A Preliminary Dialogue on the Nexus of Economic Policy, Gender and Violent Extremism
A Brief on Policy and Practice to Inform National Strategies for Preventing Violent Extremism and Promoting Sustainable Peace.
Women peace practitioners and rights activists have long been concerned by decisions made at global and national levels that at the local level impact dynamics of economic exclusion, threaten social cohesion and exacerbate vulnerabilities to radicalization. Violent extremism and state responses to it place significant economic burden on societies. The members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) have consistently draw attention to this gap between policy intentions and realities on the ground. Their lived experiences of the economic dynamics in contexts affected by violent extremism, combined with desk research on the state of current policy and practice, and the multistakeholder Global Solutions Exchange (GSX)2 meeting on these issues held at the UNDP headquarters in New York in March 2017, inform the findings of this report.
Preventing Violent Extremism, Protecting Rights and Community Policing
“There is no trade-off between policing and human rights. Policing at its best should be the guardian and amplifier of human rights in society.”
Sir Stephen House QPM
From the Ground Up – The Nexus of Economic Policy, Gender and Violent Extremism
“Human Rights provide a very powerful normative lens to evaluate how economic policy works.”
Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan
Education, Identity and Rising Extremism
“The most dangerous world views are the views of those who have never viewed the world.”
Noufal Abboud
Uncomfortable Truths, Unconventional Wisdoms – WASL Security Brief
“Help us talk. Don’t just arm us to kill.”
Woman Peacebuilder
Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration from Violent Extremism
“10-13 percent of foreign citizens who joined ISIL between 2013 and 2018 are women.”
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