Gender and Extremism

In this collection of papers, experts weigh in on assumptions about women and violent Islamist extremism that hold back informed policymaking.

A member of jihadist group Al-Nusra Front stands in a street of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 11, 2014. Fighting pitting ISIS against other rebel groups.

Gender

Debunking Myths on Gender and Extremism

Rachel Bryson

A displaced Iraqi woman walks past destroyed buildings south of Mosul on May 26, 2017, as government forces continue their offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.

Gender

ISIS, Women and Jihad: Breaking With Convention

Charlie Winter

Gender

Boko Haram’s Split on Women in Combat

Rachel Bryson
Audu Bulama Bukarti

Gender

Why Men Fight and Women Don’t: Masculinity and Extremist Violence

Elizabeth Pearson

A view of a laptop computer screen showing the Interpol website which features a 'Red Notice' for the arrest of Samantha Lewthwaite on September 26, 2013 in London, England.

Gender

White Widows: The Myth of the Deadliest Jihadi Women

Katherine E. Brown

Gender

Do Mothers Know Best? How Assumptions Harm CVE

Emily Winterbotham

Gender

Neither Feminists nor Victims: How Women’s Agency Has Shaped Palestinian Violence

Devorah Margolin

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