Women and Girls as Perpetrators of Violent Extremism
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In this podcast we discuss the role of women and girls as perpetrators of violent extremism and increasingly as fully-autonomous radicalized terrorists. We explore how the online world is exploited by terrorist groups for propaganda and recruitment purposes. Hear from: Eileen O’Connor, U.S. Deputy Assistant State Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Dr. Anna Gray-Henschel, Senior Director for National Security Policy with Public Security Canada, Humera Khan, Executive Director of the U.S. Based think tank ‘Muflehun’, and Dr. Harald Weilnböck, Director of the WomEx Project and Co-Leader of the EU Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN) Working Group on Deradicalization. This podcast was recorded in 2014 at a Workshop on Advancing Women’s Roles in Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism, held in Vienna on 21-22 October, by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF).