Female radicalisation in Bangladesh: an investigation of its scope, extent and key motivations behind
Female radicalisation in Bangladesh: an investigation of its scope, extent and key motivations behind
Shahla ShahreenShafi Md Mostofaa Department of World Religions and Culture, The University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladeshb Faculty of Arts, The University of Dhaka, Dhaka, BangladeshShahla Shahreen has been employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka since November 29, 2021. She initially joined the department as a Lecturer on July 13, 2017. During this period, she has completed her second Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manchester (with Merit) as a Commonwealth Scholar (2020-21). Her research interests include Radicalisation, Religious Extremism, Religious Violence, Interfaith Dialogue, and Gender and Religion.Shafi Md Mostofa (PhD) is a theologian and security studies scholar with broad interests in political Islam, authoritarianism, modern South Asian history and politics, and international relations and the clash of civilisations. He is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Arts and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is also a postdoctoral research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published extensively with Routledge, Springer, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, SAGE, Brill, Wiley and Blackwell; and the journals: Politics and Religion, Politics and Policy, Perspectives on Terrorism, Diaspora Studies, and Asian and African Studies. He is the author of “Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: A Pyramid Root Cause Model” (Cham, Springer) and “Dynamics of Violent Extremism in South Asia: Nexus between State Fragility and Extremism” (Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan). He is also a guest editor of the Journal of World Affairs, SAGE.