Tore Bjørgo


Tore Bjørgo is a Professor and researcher at the University of Oslo. He is the Director of the university's Center for Extremism Research: Right-Wing Extremism, Hate Crime and Political Violence. Dr. Bjørgo is also an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Police University College. He is a specialist in political extremism and terrorism, racist and right-wing violence, delinquent youth gangs, and international crime.

Background

A social anthropologist by training, Dr. Bjørgo received his Cand.polit. graduate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo in 1987. In 1997 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands - where he was a research associate. His doctoral dissertation, Racist and Right-Wing Violence in Scandinavia: Patterns, Perpetrators, and Responses, was published by Tano Aschehoug. A major thesis in his dissertation is that individuals become radicalized and racized after entering a racist environment.
From 1983 to 2004, Dr. Bjørgo worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs ; initially a Scientific Assistant, he was later promoted to Senior Researcher and Adjunct Research Professor. Since 2002, he has been the Coordinator of NUPI's Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime
. Dr. Bjørgo joined the Norwegian Police University College in 2004, where he served as a Professor of Police Science as well as Research Director. He was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, in the fall of 2014.
Dr. Bjørgo is currently a Professor at the University of Oslo, where he is the Director of the Center for Extremism Research: Right-Wing Extremism, Hate Crime and Political Violence.

Publications

Dr. Bjørgo has authored or edited nine books as well as hundreds journal articles and reports; a list of all works can be found in . The following is a selection of monographs and edited volumes.

Selected bibliography