Khalid Koser
Executive Director, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
Khalid Koser

It is crucial to promote gender parity in efforts to prevent violent extremism. It is only through inclusion – by empowering, engaging, and integrating in their communities people of all genders and backgrounds – that we can hope to defeat the absolutist, exclusive, and lethal scourge of violent extremism.

I support the IGC Panel Parity Pledge.

I support the IGC gender-based violence pledge.

Personal Commitments

As GCERF starts implementing our new Strategy 2026-29, I commit to ensuring balanced participation of women and girls in our programmes (between 40-60%)
I commit that GCERF’s work will elevate and promote the role of women-led organizations working in the field of prevention and countering violent extremism (e.g. The Carol Bellamy Leadership Award)