News
Tuesday, 7 Sep 2021
Female Leaders of Right-Wing Movements a Strategic Choice?
Katrine Fangen, Professor at the University of Oslo and member of the PRIO project 'Reaching Out to Close the Border: The Transnationalization of Anti-Immigration Movements in Europe (MAM)' was recently interviewed in framtida.no on the role of female leaders in European right-wing movements (in Norwegian), arguing that it can be a strategic choice to put women in front of the movement both to soften the message and to appeal more to female voters.
News
Wednesday, 21 Jul 2021
The meaning of 'our values' in the aftermath of terrorist attacks
In a new article published in Migration Studies, Rojan Tordhol Ezzati examines expressions of unity through value-talk after terrorism in Norway (2011) and France (2015). The analysis examines television news in the two countries and shows that the way national leaders talk about 'our values' can either underline unity or further underline conflict.
News
Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021
PRIO Participation in Conference Commemorating 22 July 2011
On the occasion of the 10-year commemoration of the Oslo and Utøya attacks in 2011, the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo is organizing a conference on the topic, especially highlighting research and knowledge related to the tragic events.
News
Tuesday, 7 Sep 2021
Female Leaders of Right-Wing Movements a Strategic Choice?
Katrine Fangen, Professor at the University of Oslo and member of the PRIO project 'Reaching Out to Close the Border: The Transnationalization of Anti-Immigration Movements in Europe (MAM)' was recently interviewed in framtida.no on the role of female leaders in European right-wing movements (in Norwegian), arguing that it can be a strategic choice to put women in front of the movement both to soften the message and to appeal more to female voters.
News
Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021
PRIO Participation in Conference Commemorating 22 July 2011
On the occasion of the 10-year commemoration of the Oslo and Utøya attacks in 2011, the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo is organizing a conference on the topic, especially highlighting research and knowledge related to the tragic events.
News
Wednesday, 21 Jul 2021
The meaning of 'our values' in the aftermath of terrorist attacks
In a new article published in Migration Studies, Rojan Tordhol Ezzati examines expressions of unity through value-talk after terrorism in Norway (2011) and France (2015). The analysis examines television news in the two countries and shows that the way national leaders talk about 'our values' can either underline unity or further underline conflict.
Podcast Episode
Thursday, 24 Jun 2021
48- How Can We Explain Support for Terrorism?
What makes people support terrorism or violent extremism? Is there any way to know what factors contribute? As terrorism has increasingly become a global concern, research has focused on who becomes a terrorist, and who supports terrorism, with many valuable conclusions coming out of that research. But until now no one has looked at whether these findings hold on a global scale.
In a new report for the United Nations Development Programme, Tora Sagård investigated just that, and in this episode she discusses her thoughts on the results.
Read the report here: https://www1.undp.org/content/oslo-governance-centre/en/home/library/when-is-conventional-wisdom-wise--testing-the-assumptions-behind.html
