Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Erin Saltman & Åsne Seierstad with Lennie Goodings (2015 Event)

What draws women to the extremes of war? Åsne Seierstad,
acclaimed author of The Bookseller of Kabul and a seasoned war
reporter, talks about being on the frontline; Erin Saltman,
Senior Counter Extremism Researcher from the Institute for
Strategic Dialogue, tells us what makes young women slip from
their families to go to Syria; and Imperial College psychiatrist
Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones explores the behavioural science behind
it all. Together with Lennie Goodings they discuss women and
extremism, in this event recorded live at the Edinburgh
International Book Festival.