This PhD thesis advocates for indigenous gender sensitive approaches to PCVE in the African Context, with a specific focus on Kenya. It focuses on how to enhance Africanness and on prioritizing knowledge drawn from the local level - specifically from local women. It resists gender and racialized stereotypes, and advocates for women as producers of knowledge about terrorism, violent extremism and how to counter it. To do so it relies on conflict transformation theory. It is in Chapter 6 that empirical examples and data are assessed. It also includes specific areas of women’s active engagement in PCVE including in trauma healing, invoking traditional sacred value system, adopting care and compassion as core principles, as well as promoting non-violence in society. It recommends women’s empowerment and women’s agency in PCVE overall.
2022