Gina Vale
Dr. Gina Vale is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ISCR) at King’s College London and an Associate Fellow at M&C Saatchi World Services, specialising in gender-sensitive analysis of terrorism and extremist violence. Her doctoral research examined the impact of Islamic State’s governance and state-building activities on local Sunni Muslim and Yazidi women in Iraq and Syria. She has academic and professional experience in Europe, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and has conducted extensive fieldwork in internally displaced persons camps in Northern Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Gina studies and consults on issues such as women and minors’ (de)radicalisation; female- and minor-focused propaganda; and the roles of female and underage extremists and combatants. Her research has been published by Studies in Conflict & Terrorism; Small Wars & Insurgencies; Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement, and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence; CTC Sentinel; and Conflict, Security & Development, among others.
This Policy Brief outlines several approaches that can be adopted by U.S. policymakers to address the challenges posed by militia violent extremist groups.
This Perspective analyses the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto to understand the broader context and factors that motivated this perpetrator.
Drawing on the Buffalo shooting, this Perspective considers what insights can be gathered to tackle violent right-wing content online.