Tore Bjørgo

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.^[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).^[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.^{[citation needed]} The following is a selection of monographs and edited volumes.

• 1993: Bjørgo, T., and Heradstveit, D. Politisk terrorisme [Political Terrorism]. Oslo, Norway: Norges forskningsråd. ISBN 8251831024
• 1995: Bjørgo, T. (ed.) Terror from the Extreme Right. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 9780714646633
• 1997: Bjørgo, T. Racist and Right-Wing Violence in Scandinavia: Patterns, Perpetrators, and Responses. (Doctoral Dissertation). Oslo, Norway: Tano Aschehoug. ISBN 8251836654
• 1998: Kaplan, J., and Bjørgo, T. (ed.) Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1555533310
• 1999: Bjørgo, T., and Carlsson, Y. Vold, rasisme og ungdomsgjenger: Forebygging og bekjempelse [Violence, Racism and Youth: Prevention and Combat]. Oslo, Norway: Tano Aschehoug. ISBN 9788251837323
• 2005: Bjørgo, T. (ed.) Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415351499
• 2009: Bjørgo, T., and Horgan, J. (eds.) Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and Collective Disengagement. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 9780415776677
• 2013: Bjørgo, T. Strategies for Preventing Terrorism. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137355072