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Loneliness in adolescence affects future income, pioneering Norwegian study finds.

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. 

What kind of strategies does a population employ to persist in their territories when surrounded by militia groups, oil companies and drug dealers? Anthropologist Mónica Amador has undertaken field work in the Colombian swamps.

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.

Anthropology students at the Department of Social Anthropology learn coding: "Knowledge of what makes us human is a prerequisite for the development of new technology".

New special issue of the journal Politics, Religion & Ideology, co-edited by Katrine Fangen and Inger Skjelsbæk.

Parts of the brain decline faster from age 30, researchers at the University of Oslo find. These brain changes are accelerated in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

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).

New compendium with concise, but solid and research-based, answers by C-REX scholars to important questions in the study of the far right.

C-REX is calling for a PhD Research Fellow on Right-Wing Violence and Terrorism. Deadline: Monday, March 1, 2021

Rapid economic growth is driving up demand for real estate in India. New research reveals the techniques Indian authorities are using to transfer land from poor farmers to rich investors.

For four years, EUREX researchers have studied the ‘expertization’ of the political order. The recently finished project shows how more and more academics find their way to the public committees.

- Trump has created an image of himself as the strong man, who will rebuild American values and fight for the forgotten women and men. That he is true to this message is part of his strength, says Sigrun Marie Moss, a researcher who specialises in political psychology.

C-REX is calling for two Postdoctoral Fellows on the Extreme Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence

GLOBUS researchers have spent the last four years critically analysing the EU’s impact on global justice.

The project GLOBUS – Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice – has ended after four years of critical analysis of the EU’s global role. The final review of GLOBUS describes the project as “academically top-notch” and commends it for providing “a true value added for the research on the EU as a global player”.

Bringing together 20 partners across sectors and disciplines, the PhD network PLATO equips 15 researchers with innovative training at doctoral level. We asked our project partners about the benefits of collaborating with other sectors during a doctorate.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused anthropologists at the University of Oslo to rethink their traditional fieldwork. An initiative presented by NAV (the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) could enable Master’s students at the Department of Social Anthropology to conduct research on the users of welfare services.

The dissemination event The euro: no legitimacy without solidarity? took place on 25 September 2020 and presented some of the findings from PLATO and their implications to a broad online audience.

C-REX (University of Oslo) and PERIL (American University) are co-organizing a new webinar series called 'Researching the far right: methods and ethics'.

Book Series Edited by Nigel Copsey (University of Teesside) and Graham Macklin (Centre for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo).

We are pleased to announce the official release by C-REX of an updated version of the RTV dataset, documenting right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe 1990-2019.

Despite increased information and knowledge, racism is still alive and kicking around the world. New research suggests racism could be a genetic trait.

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.