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Please read the rules before joining the discussion. People attend a rally calling on the Government to rescue the school girls kidnapped from the Chibok Government secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday May 10, 2014. Many nations, including Saudi Arabia, give financial assistance to grooms as a national security strategy. Christina Asquith, editorial director of Across Women’s Lives, spoke with one of the article’s authors, Dr.

M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service. Christina Asquith: How did you catch on to this idea that bride prices might be connected to national security? Valerie Hudson: As soon as we began looking for little examples of bride prices as a destabilizing factor, it was everywhere. But we in the West don’t have the data. Well, my father wanted me to join so my brothers and I could get married.