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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: Women and men both join or support armed groups with nationalistic, ethnic, religious, or territorial aims largely for the same reasons. Less examined, however, are the motivations that lead women to support violent groups that routinely and tactically violate ... read morewomen’s rights. Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, although they act, ostensibly, against the personal interests of women can still count many women as supporters. This paper analyzes how and why women lend their support to groups with mandates that, either explicitly or practically, restrict women’s rights, such as the rights to bodily integrity and autonomy, education, and work.read less
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