Sec. 1035. Independent assessment on gender and countering violent extremism
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The Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into a contract with a nonprofit entity or a federally funded research and development center independent of the Department of Defense to conduct research and analysis on the intersection of gender and violent extremism and terrorism. The research and analysis conducted under subsection
(a)shall include research and analysis of the following: The root and proximate causes of women’s participation in terrorist and violent extremist organizations. Ways for the Department of Defense to engage women and girls who are vulnerable to extremist and terrorist behavior. Ways women and girls can assist the Armed Forces and partner military organizations in identifying individuals of concern. The intersection of violent extremism and terrorism and the following: Gender-based violence. Women’s empowerment at the household level, such as property and inheritance rights, bride-price and dowry, and the level of societal sanction for the killing or harming of women. Adolescent girls’ empowerment, such as the level of early, child, and forced marriage, and of girls’ access to secondary education. Best practices for the Armed Forces to support women preventing and countering violent extremism and terrorism. Any other matters the Secretary of Defense determines to be appropriate. The Secretary of Defense shall utilize the results of the research conducted under subsection
(a)to inform each geographic combatant command’s strategy report and individual country strategy reports, where appropriate. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the nonprofit entity or federally funded research and development center with which the Secretary of Defense enters into contract under subsection
(a)shall submit to the Secretary of Defense a report that contains the assessment required by subsection (a). Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the results of research conducted under subsection (a).