Team
Violence Prevention Unit
Dr. Albrecht Lüter
Dr Albrecht Lüter, a political scientist and sociologist, has been director of the Berlin Youth Violence Prevention Unit, set up by Camino on behalf of the Berlin State Commission Against Violence, since 2015. Before joining Camino, he was active in the scientific monitoring and evaluation of federal and state programmes on the prevention of right-wing extremism and the promotion of democracy at the Institute for Social Work and Social Education in Frankfurt am Main (ISS-FfM) since 2009. His professional career has also included positions at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), the International University Bremen, the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, and the research institute “forsa”.
Dana Breidscheid
Dana Breidscheid is a sociology student (MA) at the University of Potsdam and a research assistant at the Violence Prevention Unit.
Magdalena Hirsch
Magdalena Hirsch studied social psychology (M.Sc., Utrecht University). Since 2022, she is research fellow at Camino and monitors projects related to prevention of violence and democratization. Before that, she was a research fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) investigating the sources of right-wing populist attitudes.
Moritz Konradi
Moritz Konradi is a political scientist (diploma, Free University of Berlin), a criminologist and police scientist (MA, Ruhr University in Bochum) and research specialist at the Violence Prevention Unit. Before joining Camino in 2020, he was programme manager at the European Forum for Urban Security in Paris. Up to 2016, he worked as a project co-ordinator for crime prevention at the anti-violence project MANEO in Berlin and was a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and at the Berlin Police Academy.
His current focus is on the evaluation and monitoring of projects in the areas of radicalisation prevention, community violence and crime prevention, and victim support.
Philippe Greif
Dr. Sarah Riese
Sarah Riese is a doctor of political science and co-director of the Violence Prevention Unit.
Before joining Camino’s Youth Violence Prevention Unit in 2019, she ran the funding department of the Schüler Helfen Leben foundation and monitored education projects in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. Before this, she was involved in research projects on post-war processes at the Free University of Berlin, the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the University of Ottawa.
Her current focus is on the evaluation of projects in the areas of right-wing extremism and violence prevention.
Tanja Manthey-Gutenberger
Willi Imhof
Willi Imhof is a sociologist and research specialist at the Violence Prevention Unit. Before joining Camino in 2017, he supported the Youth Violence Prevention Unit, initially as a freelancer.
The focus of his work takes in the socio-spatial Berlin Violence Prevention Monitoring as well as the evaluation of social projects, particularly in the area of violence prevention in schools and the promotion of democracy. His preferred methodological focus is on qualitative research approaches and online surveys.
