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Countering the Terrorist Mentality: Women as Victims and Victimizers
Photo courtesy of Mia Bloom |
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Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST (1400 GMT)
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The cover of the edition of the eJournal USA entitled "Countering the Terrorist Mentality" features a photograph that captures a Russian woman's horror as she gazes at photographs of children killed in the 2004 terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, Russia. But women have been both victims and victimizers with regard to global terrorism. Professor Mia Bloom points out that many women were prominent in the 1970s and 1980s in Latin American and European terrorist organizations and, with Germany's Red Army Faction and Second of June Movement, made up as much as one-third of the group's personnel. The change from women functioning in mostly supportive roles to women taking more active, operational roles (such as suicide bombers) is more recent development in global terrorism. On June 20 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (14:00 GMT), join Bloom for an online discussion of this and other trends involving women and terrorism.
Guest Biography: Mia Bloom is an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
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