Women and terrorism

The number of female perpetrators in terrorist groups has increased recently all over the world. Women play various roles: fighters, suicide bombers, recruiters, helpers etc. Women are also used increasingly for attacks as, due to cultural reasons, they tend to be checked less by security forces.

But why do women join terrorist groups? What programs are there to deradicalize them and how successful are they?

This what Dr. Mariann Kármán has just talked about at our conference: 2021 International Virtual conference on “Counter-Terrorism, Technology and Development in Africa”.

You can read more on female violencers in the next edition of the Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies (JCEEAS) coming up in November and available here:

https://jceeas.bdi.uni-obuda.hu/index.php/jceeas/issue/archive

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