Description
The Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism agenda has grown in relevance since 2014 and has been vernacularised in local communities through various programs. Critical questions need to be raised when reflecting on the trajectory of the vernacularisation of the P/CVE agenda, especially concerning how women's engagement is framed in discourses, how women are engaged in practice, and which women are involved. In this paper, I explore whose security informs the P/CVE agenda by investigating what the national level PCVE agenda means for women in Southern Philippines. Specifically, I examine how the P/CVE agenda affects women's material conditions and political agency. This study is based on fieldwork interviews conducted with over 40 participants, including policymakers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and Grassroots Women Organisation (GWOs) in the Southern Philippines.
