Women and the Spread of Global Extremism Narratives of ISIS

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10.2991/978-2-38476-350-4_10How to use a DOI?

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ISIS; Women Sympathizers; Emotional Intelligence Approach

Abstract

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a radicalized group that has the goal of building an Islamic caliphate globally. ISIS recruits its members globally and spreads the extremism narrative widely. ISIS recruits more men to fulfill their roles as fighters and martyrs, but the role of women is also needed in ISIS activities as a supporting capacity in every activity carried out by jihadists. The involvement of women is seen as quite effective in polarizing radicalism, because women will continue the descendants of the next generation of ISIS and have a higher humanist and cognitive spirit than men. For this reason, it is interesting to study the radicalization process carried out by ISIS on women, propaganda, and the pattern of approach. This research uses a qualitative approach to gain an understanding of how transnational networks of the ISIS movement influence women and encourage women to join acts of terrorism through propaganda and extremism narratives. It was found that ISIS spreads its ideological narrative through offline and online channels where the basis of its approach is more towards an emotional intelligence approach related to social identity. ISIS uses many social media instruments in the process of spreading its ideology, so a strategy that focuses on a multidimensional and gender-valued approach that involves the entire spectrum of society needed, including governments, civil society, and families, as well as interstate cooperation to prevent polarization of ISIS ideology to women, such as internalization of education and gender equality.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Machya Astuti Dewi
AU  - Yuseptia Angretnowati
AU  - Melaty Anggraini
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/01/15
TI  - Women and the Spread of Global Extremism Narratives of ISIS
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Social and Political Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities in the Future (JICSPS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 100
EP  - 109
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-350-4_10
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-350-4_10
ID  - Dewi2025
ER  -