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Women Preventing Violent Extremism Thought for Action Kit Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 (2000) was groundbreaking in that it provided strong support for greater attention to the role of women in international peace and security. It acknowledges the inordinate impact of violent conflict on women and recognizes that women’s empowerment and gender equality are critical to international peace and security. The UN Security Council fully recognizes the critical link between the Women, Peace and Security agenda as laid out in UNSCR 1325 and the role women could and should play in preventing violent extremism. This document has three sections. The first section examines the question of gender and why it is important to consider both men and women, and the dynamics of gender roles in society when addressing violent extremism. The second section deals specifically with women and the underlying forces of extremist violence. It invites thinking about women as actors in preventative efforts as well as perpetrators of terrorist acts. Finally, the third section raises issues related to the various ways in which to engage communities, including members of the security sector. Each section opens with a brief introductory background, followed by short essays by some of the leading experts in this field. Each section also includes practical exercises that may prove useful for training and further dialogue. 
Resolution 2178 (2014) Adopted by the Security Council at Its 7272nd Meeting, on 24 September 2014 Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: United Nations Security Council This resolution expanded the counter-terrorism framework by imposing obligations on member states to respond to the threat of foreign terrorist fighters. Through the resolution, the Council condemned violent extremism and decided that Member States shall, consistent with international law, prevent the "recruiting, organizing, transporting or equipping of individuals who travel to a State other than their States of residence or nationality for the purpose of the preperation, planning of, of participation in terrorist acts." Expressing concern over the establishment of international terrorist networks, the Council underscored the "particular and urgent need" to prevent the travel and support for foreign terrorist fighters associated with the Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Nusra Front (ANL) and other affiliates or splinter groups of Al-Qaida. In that context, the Council, through the resolution, decided that all States shall ensure that their legal systems provide for the prosecution, as serious criminal offences, of travel for terrorism or related training, as well as the financing or facilitation of such activities. Member States, it also decided, shall prevent entry or transit through their territories of any individual about whom that state had credible information of their terrorist-related intentions, without prejudice to transit necessary for the furtherance of judicial processes. It called on States to require airlines to provide passenger lists for that purpose. Outlining further measures for international cooperation to counter international terrorism and prevent the growth of violent extremism, it expressed readiness to designate additional individuals for sanctions listings, and directed the United Nations counter-terrorism subsidiary bodies to devote special focus to foreign terrorist fighters, assessing the threat they posed and reporting on principal gaps in Member States' abilities to suppress their travel. 
Development of classroom hour for a healthy lifestyle for students of 6-11 grades: Methodical guide for teachers Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) | Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) This manual has been developed to help pedagogical workers of educational institutions (class teachers, subject teachers) to conduct class hours in a healthy lifestyle using educational videos on the following basic topics: (1) the characteristics of adolescence, (2) the concept of "gender ", “Gender” and “gender equality”, (3) prevention of the consumption of psychoactive substances, (4) decision making and resistance to peer pressure, (5) love and sexual relations, (6) reproductive health and contraception, (7) HIV prevention, (8) interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution, (9) trolling and cyberbulling.