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| Chatham House - famed for its' rules. |
This week I also went to Chatham House (my first time there) to see a Documentary project that a friend who I used to work with in France had edited. The programme was about ‘Extremism in former Soviet states’ and there were lots of academic people there to discuss it.
For some subjects TV is not always the best/easiest medium to use to present a phenomena and I feel that there are a multitude of elements involved in how and why people are 'radicalised' - much is about the conditions that minorities struggle with and it seems often there's a link between a feeling of being marginalised or 'on the fringes'.
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| Noah Tucker -Senior Editor |
Little in the programme showed (save for the pictures) of how dramatic the change in fortunes for the area since the end of the Soviet rule.
After the session I was I must say I was surprised at how dominated the area was in fact by the Muslim faith although many in the documentary described themselves as moderate (many people living in the area drink alcohol for example)-
Here is quite a useful piece that does supply some history to a problem that is also apparent in Russia and it also helps us understand why a US funded broadcaster might choose to pay some attention to the issue (some US terrorists have roots in Uzbekistan)
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| Introducing the topic |
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