Nettsider med emneord «Terrorism»
The seminar will discuss three recently published books which deal with challenging questions of identity and belonging, as well as terrorism.
In this latest article in Journal of European Integration, Mai'a Cross argues that European external borders are actually becoming stronger, not weaker, despite the renewed emphasis on national borders within Europe.
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.
“Foreign terrorist fighters” (FTFs) are commonly understood as being synonymous with jihadists. But what if we were to be faced with a foreign terrorist fighter, who is not a jihadi and is hardly ideologically motivated at all? C-REX Postdoctoral Fellow Kacper Rekawek discusses the recent conviction of three Czech foreign fighters involved in the conflict in Ukraine, who fall into that category. Their cases differ substantially from their jihadi counterparts and offer a fascinating insight into how different Western states approach the issue of their citizens or inhabitants deploying to foreign wars.
Right-wing terrorists do not pose the greatest far-right threat to liberal democracies, according to C-REX scholar Jacob Aasland Ravndal.
There is a significant potential for conflict among Norwegians regarding how they understand the terrorist attack July 22 a decade after, according to Anders Ravik Jupskås and Øyvind Bugge Solheim.
Right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe in 2020 was not significantly influenced by COVID-19 nor by the activism of the Black Lives Matter movement. Instead, the RTV report recently published by C-REX shows that 2020 represents a continuation of previous trends.
Two people were killed in a shooting at a gay bar in Bratislava on 12 October 2022. While the attack was condemned by Slovak society, a right-wing political establishment struggled to offer support to the LGBTQ+ community.
Improved systematic data on severe far-right violence in Western Europe debunks five common myths in the field.
