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Female Suicide Bombers - Dying to Kill
Lisa Ling

United States

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The most surprising thing for me about creating this documentary on female suicide bombers was that we found that women in general are far less inclined to be combatants than men are; they’re far less likely to engage in physical warfare. In this particular instance, and this is limited to the cases we researches in the occupied areas of Palestine and the Chechen Republic, we found that these women who went on to become female suicide bombers had preexisting psychological issues that may have propelled them to commit suicide in the name of their religion. Now this obviously wasn’t a scientific study- the findings were limited to the cases we studied. In spite of these examples of women who did engage in a physical kind of warfare, however, I do think it’s true that women are less inclined to conflict. There’s this image of women as being somehow more peaceful, and I truly believe that women are predisposed to want to engage in dialogue and working towards an understanding of an issue as opposed to capitalizing on a gut reaction and employing military means to do so.

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