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Society for Terrorism Research, C-REX, University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 13th annual International conference June 20-21, 2019: The data revolution in terrorism research: implications for theory and practice
In February 2015, the Counterterrorism and Security Act was passed by the UK Parliament. The Act imposed a legal duty on several public bodies, including higher education institutions (HEIs), to “have due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”, a requirement referred to as the Prevent Duty.
In the latest C-REX Working Paper, Next steps for Scholarship on Gender and the Far-Right, Professor Kathleen Blee, University of Pittsburgh, discusses the state of scholarship on gender and the far right.
If research can only be as good as the data on which it is based, then the study of terrorism has been in serious trouble for decades, writes Bart Schuurman.
Is framing Islam as a ‘bad religion’ inevitable?
Joel Busher and Graham Macklin identifies a number of issues that needs to be addressed for the concepts of ‘reciprocal radicalisation’ and ‘cumulative extremism’ to add value.
Høyreekstremisme er ikke lenger et ungdomsfenomen. Det gjør forebygging vanskeligere.
Høyreekstremismen er ikke det den var på 90-tallet. Dette er de viktigste endringene.
Konspirasjonsteorier om minoriteter, medier og Arbeiderpartiet spres på sosiale medier.
Den anti-islamske bevegelsen utfordrer vår forståelse av ytre høyre
Hva driver støtten til den populistiske nasjonalismen i Europa, og hva tilbyr ytre høyre sine velgere?
Deler av den russiske befolkningen som levde under tysk okkupasjon håpet at tyskerne ville frigjøre dem fra Stalin. Det viser en ny bok av Johannes Due Enstad.
Hvite terrorister blir ansett som psykisk syke. Arabiske terrorister blir ansett som ideologisk motivert.
- Parallelt med venstresidebevegelsers fremvekst og økte oppslutning har det pågått en stille motrevolusjon på ytre høyre.
Mona Abdel-Fadil har forsket på gruppen «Ja til å bære korset når og hvor jeg vil».
Trump’s former adviser is no evil genius. But his reputation as a dangerous figure risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, writes Cas Mudde
The five-year trial of Beate Zschäpe, the last surviving member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terrorist group, has finally ended with Zschäpe, the principal defendant, receiving a life sentence for her part in ten racially motivated killings.
Why do people leave far-right extremism? Do they simply tire of the hateful messages? Is it too difficult to stay attached to a politics that one’s friends and family reject?
On May 14/15 2018, C-REX, the Centre for Research on Extremism in the Faculty of Social Sciences held a cross-disciplinary conference on ‘Gender and Extremism’ at the University of Oslo.
Rekrutteringen til høyreekstreme bevegelser handler om følelser, ikke ideologi, mener sosiolog Michael Kimmel.
Vi må lytte til hva de høyreekstreme sier, mener professor Kathleen Blee, som har forsket på kjønn i høyreekstreme miljøer.
Men vi kan ikke snakke om en høyreradikal trend i Europa, mener statsviter Cas Mudde.
The Announcement for a position as Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral Fellow) on the Extreme Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence is available.
When the limits of democracy and the rule of law for threats and abuse are overstepped, the authorities must react – decisively.
The excellent lectures from Kathleen Blee and Michael Kimmel are now available online.