Abstract
This chapter focuses on the participants’ understanding of gender in state and civil society attempts to prevent and counter violent extremism. This chapter begins by examining community understanding of CVE generally, before focusing on specific issues such as objectives, delivery and consequences of CVE. This chapter focuses on the surprising number of shared stories from different cities across all five research countries, despite each employing a different approach. It revealed significant challenges to specific CVE focus on Muslim women, and the assumptions that underpin this, assumptions that emphasise: mothers, women’s empowerment; the blanket partnering of ‘Muslim communities’; and the omission of men in positive roles, such as fathers.
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Based on figures of those who have attempted or successfully travelled to Daesh or who have been prosecuted for terrorism-related offences.
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Pearson, E., Winterbotham, E., Brown, K.E. (2020). Countering Violent Extremism and Gender: Challenging Assumptions. In: Countering Violent Extremism. Rethinking Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21962-8_6
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