“Women are also used as influencers because it is also believed that women can talk to women.”

Expert guests Kemi Okenyodo of Partners West Africa - Nigeria/Rule of Law & Empowerment Initiative, Ella Abatan of Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Yobe State University’s Hadiza Bukar discuss the multi-faceted roles that women play in both countering violent extremism and working in support of violent extremist organisations in Episode 3 of Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa Edition.