About

The website preventhate.org is an initiative of Policyinstitute.net. It has been our mission, since 2021, to deliver reliable and purposeful analyses with a view on averting and countering online hate and harmful speech.

On the website preventhate.org, we cover topics in the form of academic and journalistic resources. In specific, the site is dedicated to countering hate, in the digital realm and in the analog world.

To date, the overarching think tank, Policyinstitute.net, maintains four project websites. Besides preventhate.org, these are counter-terrorism.org, strategism.org, and sahara-sahel.org. The ambits of these three sites are self-explanatory.

Policyinstitute.net’s founder, Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, is a journalist, social science researcher and author, and not-for-profit NGO Manager. He used to serve as Senior Expert on Mauritania and, for years, has engaged in the promulgation of soft security, thereby informing a large network of scholars and practitioners on the topic of soft security.