IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/unm/unumer/2020054.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Women, leadership and violent extremism: A potential security risk?

Author

Listed:
  • Wertz, Aurélie

    (ENABEL, Belgium)

  • Mbuvi, Dorcas

    (UNU-MERIT)

Abstract

This paper examines an important and overlooked subject area. Women's role in extremist organisations is neglected in general, and the question of their tactical leadership in these settings is poorly understood. Without specific focus on particular extremist movements or ideologies and, to advance understanding and spur critical discussions around female leadership in violent extremism, we propose three conceptual models. The first details key drivers that plausibly facilitate the emergence of female extremist leaders. The second discusses six possible female leadership styles and the third touches on female spheres of influence in violent extremism. The paper provides preliminary explorative insights on a neglected topic while offering opportunities for further research.

Suggested Citation

  • Wertz, Aurélie & Mbuvi, Dorcas, 2020. "Women, leadership and violent extremism: A potential security risk?," MERIT Working Papers 2020-054, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    • Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2020054
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2020/wp2020-054.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Institute for Economics and Peace, 2017. "Global Peace Index 2017," Working Papers id:11991, eSocialSciences.
    2. Rebecca S. Cruise, 2016. "Enough with the Stereotypes: Representations of Women in Terrorist Organizations," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 97(1), pages 33-43, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Asongu, Simplice & Acha-Anyi, Paul, 2019. "Global Tourism and Waves of Terror: Perspectives from Military Expenditure," MPRA Paper 101793, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Mohamed Abdel Jelil & Kartika Bhatia & Anne Brockmeyer & Quy-Toan Do & CleÌ ment Joubert, 2018. "Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits," HiCN Working Papers 273, Households in Conflict Network.
    3. Simplice A. Asongu & Jacinta C. Nwachukwu & Chris Pyke, 2019. "The Right to Life: Global Evidence on the Role of Security Officers and the Police in Modulating the Effect of Insecurity on Homicide," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 143(2), pages 727-740, June.
    4. repec:mje:mjejnl:v:12:y:2017:i:3:p:101-118 is not listed on IDEAS
    5. Kjell Hausken & John F. Moxnes, 2019. "Innovation, Development and National Indices," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(3), pages 1165-1188, February.
    6. Jamileh Kadivar, 2020. "Exploring Takfir, Its Origins and Contemporary Use: The Case of Takfiri Approach in Daesh’s Media," Contemporary Review of the Middle East, , vol. 7(3), pages 259-285, September.
    7. Hocine, Amine & Kouaissah, Noureddine, 2020. "XOR analytic hierarchy process and its application in the renewable energy sector," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    8. Carlos Solar, 2019. "Chile’s Peacekeeping and the Post-UN Intervention Scenario in Haiti," International Studies, , vol. 56(4), pages 272-291, October.
    9. Fethi Mansouri & Amanuel Elias, 2021. "The Intercultural Dialogue Index (ICDI): An Index for Assessing Intercultural Relations," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 411-453, June.
    10. Dare Ojo Omonijo* & Olusola B. Okunlola & Oliver Onyekwere C. Uche & Michael C. Anyaegbunam & Jonathan A. Odukoya & Elizabeth I. Olowookere & Olusola Joshua Olujobi, 2018. "An Exploratory Study of Modeling as an Educational Tool for Adolescent Moral Development," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, pages 276-288:4.
    11. Dumitru-Mihai Luca, 2020. "The Global Economic Impact of Terrorism," European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Articles, European Center for Science Education and Research, September.
    12. Simplice A. Asongu & Joseph I. Uduji & Elda N. Okolo-Obasi, 2019. "Tourism and insecurity in the world," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 66(4), pages 453-472, December.
    13. Yilmaz Bayar & Marius Dan Gavriletea, 2018. "Peace, terrorism and economic growth in Middle East and North African countries," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 52(5), pages 2373-2392, September.
    14. Levi, Sebastian & Goldberg, Matthew H., 2021. "Democracy influences climate change concern," SocArXiv 6vk9d, Center for Open Science.
    15. Pierre Philippe Balestrini, 2021. "Counterterrorism Evaluation and Citizens: More Than about Policing?," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-18, August.
    16. Arvydas Survila & Edvinas Mikenas & Brigita Zhuromskaite, 2017. "The Impact of Terrorism on the Tourism Sector of Lithuania," Montenegrin Journal of Economics, Economic Laboratory for Transition Research (ELIT), vol. 13(3), pages 101-118.
    17. Jackie Harrison & Diana Maynard & Sara Torsner, 2020. "Strengthening the Monitoring of Violations against Journalists through an Events-Based Methodology," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 89-100.
    18. Berezka Kateryna & Kovalchuk Olha, 2019. "Modelling Factors Connected with the Effect of International Migration for Security and Economy," Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis, Sciendo, vol. 23(4), pages 30-42, December.
    19. Jean-Charles Marin & Bryan B-Trudel & Kazimierz Zaras & Mamadou Sylla, 2020. "Targeting Poverty and Developing Sustainable Development Objectives for the United Nation’s Countries using a Systematic Approach Combining DRSA and Multiple Linear Regressions," Bulletin of Applied Economics, Risk Market Journals, vol. 7(2), pages 1-24.
    20. Indra de Soysa, 2021. "Economic governance and homicide: Some theory and empirics, 1990–2017," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 58(5), pages 1004-1017, September.
    21. E. A. Kanaev & A. S. Korolev, 2019. "Greater Eurasia, Indo-Pacific Region and Russia-ASEAN Relations," Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law, Center for Crisis Society Studies, vol. 12(1).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    women; gender; violent extremism; leadership styles; counter-terrorism; security threats;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • F52 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - National Security; Economic Nationalism
    • H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2020054. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ad Notten (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/meritnl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.