Tonight at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Graeme Wood of The Atlantic and Devorah Margolin of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism will participate in the public program “ISIS without the Caliphate: What Happens Now?”
Last week, Foreign Policy published an article by Devorah Margolin, Joana Cook and Charlie Winter on the urgent situation of the women and minors left behind in prisons and in camps in the wake of the collapse of the caliphate. The hasty withdrawal of U.S. forces and allies from Syria, without addressing the plight of these women and children, risks exacerbating an already difficult situation, Margolin and her coauthors argue.
“Amid this lack of appetite (and increasingly ability) to take action, thousands of women and a whole generation of children appear to have been written off by their governments as a lost cause,” the authors write. “Not only does this miscalculation constitute a moral and humanitarian disaster, but its security implications are grave, for these same people could become a lifeline for the Islamic State moving forward, whether or not they support it now.”
Reserve tickets to tonight’s program, or watch the livestream here beginning at 7 p.m.
By 9/11 Memorial Staff
