Vita
Janina Pawelz is a Non-Resident Fellow at the IFSH. Until 2025, she was the lead coordinator and project leader of the NEOVEX project Patterns and Dynamics of Conspiracy Theories and Right-Wing Extremist Ideologies in Times of Crisis, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. From 2017 to 2021, she worked as a research associate in the BMBF-funded joint research projects PANDORA and KURI at the IFSH, as well as in the Horizon 2020 project CRISEA, funded by the European Commission. At the Leibniz Institute German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), she completed her PhD (2013–2016) on gangs in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. She has also worked multiple times as an international expert for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Janina Pawelz studied at the University of Hamburg and Universitas Udayana, Indonesia.
Research profile
- Democracy and Security
- Radicalization and Mobilization to Violence
- Social Media
- Right-Wing Extremism, New Forms of Extremism, Conspiracy Theories
- Societal Impact & Counterstrategies
Memberships & professional activities
- Member of WIIS Women in International Security
- Co-initiator and strategic advisor of the Federal working group ‘Against hate online’
Selected Publications
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Pawelz, Janina,
Maik Fielitz. 2023.
Misstrauen und Mobilisierung. Verschwörungstheorien als Kitt von demokratiefeindlichen Bewegungen.
Bürger & Staat
73 (3): 155-161.
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Marcks, Holger,
Janina Pawelz. 2020.
From Myths of Victimhood to Fantasies of Violence: How Far-Right Narratives of Imperilment Work.
Terrorism and Political Violence
34 (7): 1415-1432.
DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2020.1788544.
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Pawelz, Janina. 2020.
Aux armes! Der digitale Kampf gegen Rechtsextremismus im Internet.
Policy Brief 4/2020. Hamburg: IFSH.
DOI: 10.25592/ifsh-policy-brief-0420.
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Pawelz, Janina
.
2023.
Youth, Violence, and Identities of Insecurity in Timor-Leste.
In: Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures,
edited by
Jayeel Cornelio
,
Volker Grabowsky
, 439-456.
Chiang Mai
: Silkworm Books
.
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Fielitz, Maik
,
Janina Pawelz
.
2020.
Die extreme Rechte und politische Bildungsarbeit in der digitalen Gesellschaft.
In: Aufruhr in der Echo-Kammer. Fragestellungen und Analysen zum Thema medienpädagogische Interventionen im Feld der Neuen Rechten. Expertise Nr. 1,
edited by
Fabian Kaufmann
,
Lena Sierts
, 35-44.
Hamburg
: CJD
.
