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

Emily Winterbotham, Elizabeth Pearson

The RUSI Journal, Volume: 161, Issue: 5, Pages: 54 - 65

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/03071847.2016.1253377

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In 2015, UN Security Council Resolution 2242 advocated deliberate outreach to women when devising counterterrorism projects. This is based on assumptions of the need to empower women, as well as their particular ability to exert benign influence over young people and stop radicalisation to violence....

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ISSN: 0307-1847 1744-0378
Published: 2016
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