The Policyinstitute.net website is dedicated to preventing harms, informing truth and resilience. On this site, you will find all the basics about our small think tank. Just use the menu or press the appropriate buttons so you can reach our project pages, write us an email, or learn about our key services...
In this section, you will find information about our diverse portfolio: activities, projects, and freely accessible resources in the field of soft security. Our set covers a broad range of interconnected aspects. Through these, we seek to make relevant knowledge, research, and practical information accessible.
Policyinstitute.net produces and disseminates independently researched journalistic and analytical content, including current affairs analyses, summaries of articles, policy briefs, and official documents. Its editorial approach involves monitoring reliable sources, researching, selecting and evaluating information.
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Policyinstitute.net focuses on non-kinetic approaches to security, with particular emphasis on preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). Its thematic portfolio also covers online hate speech, disinformation and misinformation, digital communication, and the social dimensions of security.
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Policyinstitute.net operates as the central gateway to a wider digital ecosystem comprising four specialized project websites, each addressing distinct but complementary subject areas. LinkedIn is our destination for daily content dissemination, while strategism.org serves as a central information hub for key updates.
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Operating under a hybrid framework in accordance with German law, Policyinstitute.net was established as an independent entrepreneurial business entity rather than a registered association. Founded by Thorsten Koch, it functions substantively as a non-governmental organization (NGO) guided by a public-interest mission.
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The think tank operates through a collaborative, volunteer-based model that mirrors the participatory ethos of traditional NGOs. The initiative's founder, journalist Thorsten Koch, has been supervising a number of dedicated volunteers who contribute valuable analyses as well as content creation tasks.
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The platform utilizes a powerful digital outreach strategy, featuring tens of thousands of posts distributed on LinkedIn by founder Thorsten Koch. Social media networking and five project pages have achieved cumulative viewership reaching 167 million views by December 2025, however driven in part by search crawlers...
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In this section of our website, just as via the main menu, you will find important updates on our work. They mainly regard our five project pages, but also the personal page of our founder as well as specific partner domains, the latter being part of the open media venture de-news.net.
News about Germany in both English and French can be discovered on our partner site: GermanPolicy.com.
You can access a selection of the latest on countering hate speech through the following website: preventhate.org.
Find short biographical information about Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip on his professional website: thorstenkoch.com.
Our lists of free resources on either preventhate.org, counter-terrorism.org, or strategism.org.
Views reaching 168 millions including all Policyinstitute.net and de-news.net websites from 2017 to 2025.
25k+ posts against extremism and hate speech on the LinkedIn platform within nine years.
Thorsten Koch has a track record in creating top content since 1995, writing about IT, finance, and politics.
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