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"Exit programs would generally work well in Germany, says Sofia Koller from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). She has been researching how to deal with IS returnees for years. She warns that exit processes do not work linearly. Time and again, life crises could drive former extremists to radical ideology."

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April 24, 2024
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"Sofia Koller is a Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) in Berlin, where she currently focuses on the prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration of returnees from Syria and Iraq."

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March 18, 2024
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"Women’s traditional roles within ISIS have made it hard for some returnees to understand why they were prosecuted, wrote Sofia Koller, a senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit organisation based in New York. In the chapter on Germany, Ms Koller quotes one woman as saying: 'I only cooked, had babies, was sitting the whole day in a madafa [a women’s guest house] and then married the next one.'"

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January 31, 2024
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Wednesday, Nov 22, 2023

Women's Jihadism in France | Dr. Romain Sèze

CEP Webinar: The Sociology of Jihadism – Assessing Women and Men Imprisoned for Islamic Terrorism in France | November 22, 2023

Dr. Romain Sèze
Project Manager, French Prison Administration (DAP), France

Based on a survey conducted in prisons, interviews, and the analysis of assessment reports produced by prison administration, Dr. Romain Sèze (French Prison Administration, DAP) has analysed the militant trajectories of 61 women who had been incarcerated for terrorism-related offenses or were considered radicalized. He was also able to access and analyze, together with Prof. Xavier Crettiez, the assessment files of more than 350 male Islamist terrorists who had been placed in so-called quartiers d’évaluation de la radicalization (QER), or areas for the evaluation of radicalization.

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CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller policy paper on prosecution of returnees in France and CEP report on ISIS's persecution of gay people quoted: "The IIIM’s mandate to only support requests for evidence related to core international crimes has prompted more States to explore such crimes alongside their terrorist cases...
ISIL further capitalized on preexisting homophobia to establish and institutionalize its persecution of gay men."

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November 13, 2023
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ISIS Women in Court: Marcia M. – A Tactical Admission?

The women who left Germany to join ISIS and returned are standing trial. This CEP blog series follows the trials of some of these female returnees, including Monika K. ( read here ) , Nadine K. ( here and here ), Marcia M. ( here ), and Jennifer W. (...

ISIS Women in Court: Jennifer W. – Taking Responsibility

The women who left Germany to join ISIS and returned are standing trial. This CEP blog series follows the trials of some of these female returnees, including Monika K. ( read here ) , Nadine K. ( here and here ), Marcia M. ( here ), and Jennifer W....

ISIS Women in Court: Jennifer W. – Enslavement Resulting in Death

The women who left Germany to join ISIS and returned are standing trial. This CEP blog series follows the trials of some of these female returnees, including Monika K. (read here ) , Nadine K. ( here and here ), and Marcia M. ( here ). An overview of...

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