Gender and Counterextremism

Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert is a researcher and practitioner working on women, gender, political violence and counterextremism in Europe and the Arab world. She was a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published on women in ISIS and Al-Qaeda and on women’s roles in PVE/CVE in Germany, UK and Lebanon. Jennifer works as a facilitator of counter-extremism and community empowerment training and has several years of work experience in civic education, intercultural dialogue and counterextremism in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.