US Approaches to Countering Violent Extremism Must Prioritize Women
Michelle Barsa, March 2015
Summary
Terrorist groups excel at exploiting gender dynamics: they track the location of female security personnel and use that information to their strategic advantage by dressing as women to cross checkpoints, knowing they won’t be searched; they prey on the vulnerability of young girls and deploy them as suicide bombers; they impose harsh restrictions on women’s freedoms aware of how this tears at the social fabric of communities.
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Violent Extremism CVE Gender
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