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Author: Meitz, Eric

Title: What About the Women? Understanding and Addressing the Problem of ISIS Female Recruitment in the Western Balkans

Summary: In many ways, female recruits, both from the Western Balkans and other regions, are attracted to the Islamic State for the exact same reasons as men, highlights BCSP guest researcher Eric Mietz. This policy paper aims to bring attention to an oft-neglected security problem in the Western Balkans: women being recruited by and migrating to the Islamic State. The roles of women in the Islamic State and the messaging the group uses to lure women to migrate to Syria and Iraq are sufficiently different to warrant a gender-based perspective in countering violent extremism (CVE) policymaking. The first part of the paper looks at the numbers of women leaving from the Western Balkans to Islamic State-held territory, the profiles of women who migrate, and the roles they take on in the Islamic State. To explain why women are influenced to migrate, the second part examines the "push" and "pull" factors of Islamic State recruitment. The last part focuses on the efforts of Western Balkans governments to criminalize participation in or support of the Islamic State and the disadvantages of relying solely on this policy

Details: Belgrade, Republic of Serbia: Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, 2016. 15p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 3, 2016 at: http://www.bezbednost.org/upload/document/women_and_isis.pdf

Year: 2016

Country: Serbia and Montenegro

URL: http://www.bezbednost.org/upload/document/women_and_isis.pdf

Shelf Number: 140145

Keywords:
ISIS
Islamic State
Radicalization
Recruitment, Women
Terrorism
Terrorists