ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter collates analysis regarding the significance of Bring Back Our Girls for the study of transnational activism today. It presents the book's key findings and contributions to knowledge and theory, and discusses their implications for policy and further research, alongside recommendations for actualising these research and policy considerations. The chapter underlines the merits and centrality to theorising from the South of diversifying and decolonising the study of social movements in the choice of methods and methodologies, empirical cases, and epistemological inquiry. Policy recommendations include the importance of clear messaging and objectives by Global South activists that can be communicated and used to filter stakeholders and assess the relevance of offers of international support. The chapter also recommends further grounded research on how contemporary transnational activism is functioning in different contexts, specifically those that are militarised, because they have particular implications for the safety and security of women and girls.
