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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
The Other Extreme: Resisting Radicalisation
Sometimes you work on a story that keeps coming to mind as news unfolds. "Resisting Radicalisation" is one such story. Ever since I commissioned it for a magazine I worked on last year, alarming headlines have drawn my thoughts back to it. At the time, the Paris attacks had just happened and people were desperate for answers: how can we stop this from happening again? Sadly, 2017 has seen more brutal terrorism acts, with two in my home city of London in the past two weeks.
In light of all this horror, I do try to draw my attention to the many individuals and organisations out there trying to tackle the issue around the world. This story features a politics professor, a behavioural scientist, a youth organisation, a think tank and an online network made up of both former extremists and survivors, all working to reverse extremism.
The article also does well in highlighting that terrorism’s causes are complicated and interconnected, and how political, social and environmental influences from the Middle East to the US and Europe play a role, beyond religion.
I’m sad to think that there will be more days when I’ll wake up to news events that make this article relevant again. But I do believe some of the issues raised here will remain crucial if we’re ever going to tackle radicalisation.
