Curriculum Vitae - Janusz Biene, M.A.

Janusz Biene worked as a research assistant at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main from November 2012 to April 2015 and from May 2016 to September 2016 in the field of "International Organizations". Since January 2013, he has worked in the DFG-funded research project "Transnational Escalation Mechanisms of Violent Dissidence". Since May 2015, he has been coordinating the BMBF-funded research project "Salafismus in Deutschland" (jointly with Julian Junk) at The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). In October 2016 he became a project coordinator of the Prevention Project "PRO Prävention" against (religiously based) extremism in the district of Offenbach.

Janusz Biene studied Peace and Conflict Research, Political Science, and Language and Communication Science at RWTH Aachen, the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2008 to 2011 he was promoted as a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk. In addition to his academic education, Janusz has worked as a print and online journalist (among others, dpa, Focus magazine, taz, Friday) and as a consultant for GIZ and MIC Consulting.

Research Interests

  • Islamism, salafism, jihadism
  • Terrorism and civil war studies
  • Conflict management and resolution, extremism prevention
  • Recognition theory
  • Peace and Security in development cooperation

In the DFG-funded research project "Resistance - Guerilla - Terrorism: Transnational Escalation Mechanisms of Violent Dissidence", Janusz Biene worked on the question of the de-escalation or escalation of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa.