The center, which is currently being organized as a five-year project, to be chaired by Professor Tore Bjørgoi. Funding comes from SAMRISK program, and the name is “ Center for Research on extremism (C-REX): Right-Wing extremism, Hate Crime and Political Violence”.
Research Council Director Arvid Hallén said in a statement that the center will help strengthen research on and provide a better basis for preventing and dealing with right-wing extremism.
Ensuring basic values
It was in the revised national budget in 2015 that Parliament appropriated funds for a center for research on right-wing extremism and related fields. The rationale is that after the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011 is a greater need for knowledge of right-wing extremism and the dissemination of such knowledge.
– Knowledge and insight can help in the fight against extremism. Research and prevention are important to ensure basic values such as democracy, human rights and security, says Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen in the message.
The Minister added that to live without fear of being subjected to hatred and violence is a basic value in a safe community.
– Therefore strengthen government research in this area, says Røe Isaksen.
The new research led by the University of Oslo, in cooperation with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and the Center for Studies of Holocaust and livsynsminoriteter, Police Academy and Defence Research. In addition, there are several strong international environments involved.
center will build research expertise in the field, including through recruitment to the research field. It will enhance research quality and research capacity of rightwing extremism and related fields in Norway.
Serious challenges
– University adds substantial own resources, so they expect to be between 15 to 20 researchers in the Centre’s core group if the University is elected. Most of these will fully or partially have their physical workplace at the center, preamble Bjørgo to Khronos in advance of the decision.
Across the websites of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University emphasizes Bjørgo that Norway and Europe faces serious challenges right extremist violence, while we are in the midst of a situation that invokes fear and crisis.
– Refugee flow has led to hate crimes, violence and arson fires in reception centers, in Sweden but also in Norway. In addition we have terror, which for more than a week ago struck Paris again. It was about jihadist terrorism, but we reckon that terror will also lead to more right-wing violence, says Bjørgo.
He stressed that Norway already, has strong research on jihadism, while the last 10- 15 years have not had similar research on right-wing extremism.
– We will obviously have several comparable studies of jihadism and right extremism, says Bjørgo.
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