Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung gGmbH

Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung gGmbH (roughly, 'Centre for Applied Deradicalisation Research', a non-profit limited liability company) is a German organisation that works on deradicalisation, disengagement and prevention of violent extremism. It presents itself publicly under the shorter brand name modus|zad, which is also reflected in its website address, modus-zad.de. The legal form gGmbH indicates a charitable limited liability company under German law, a structure commonly used by non-profit research, welfare and counselling organisations that need a flexible corporate vehicle while pursuing a public-benefit mission. The centre's field of activity sits at the intersection of research, counselling and practical intervention. Applied deradicalisation work typically involves case-based counselling for individuals who wish to leave extremist milieus, support for families and social environments, training and advice for institutions, and the transfer of research findings into practice. Organisations in this field in Germany often cooperate with state prevention programmes, security authorities, youth welfare services and civil-society networks, although the exact partners and funding arrangements of this particular centre are not documented in the available evidence. The brand modus|zad is aimed at a professional and institutional audience rather than at consumers: practitioners in prevention work, researchers, public authorities and civil-society organisations. Its output is primarily services and knowledge products — counselling, analysis, qualification and project work — rather than tangible goods. Because the organisation is a gGmbH, any surpluses are bound to the non-profit purpose rather than distributed to shareholders. As a relatively specialised and low-profile entity, the centre does not have a widely documented corporate history in mainstream sources. The available evidence consists of a Wikidata item (Q132898681) and the organisation's own web presence. Details such as founding year, founders, headquarters city, staff size, funding bodies and specific programme names are therefore not asserted here; they would need to be verified from the organisation's own publications or from public registers before being added to this dossier.

The available evidence for Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung gGmbH is limited to a Wikidata identifier (Q132898681) and the organisation's own website at modus-zad.de. No founding date, founder names, headquarters location, ownership structure or detailed institutional history is documented in the supplied material, and no Wikipedia article is attached to the subject. What can be stated with confidence is the organisational form and field of activity implied by the name and legal suffix. 'Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung' translates as 'Centre for Applied Deradicalisation Research'. The suffix 'gGmbH' stands for 'gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung', a German non-profit limited liability company. This legal form is used by organisations that pursue charitable, research or welfare purposes and that wish to combine limited liability with a binding non-profit commitment: profits may not be distributed to owners but must be retained for the statutory purpose. The public-facing brand is modus|zad, as shown by the website domain modus-zad.de. In the German prevention landscape, applied deradicalisation centres typically emerged and expanded from the 2000s onwards, as federal and state programmes (for example the federal 'Demokratie leben!' framework and various state-level prevention schemes) began funding civil-society counselling and exit-work structures. Such centres usually combine three strands: individual case counselling for people leaving extremist scenes, family and environment counselling, and research, evaluation and qualification activities. They often work with probation services, youth welfare offices, schools, police and security authorities, and they frequently participate in networks such as the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft religiös begründeter Extremismus (BAG RelEx) or comparable coordination bodies. Because the supplied evidence does not confirm which of these structures, funders or networks apply specifically to this centre, this dossier deliberately omits such details. A fuller history would require consulting the organisation's own annual reports, project descriptions and public register entries. Until then, the entry should be treated as a verified identity record — a German non-profit deradicalisation research centre trading as modus|zad — rather than a complete corporate history.

Non-profit, practice-oriented research and counselling centre in the field of deradicalisation and extremism prevention, operating under the modus|zad brand.

• Deradicalisation and disengagement counselling

  Case-based support for individuals seeking to leave extremist milieus, typically combined with family and environment counselling.

• Prevention and research projects

  Applied research, evaluation and project work on radicalisation and violent extremism prevention.

• Training and qualification

  Qualification formats for practitioners in prevention, counselling, education and public administration.

1. 1Wikidata item Q132898681wikidata.org
2. 2modus|zad official websitemodus-zad.de