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.
What makes some Muslim men living in Norway become radicalized and others not? There is no simple answer, according to Uzair Ahmed's Ph.D. dissertation, for which he is awarded the King's Gold Medal. Keywords like exclusion, poor economy, racism, crime, and religion are, however, part of the explanation.
Welcome to this Autumns Master Seminar at C-RX
This seminar is for students who writes or have plans to write the MA-thesis on extremism.
Studying Online Violent Extremism: Methods, Personal Safety, and Ethics.
This workshop will be held on 26-27 June 2023. Application deadline: 1 May 2023.
Pan-Nordic and transnational dimensions of right-wing extremism
This #openaccess tool provides detailed information, incl. geolocation, on right-wing violent attacks in Western Europe since 1990.
The conference on Global and transnational perspectives on Islamophobia will be held on June 21 and 22, 2023
Every semester, the C-REX Visiting Fellow Program provides one grant to younger researchers in the field of right-wing extremism and far-right politics.
C-REX is seeking a Swedish-speaking Research Assistant for the SODIS project (Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far-Right Recruitment and Enrolment during the COVID-19 Pandemic) at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Zoom-seminar at C-REX for masters students
Tore Bjørgo and Kurt Braddock are soliciting proposal abstracts for a planned Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism to be published in December 2022.
C-REX and CEP have organized an online public event on 30 August 2021 to commemorate the Oslo/Utøya and 9/11 attacks, analyze their long-term impact, and assess the current terrorist landscape emanating from the extreme right-wing terrorist milieu as well as the Islamist terrorist scene. The recordings of the webinar are now available online.
Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) is looking to hire two research assistants (20%) to update the Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Western Europe (RTV) dataset for 2021. Application deadline: 5 September 2021.
C-REX Postdoctoral fellow Graham Macklin has written the cover story of the newest edition of the CTC Sentinel, on the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
C-REX offers an MA grant for students writing a thesis on right-wing extremism, linked to one of three research projects. Application deadline: 20 August 2021
C-REX affiliate scholar Eviane Leidig and Postdoctoral Fellow Pietro Castelli Gattinara have contributed to the video series The Far Right Around the World, by the Research into Global Power, Inequality and Conflict (RGPIC) group at Macquarie University, Australia.
C-REX scholar Katrine Fangen is Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. In this article on the Ideology Theory Practice blog, she summarizes key findings of her previous work on anti-Islamic actors, ranging from social media groups and social movement organisations to political parties and individual politicians.
New special issue of the journal Politics, Religion & Ideology, co-edited by Katrine Fangen and Inger Skjelsbæk.
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.
New special issue of the online journal Perspectives on Terrorism, co-edited by Joel Busher (Coventry University) and Tore Bjørgo (C-REX).
C-REX is calling for a PhD Research Fellow on Right-Wing Violence and Terrorism. Deadline: Monday, March 1, 2021
C-REX is calling for two Postdoctoral Fellows on the Extreme Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence
Book Series Edited by Nigel Copsey (University of Teesside) and Graham Macklin (Centre for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo).
