Research Interests:
Social movements & protest
Political violence & conflict
Civil disobedience, civil resistance & radical politics
Middle East / North Africa
Political Islam
Discourse analysis / protest event analysis / mixed methods Research safety & ethics
Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm heads the Research Group Radical Spaces at the INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. He is also a Member of the Executive Board and Associated Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Protest and Social Movements in Berlin (ipb). Until 2020, he supported the trade union work of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) as Regional Coordinator of the FES Global Trade Union Project in the Middle East and North Africa region. Until 2019, he co-headed the “SAFEResearch” project for the creation of the first systematic handbook for human and digital security in the social sciences. Jannis holds a Dr. Phil in Political Science from the Berlin Graduate Muslim Cultures and Societies. Other previous postings include the Mediterranean Institute Berlin, the Orient Institute Istanbul, the COSMOS Center on Social Movement Studies at SNS Florence, and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, SWP Berlin. Jannis' work centres on political violence and state repression in the Middle East and North Africa as well as on processes of mass mobilization and regime contestation from below. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the region and served as a consultant to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, the Federal Foreign Office as well as several human rights organisations and political foundations.