Human Terrain & Anthropology (merged thread)

[Ken White]

Worked for me...

[SteveMetz]

Worked for me...

That's the exact reason that I argued in Rethinking Insurgency that women's empowerment should be a central component of counterinsurgency. If you look at inner city gangs you see that it's not JUST have girls, but it's having empowered girls that constrains male aggression. After all, Sageman notes that most terrorists have families or girlfriends. The Timothy McVeigh--I'm-going-to-blow-something-up-because-I-can't-get-a-girl phenomenon is relatively rare.

[SWJED]

That's the exact reason that I argued in Rethinking Insurgency that women's empowerment should be a central component of counterinsurgency.

Sorry for being so short on words, multi-tasking at the moment. One word does, however, sum up your observation - bingo.