It will benefit stakeholders working in this area to ensure that holistic understandings of gender identity are integrated into policy and programming approaches to prevent violent extremism.Water, energy and food nexus of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) is presented in the light of water governance. It offers policy makers and practitioners a unique insight into the gender dynamics that underpin violent extremism in South and South-East Asia. It emphasises how structures of patriarchy and harmful performances of masculinity are deeply embedded in the modus operandi of violent extremist groups. This publication includes expert analyses through case studies to highlight how unequal gender power structures fuel and shape violent extremism around the region. This research is the result of a joint effort between both agencies to better understand the relationship between violent extremism and gender power relations in South and South-East Asia, specifically as it relates to radicalization and recruitment, in order to inform programming and policy responses. UN Women and UNDP have been working to ensure that efforts to prevent violent extremism are inclusive and based on the promotion and protection of women’s human rights. Underpinning this violence are gender stereotypes that are used to radicalize and recruit men and women, as well as girls and boys, to violent extremist groups. Across South and South-East Asia, violent extremism poses a direct threat to inclusive development by fuelling intolerance, forcibly displacing communities, exacerbating cycles of insecurity and armed conflict, exploiting existing inequalities, and obstructing the enjoyment of human rights and the rule of law. Violent extremism has emerged as one of the leading challenges to the realization of sustainable peace globally.
Engaging boys and young men in gender equality.Action on ending violence against young women and girls.
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