Assessing Person-Centered Outcomes in Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Conflict

Women and children returning from formerly ISIS-controlled territories have been exposed to trauma and adversity. They also face challenges upon returning to their countries of origin, including ruptured social networks, family conflict, community stigma, challenges of acculturation and resettlement stress, and identity conflicts with surrounding society. Unless these challenges are addressed, returning women and their children remain more vulnerable to retaining or reforming ties with violent extremist networks as a means of fulfilling some or all these needs.