2021): Is the Nature of War Changing? Time to Avoid a Supposedly Unavoidable Question, 11.6.2021.; Show details

Current Projects