This briefing paper aims to chart the way forward on a gender and human rights approach to one aspect of preventive counter-terrorism policy by: briefly comparing the key elements of the new U.S. strategy with the U.K.’s pre- and post-June 2011 Prevent strategy (Section I); identifying both why and how the previous and current Prevent each approach women’s empowerment and inclusion (Section II); and making a series of recommendations to the USG based on the gendered challenges and opportunities elucidated by the Prevent experience (Section III).