Julia Santucci, a senior adviser at the U.S. State Department, penned an article this week on the relationship between countering violent extremism and gender equality (“Countering Violent Extremism Means Countering Gender Equality”). I spent much of the early part of my career studying Islamist mobilization — both violent and non-violent. Later, in southern Afghanistan, I … Continue reading Gender Inequality and Terrorism: This is Not the Causal Relationship You’re Looking For