Women and Girls as Perpetrators of Violent Extremism

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).