Dr. Atie Kashef
Vice President · Board
High-Tech Community Designer and Social Capacity Builder.
About Res Publica
A civic institution for research, dialogue, participation and accountable institutional practice.
Res Publica is a German nonprofit, grant-funded civic organisation. Its work connects Research, Dialogue and Participation with the question of how lived experience can inform accountable public action.
The kind of institution we are building
Our aim is not only to offer individual formats. Res Publica develops institutional capacity: reliable methods of listening, traceable evidence, bounded responsibilities, human approval and a memory of decisions, reasons and change.
Trust does not arise from a brand promise. It is produced through answerability, bounded authority, transparent evidence, institutional memory and the capacity for repair.
Human authority
Technical systems may support the work. They cannot replace consequential human decisions, approval or publication authority. Responsibilities remain separated and limited to their purpose.
What this website is
This website is a multilingual public space for orientation, information and participation. It explains the mission and method; separates Programs, Products, Services and Projects; makes confirmed public work discoverable; and provides protected entry points into membership and the Member Profile.
What this website is not
It is neither the whole institutional system nor a public inventory of internal infrastructure. It does not expose sensitive records, internal assignments or unreviewed working states. Documented programmes are not presented as launched, and internal technology is not marketed as a public product.
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Team and responsibility
Three publicly confirmed people carry operational and institutional responsibility for Res Publica.
Donya Nasiri Zarghani
Principal Community Representative · Board
Real-Time Community Operator and Mathematician.
Jolan Farhadi Babadi
Board · Managing Director
Governance and Systems Designer · M.A. in Practical Philosophy and Organizational Design.
Board responsibilities under the Statutes
- The Board represents the association in and out of court; two Board members jointly represent it.
- The Board decides membership applications and decisions on exclusion or removal under the Statutes.
- It convenes the General Assembly and may appoint an Executive Management function to support operations.