Who Are the Women Who Take Up Arms?  January 12, 2011 Dyan
Mazurana  Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana   Why would a woman join
an armed group? Why would a woman become a suicide bomber?  When
we think of terrorist groups, we think of fervent believers who
are motivated to join a rebel group by ideology or as a response
to abject poverty. But Dyan Mazurana, the Director of Gender,
Youth and Community at Tufts University’s Feinstein
International Famine Center, says that a cycle of violence is
much more to blame for women’s participation in armed conflict
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