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Different Cities, Shared Stories
The RUSI Journal, Volume: 161, Issue: 5, Pages: 54 - 65
Swansea University Author:
Elizabeth Pearson
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/03071847.2016.1253377
Abstract
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....
| Published in: | The RUSI Journal |
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| ISSN: | 0307-1847 1744-0378 |
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Informa UK Limited
2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43210 |
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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. The approach has been particularly prevalent in Western Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) projects aimed at preventing homegrown Islamist radicalisation. On the basis of fieldwork with Muslim communities in five countries – Canada, the UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands – Emily Winterbotham and Elizabeth Pearson challenge the underlying assumptions of such an approach, and suggest aspects of women’s CVE projects may exacerbate existing community tensions, and do not reflect the changing norms of Muslim communities in the West. Alternative modes of engagement could improve the efficacy of CVE and enable it to better appeal to those it is intended to help. |
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| Keywords: |
radicalisation; women; gender; Europe; Daesh; ISIS; CVE; counter-radicalization |
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5 |
| Start Page: |
54 |
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65 |