Civil Society Monitoring of Far-Right Activities (CiSMon)

Since the upsurge of right-wing and racist violence in the 1990s, civil society monitoring of far-right activities has become increasingly impor­tant and en­compasses a broad spectrum of actors. The practice of monitoring by anti-fascist grass­roots initiatives, municipal coun­selling centres and victim coun­selling centres as well as nationally operating foun­dations differs from the moni­toring of the extreme right by state agencies. The project exa­mines which practices and problem des­criptions characterize civil society monitoring. In addition, it will be asked what impact civil society monitoring has on the activities of the far right and the ambi­guously structured field in which civil society and extreme right actors move in equal measure.