Afghan women and violent extremism : colluding, perpetrating, or preventing? / Belquis Ahmadi and Sadaf Lakhani.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Ahmadi, Belquis, author.

Lakhani, Sadaf, author.

Contributor:

United States Institute of Peace, issuing body.

Series:

Special report (United States Institute of Peace) ; 396.

Special report ; 396

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in women--Afghanistan.

Violence in women.

Violence--Afghanistan.

Violence.

Violence--Afghanistan--Prevention.

Insurgency--Afghanistan.

Insurgency.

Insurgency--Afghanistan--Prevention.

Violence--Prevention.

Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Institute of Peace, 2016.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"In Afghanistan, the actions and narratives of violent extremist groups threaten to roll back many of the gains and hard-won rights of women over the last fifteen years. Women have long been cast in a binary light -- as either disempowered victims or deviant anomalies -- but in fact are involved in a wide range of activities, from peacebuilding to recruiting, sympathizing, perpetrating, and preventing violent extremism. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews in the field in Afghanistan, this report delves into the roles women play in the context of violent extremism. A deeper understanding of these roles and the reasons behind them, the report asserts, is critical to effective policy and programming"--Publisher's web site.

Contents:

Peacebuilders or symbols of purity?

Active participants

Anti-Soviet jihad

Taliban insurgency

Motivations for violence

Limits of existing programming

Recommendations.

Notes:

"November 2016."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-16).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (USIP, viewed December 3, 2020).

OCLC:

969976393