Social-ecological portrait of two females from Montreal who joined ISIS

Abstract

Her research in comparative and international education focuses on women and development, critical multicultural education and social justice issues, refugee education, and the role of education in combating violent extremism. Dr Hicham Tiflati is a senior researcher studying Canadian foreign fighters based at Waterloo University. Dr Tiflati is also coordinator of the 'Canadian Muslims online' project based at UQÀM, and a fellow at the Center for the Research on Religion (CREOR) at McGill University. He was a co-investigator for the study 'Educational trajectories of radicalized females' at McGill University. Helal Hossain Dhali is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrated Studies, Faculty of Education, at McGill University. His research centres on the role of education in youth perceptions of extremism in Bangladesh. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies in Dhaka University, Bangladesh. His areas of interest include education, extremism, environment and gender.