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Failure to Detonate: Gender and Inchoate Suicide Missions
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SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The proposed research focuses on suicide terrorism. It investigates operatives or captives of Boko Haram (Nigeria) who deliberately refused to detonate their suicide vests. Scholars have overwhelmingly focused on "successful" suicide terrorism with much attention on the structural, organization and other factors that shape individuals who carry out suicide acts. However, not all suicide bombing attempts are successful. The proposed study draws on a sample of young women and girls who were (1) deployed on suicide missions, (2) refused to detonate their bombs, (3) fled to the side of the government for assistance or (4) simply returned to civilian life. The main question that guides this research is: Why do some women and girls refuse to detonate their suicide bombs despite being indoctrinated to carry out such missions? With that as the overarching question, this study will also investigate the following: How do female Boko Haram captives and volunteers, who managed to escape serving as human bombs, make sense of their experiences? What are the policy implications of the lived experiences of such women and girls? What can governments, like Canada’s, glean from the experiences of these women and girls that would help them in developing counter radicalization/extremist strategies? This study adopts a qualitative methodology. Primary data will be garnered through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and government reports. The proposed research will generate policy recommendations for deradicalization, rehabilitation and reintegration of former members or captives of religiously-inspired terrorism.
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- 2018-02-01
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- Grant Application
- Bombers
- Cameroon
- Extremists
- Boko Haram
- Suicide
- Abuja
- Insight Development Grant
- Sociology
- United Kingdom
- Political Science
- International Terrorism
- Gender
- Jihadi
- Women
- Maiduguri
- Lagos
- Female Agency in Terrorism
- 2001-2019
- Criminology
- Deradicalization
- Law and Justice
- Successful SSHRC
- Terrorism Studies
- New Wars
- United States
- 2018
- Armed Conflict
- Violence
- Suicide Terrorism
- Anti-Terrorism Policy
- Nigeria
- Canada
- IDG
- Inchoate Suicide Missions
- Girls
- Reintegration
- North America
- Nigeria
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- Research Material
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- © Oriola, Temitope. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2023.