Finding the right mix

Re-evaluating the road to gender-equality in countering violent extremism programming

Bibliographic Data

ID12918924
AuthorsJessica White (0000-0002-7572-5044, Royal United Services Institute, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume15
Issue3
Pages585-609
Publication date2022-02-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17539153.2022.2036423
OpenAlexW4210620053
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited50

The adoption of gender mainstreaming strategies has become an increasingly common expectation within countering terrorism and violent extremism policy and programming. Through comparative case study examination of two iterations of a Strengthening Resilience to Violent Extremism programme, this article shows that practitioners are often left struggling to design effective and transformative strategies that can overcome practical and conceptual barriers. This is due to several intersecting and compounding elements, including institutional conceptual limitations around gender and gender equality in the security context, a weak evidence base on how and why gender plays a role in violent extremism, and a lack of effective feminist knowledge transfer and co-creation processes between academic and practitioner researchers

Context (archaeology · Criminology · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Gender equality · Gender mainstreaming · Peacebuilding · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Terrorism · Transformative learning · Violent extremism · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence