Description
Recent years have seen an increase in right-wing extremism and violence in many different countries. From Anders Breivik in Norway to Brenton Tarrant in New Zealand, right-wing extremists have perpetrated horrible acts of violence, and more and more resources are dedicated to understand, manage and counter this security threat. To that end this paper utilises the author’s newly developed model of counterterrorism to closely analyse the key assumptions, basic principles, strategies and tactics, priorities, and evaluation measures that make up Norway’s approach to countering violent extremism. Norway is an interesting case due to its experience with a right-wing extremist attack in 2011, and since then the government has responded with a wide range of new laws and measures to prevent and counter terrorism more broadly. While other studies have looked Norway’s approach to counterterrorism, no study has to date examined the country’s approach to CVE. As such, this paper will contribute to the on-going debate on right-wing extremist violence by providing an empirical analysis of Norway’s approach to CVE.
