HATE CRIMES

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Many societies have witnessed a dramatic rise of hate crimes against minorities. The NSU murders, the Hanau shootings or the attack against the Jewish community in Halle are sadly just the tip of the iceberg of a more general trend towards radicalization in Western societies. In January 2021, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights recorded a new all-time record high in hate crimes across 39 democracies. COUNTERHATE aims to address this alarming trend by pursuing three key goals: (1) compiling a comprehensive disaggregated and geo-coded dataset on hate crimes in Germany, (2) explaining the rise of hate crimes and (3) developing counter strategies to provide policy-makers with evidence-based policy recommendations how to mitigate hate crimes.