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A short text celebrating the 10 first years from the director, Anders Ravik Jupskås.

C-REX Director Anders Jupskås and Associate Professor Jacob Ravndal presented new findings at a United Nations briefing session in Vienna.

Studying Online Extremism: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety (2^nd edition).

It's time for the annual summary. Spoiler alert: C-REX has had another impressive year.

On behalf of Aarhus University, we are pleased to share that the call for abstracts is now open for the 7th Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism, taking place in Denmark on September 25-26, 2025.

Challenges to the Academic Freedom of Political Scientists.

"Growing up with a lot of marginalization in terms of class background, ethnicity, skin colour, religion, and criminality can make a criminal path a resource for finding one's place. This can be the case in encounters with religion and with political crises," says extremism researcher Uzair Ahmed.

Along the path of love, the group of extremism researchers is instructed to keep two thoughts in mind simultaneously. The beautiful tradition of inviting a crush for a stroll on top of the cliffs. The terrible July-night which makes the island of interest to extremism researchers.

Where is far-right ideology being exported today? What is the gender dimension in this? How can we prevent violence and extremism? Nearly 280 extremism researchers from various countries gathered in Oslo this week to address these and related questions.

Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) is looking to hire three research assistants (30%) to update the Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Western Europe (RTV) dataset for 2023.

Studying Online Violent Extremism: Methods, Personal Safety, and Ethics. 

This workshop will be held on 26-27 June 2023. Application deadline: 1 May 2023.

This #openaccess tool provides detailed information, incl. geolocation, on right-wing violent attacks in Western Europe since 1990.

On January 6, 2021, a mob of far-right protesters broke through the weak police cordon and illegally entered the US Capitol. Here's an overview of analyses of the attack by C-REX scholars and members of our advisory board. 

Cathrine Thorleifsson, who is conducting research on the far right at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) believes that old hatreds could resurface during the coronavirus pandemic.

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?

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.

“Right-wing extremism has been smouldering below the surface since the Second World War. It was ignited by the influx of refugees in the 1980s and 1990s, and now the same thing is happening again,” says Tore Bjørgo, Director of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX).