by Genderhub | 17 Apr 2020 | Radical Violence and Masculinity
Research undertaken by the PERICLES team at TCD, reveals that Ireland is an unusual context in relation to the form contemporary violent extremism takes. With no strong evidence of violent radicalisation to the political right or extremist Islamism, radicalised...
by Genderhub | 21 Apr 2020 | Radical Violence and Femininity
The material in the Genderhub demonstrates that terrorism and violent extremism are ‘highly gendered activities’ (N’Dungu and Shadung, 2017). Yet the automatic gender association tends to relate this violence to men and masculinity. Our own PERICLES Gap Analysis,...
by Genderhub | 20 Apr 2020 | Radical Violence and Femininity
Alexander. Audrey. 2019. “Key Considerations: Forward Thinking About Women, Gender, and Violent Extremism”. George Washington University Pearson. Elizabeth. 2018. “Why Men Fight and Women Don’t: Masculinity and Extremist Violence.” Tony...
by Genderhub | 11 Nov 2020 | Gender and Countering Violent Extremism
2020 marks two decades since the formal integration of gender into the UN’s mandate of conflict prevention and resolution. According to Aleksandra Dier, Gender Coordinator at the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the...
by Genderhub | 17 Apr 2020 | Gender and Countering Violent Extremism
How does art help a subject who has been the victim of violent attacks and state subjugation? Does it become an act of pleasure? Or a tool for self-narration? The work of Shirin Neshat who is an Iranian visual artist bring out a way through which art becomes a medium...
