Episode 1: Examining the Multi-Faceted Impacts of Gender on Counterterrorism

Gender inequality can itself be a driver of violent extremism, and gendered dynamics of ideologies, radicalisation, recruitment and participation all need to be considered. Governments tend to make policy agreements at a high level to include women in security programming, but this often does not carry through to implementation.

There needs to be a meaningful commitment by governments to mainstream gender in this way, so that women are not just added in without considering why they were not there to begin with, and to take into account how gender impacts all individuals. Following from this, what actions need to be taken in order to gather gendered data on local counterterrorism contexts, and to improve the effectiveness of policy and programming?

What Can Work (and What Has Not Worked) in Women-Centric P/CVE Initiatives: Assessing the Evidence Base for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

Gender Mainstreaming in Counter-Terrorism Policy: Building Transformative Strategies to Counter Violent Extremism

Gender in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

Different Cities, Shared Stories: A Five-Country Study Challenging Assumptions Around Muslim Women and CVE Interventions

Women, Gender and Daesh Radicalisation: A Milieu Approach

Pearson, ER., Winterbotham, E., & Brown, K. E. Countering Violent Extremism: Making Gender Matter (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Gender, Religion and Extremism: finding women in anti-radicalisation (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Gender Mainstreaming Principles, dimensions and Priorities in PVE (UN Women, New York, 2019)

Gender Specific Approaches to EXIT work (Radicalisation Awareness Network, 2019)