How Women Can Beat Terrorism

In How Women Can Beat Terrorism, author Curt Weeden sounds an urgent warning: If the world stays on its present course, terrorism and conflict may take the lives of over 100 million people during the next three decades. Give women the opportunity and resources to combat poverty and hopelessness that help fuel terrorism and the gloomy forecast improves, writes Weeden. A billion-dollar grant-maker who has worked for 30 years with international development organizations, corporations and foundations, Weeden concludes that in many poor countries, women are the pathway to a better quality of life -- and to a future where terrorism becomes less of a threat. However, Weeden adds, empowering women in these poor regions of the world is not likely to happen without assistance from women in the U.S., Europe and other industrialized countries. How Women Can Beat Terrorism presents a simple but compelling plan for helping billions of men, women and children living in poverty while at the same time, making the Western world less prone to a multitude of deadly terrorist attacks. No book has assigned more importance to women than Weeden's compelling and unsettling How Women Can Beat Terrorism. A well-documented book that makes a powerful case for engaging women as the main foot soldiers in the war against terrorism. An internationally recognized philanthropy expert and author writes passionately about why women must battle terrorism -- and what will happen if they don't.