How to de-radicalise a community? Hi, I'm Jochnowicz, director of 'Cages In Search Of Birds' a feature-length YouTube documentary unearthing the processes behind extremism across a range of scales and examples, including the Jewish community in the UK and Israel. AMA
The documentary itself came about because I was tired of documentaries on extremism that only focused on one cause, or one process and I also wanted to look into how we might deradicalise both Britain and my Jewish diaspora community in the UK.
It became increasingly striking throughout the making of the film that there was a huge disparity between public and academic debates on the topic. I wanted to help try and plug that gap and 4 years or so later here we are!
To cover a wide range of bases, the film digs deep into processes of radicalisation from individual scale through to societal, alongside misconceptions around social media (spoiler: it probably isn't to blame for radicalisation), bad de-radicalisation programmes and even reconciliation.
Of course I did use examples and both the US and Israel feature as a dovetail when I look at societal scale radicalisation, but we also look at the UK, Sudan, the very definition of extremism itself, we discuss the war on terror with an Amnesty International policy lead and much more. There is also an epilogue call-to-action! I'd love to hear any questions people have and I will try my best to answer them!
