To Address Extremisms In The New Decade, Do What The Women Say
ICAN’s Senior Program Officer, Rosalie Fransen provides a gendered analysis of emerging trends and threats in the CT and P/CVE landscape.
Invisible Women Videos: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration
Case study interview videos from the joint ICAN and UNDP publication, Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Reintegration and Rehabilitation.
Boko Haram and Banditry: Northeast Nigeria’s Deteriorating Security Situation
“We need a special intervention, we need our country back, it’s becoming lawless”, warns women’s rights and peace activist, Hamsatu Allamin, WASL member and Founder of Allamin Foundation. The situation in northeast and northwest Nigeria demands urgent international attention, not only as a matter of humanitarian urgency but also for its impact on international peace and security.
Nigeria’s Allamin: Supporting Returnees and Preventing Recruitment to Violent Extremist Groups
Allamin Foundation support returnees and survivors of abduction and forced marriage. The foundation works to significantly reduce the entrenched culture of silence suffered by returnees in Nigeria and empower stakeholders to manage conflicts and grievances nonviolently.
How Women Peacebuilders are Balancing Work on COVID-19 and Violent Extremism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, women peacebuilders witnessed an increase in xenophobia and extremist messaging. Weakness in state infrastructure and response has left a vacuum which extremist actors have exploited for their own interests. Women peacebuilders are meeting this challenge by building a counter-narrative that is also grounded in the local culture, religion, and traditions.
“We need to be connected with you and establish new working methods for inclusive, sustainable peace,” remarked State Secretary Marianne Hagen from Norway who joined the 9th weekly call with the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL).
Read the full summary of the call.