M.Phil Jacob Aasland Ravndal at Center for Research on Extremism will publicy defend his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD: Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis
The radical right party profited from the fact immigration was the number one election issue. But can its breakthrough last?
Den amerikanske sosiologen Pete Simi har forsket på hva som stanser ekstremister fra å begå terror.
Et ekspertutvalg har kartlagt behovet for forskning på ekstremisme og terrorisme på vegne av Norges forskningsråd.
- Jøder er fortsatt en utsatt minoritet i Europa, og antisemittisk vold er underbelyst i forskningen. Det viser en rapport forfattet av C-REX-forsker Johannes Due Enstad.
Siden oppstarten i februar i fjor har C-REX ansatt fire doktorgradsstipendiater
Islamofobi og muslim-fiendtlige holdninger er mest utbredt i høyreekstreme miljøer på sosiale medier, men etter «flyktningkrisa» ble skepsisen mot asylsøkere og innvandrere generelt styrket.
Christopher Sebastian Parker is a professor of political science at the University of Washington and will be a guest researcher at C-REX in the period August 15 - September 15
C-REX Director Tore Bjørgo Chairs the section Right-Wing Extremism Beyond Party Politics at the ECPR General Conference in Oslo 6-9 September 2017.
How often do incidents of antisemitic violence occur in contemporary Europe, and what trends are showing?
How exposed are Jewish populations in different countries? And who is behind these crimes?
Leder for C-REX, professor Tore Bjørgo, er nylig utnevnt til medredaktør (associate editor) for tidsskriftet Perspectives on Terrorism.
A defining characteristic of this populist form of autocracy is the rejection of diversity and the attack on democratic institutions. Orbán is succeeding in both, Writes Cathrine Thorleifsson.
28 år etter kommunismens fall og etter 13 år som EU-medlem, beveger Ungarns unge demokrati seg mot et autokrati, skriver Cathrine Thorleifsson
The day after President Trump’s inauguration in Washington, jubilant leaders of Western Europe’s radical right parties gathered in Koblenz, Germany. The meeting was an attempt to create a “European moment” ahead of a slate of Western European elections this year.
Vi bør ikke la en terminologi om hatytringer omforme rasismens vesen til bare å bli individuell, emosjonell og impulsdreven, skriver Cora Alexa Døving ved Senter for studier av holocaust og livssynsminoriteter.
Professor Tore Bjørgo, C-REX UiO, and professor Michael Minkenberg chairs a section on Right-Wing Extremism Beyond Party Politics, in the forthcoming ECPR Conference in Oslo, 6-9 September 2017.
- Vi er så opptatt av de mest synlige høyreekstremistene, at vi ikke merker at høyrepopulistisk tankegods har glidd inn i den offentlige samtalen og blitt stuerent, sier Cas Mudde, som har forsket på høyreekstremisme i 25 år.
In summer 2016, we experienced an epic populist moment in one of the world’s oldest democracies: Brexit. As will be well known to readers of this newsletter, this British referendum on whether or not to leave the EU resulted in a small, but clear, majority in favor of leaving.
Germany is one of the few countries in the world that has a very effective and transparent registration of politically motivated crimes. Sadly, this often leads to the impression that such crimes are more common in Germany than in other countries, just because they are more conscientious in collecting and publishing these data.
Most of the main individuals and organizations that are described as part of the “alt-right” by the media do not self-identify as such. While they use all kind of other neologisms, like “racial realists” and “white nationalists,” they are, and always have been, white supremacists!
While the “AfD versus Merkel” provides a comfortable media frame, reducing a complex multiparty system to a two-horse race, it is simplistic and wrong.
C-REX introduserer et RTV-datasett som dekker omfanget av høyreekstrem terror og vold i Vest-Europa mellom 1990 og 2015. Datasettet er utviklet av Jacob Aasland Ravndal som her forklarer hvordan datasettet er bygget opp.
C-REX presents a RTV Dataset (available to researchers upon request) covering the volume of right-wing terrorism and violence in post-1990 Western Europe. The Dataset is developed by Jacob Aasland Ravndal.
I podcastserien "Politikk og Røvere" snakker og diskuterer Lars Erik Berntzen og Jonas Bergan Dræge med leder for Senter for ekstremismeforskning, Tore Bjørgo.
Framing is an integral part of breaking a news story. Some of the frames of the Cologne and Stockholm events that stuck, are only loosely based on a ‘true story’. Others are pure fabrications.