Cut From the Same Cloth? The Problem of Male Supremacy and Deradicalization

Abstract

In this short essay, we show that, despite the recent turn to including masculinity and male supremacist ideology into Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism programming (P/CVE), current deradicalization approaches often remain based on ideas about male victimhood and gender hierarchies that are eerily similar to those that are at the core of male supremacist ideology and (interpersonal and political) misogynist violence. We argue that to effectively address male supremacist radicalization, P/CVE approaches must challenge and disrupt their own underlying male supremacist views of gender relations.