Pavol Kosnáč is the Scientific Director of the 📝DEKK Institute, a social-cohesion research institute based in Bratislava, Slovakia. As a 🏷️#researcher, he studies religion, extremism, and social cohesion across Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the conditions that hold societies together and the pressures that pull them apart. His work sits at the intersection of religious studies, conflict, and the empirical measurement of social stability in a region that rarely receives sustained analytical attention.
At DEKK, Kosnáč directs research into social cohesion and the structural factors that underpin or erode societal stability. He runs the World Values Survey for Slovakia and the Czech Republic, anchoring his analysis in large-scale, longitudinal data on values, attitudes, and beliefs. This data-driven approach to social dynamics overlaps directly with the modeling and simulation work Justin pursues, making Kosnáč both a regional specialist and a methodological counterpart in the study of how societies behave under stress.
Pavol does the unglamorous version of the work I care about — measuring what actually keeps a society from coming apart, in the parts of Europe most people never look at. When I want a read on social stability in Central Europe, he's who I ask.