Prioritise Peace: Challenging approaches to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism from a Women, Peace and Security Perspective
Categories: Violent Conflict
Sub-Categories: Countering Violent Extremism, National Security Forces and Armed Groups, Security Sector Reform (SSR)
Region: No Region
Year: 2018
Citation: Gender Action for Peace and Security, “Prioritise Peace: Challenging Approaches to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism from a Women, Peace and Security Perspective,” April 2018.
Sub-Categories: Countering Violent Extremism, National Security Forces and Armed Groups, Security Sector Reform (SSR)
Region: No Region
Year: 2018
Citation: Gender Action for Peace and Security, “Prioritise Peace: Challenging Approaches to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism from a Women, Peace and Security Perspective,” April 2018.
Executive Summary
This paper by Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) outlines several concerns regarding how the preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) agenda is progressing in ways that are harmful to WPS, women’s rights, and women’s rights organizations in conflict-affected contexts. The paper argues that this leads to only a tokenistic inclusion of women in the P/CVE agenda and leads to the neglect of other forms of human rights abuses and violence against women. Applied to women’s civil society organizations (CSOs), the paper further argues that an emphasis on P/CVE outcomes leads to a shift in funding in which women-run CSOs are beholden to P/CVE funding, which detracts from their ability to advocate for women’s rights.