| Tore Bjørgo | |
| Birth Place: | Fagernes, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Professor and Director of the Center for Extremism Research | |
| Workplaces: | University of Oslo |
| Awards: | Fulbright Scholar (2014) |
| Website: | https://www.phs.no/en/Researchers/tore-bjorgo/; https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/personer/vit/torebjo/ |
| Alma Mater: | University of Leiden, University of Oslo |
| Sub Discipline: | Terrorism, political science, criminology, sociology, police science |
Tore Bjørgo (born May 25, 1958) is a Norwegian social anthropologist and expert on the extreme right, and is professor at the University of Oslo[1] and Director of the university's Center for Extremism Research: Right-Wing Extremism, Hate Crime and Political Violence (C‑REX).[1] [2] He is also professor at the Norwegian Police University College.[1] He is a specialist in political extremism and terrorism, racist and right-wing violence, delinquent youth gangs, and international crime.[3]
A social anthropologist by training, he 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 from 1991 to 1997.[2] [4] [3] His doctoral dissertation, Racist and Right-Wing Violence in Scandinavia: Patterns, Perpetrators, and Responses, was published by Tano Aschehoug.[5] A major thesis in his dissertation is that individuals become radicalized and racized after entering a racist environment (i.e., people do not enter a racist environment because they were racists in the first place).[6]
From 1983 to 2004, Dr. Bjørgo worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI); initially a Scientific Assistant, he was later promoted to Senior Researcher (1998–2004) and Research Professor (2004–2015).[7] [1] Since 2002, he has been the Coordinator of NUPI's Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime(Official Site).[2] Dr. Bjørgo joined the Norwegian Police University College in 2004, where he served as a professor of Police Science (May 2004 to February 2016) as well as Research Director (February 2005 to June 2007).[1] [2] He was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, in the fall of 2014.[2] [8]
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 (C-REX Official Site).[1] [2]
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 Cristin. The following is a selection of monographs and edited volumes.