Dr. Tore Bjørgo
Director, Center for Research on Extremism: The Far Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence (C-REX)
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Dr. Tore Bjørgo is director of C-REX, a professor at the University of Oslo, and an adjunct professor at the Norwegian Police University College. C-REX is the world’s largest research center focusing specifically on the extreme right. C-REX has an in-house staff of around 15 scholars plus another 20+ affiliated researchers. Bjørgo’s main fields of research have been political extremism and terrorism, racist and right-wing violence, disengagement from violent groups, crime prevention, and policing. He has (co)authored or (co)edited fifteen books, including Terror from the Extreme Right (1995), Racist and Right-Wing Violence in Scandinavia: Patterns, Perpetrators, and Responses (1997), Root Causes of Terrorism (2005), Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and Collective Disengagement (2009), Strategies for Preventing Terrorism (2013), Preventing Crime: A Holistic Approach (2016), The Dynamics of a Terrorist Targeting Process: Breivik and the 22 July Attacks in Norway (2016), Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities (2019), and The Making of a Police Officer: Comparative Perspectives on Police Education and Recruitment (2020).
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
