“Resource Spotlight Monday”: Today, the Gender and Identity Factors Platform (GIFP) features a collection of three resources that explore the gender dimensions of the screening, prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration (SPRR) of persons associated with terrorist groups.
SPRR provides a crucial approach within counter terrorism and the prevention and countering of violent extremism (CT/PCVE), especially following the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or otherwise known as Da’esh) in Iraq and Syria. Following their defeat, significant questions emerged surrounding the treatment and handling of women associated with ISIL, as well as the spouses and families, children, and foreign terrorist fighters (FTF). The collection of resources offers insights as to how gender-sensitive approaches can be undertaken within the SPRR framework to ensure the sustainable rehabilitation and reintegration of persons associated with terrorist groups such as Da’esh.
These resources include the following:
- Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Reintegration and Rehabilitation. Key Findings and Programming Guidance on the Gendered Dimensions of Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration from Violent Extremism.
- Gender-sensitive responses to returnees from foreign terrorist organizations: insights for practitioners.
- Female Returnees and their Children: Psychotherapeutic perspectives on the rehabilitation of women and children from the former territories of the so-called Islamic State
Visit the links above from the Resource Library to read more! You can find more resources in the library by selecting research theme “Criminal Justice Response and Rehabilitation, Reintegration”. Please feel welcome to comment any thoughts or questions you might have.
Remember you can explore additional human rights-based resources via GIFP Resource Library. The library spans a multitude of thematic areas of focus across the nexus of gender CT/PCVE, outlining some of the key concepts critical to understanding gender dynamics within terrorism and violent extremism, as well as the programmes and policies that seek to counter and prevent them. All resources are publicly accessible