[Opening music]
>>male Narrator: We have more than eighty formers and survivors from nineteen different
countries from six different continents.
We've never seen this mixture of people all coming together in one place.
>>male #1: I had assumed ideally that all that mattered was the color of my skin.
>>male #2: At sixteen years old and joined and extremist organization that aims to overthrow
governments via military coups.
>>male #3: I've never really been in a room before with so many former extremists and
survivors.
I think that's a very powerful combination.
>>male #4: It's our responsibility in duty to teach these kids the truth.
>>woman #1: I'm living the effects of violent extremism.
>>male #5: Until you talk about it, you cannot overcome it.
>>woman #2: What we're doing here now is a much needed first step.
>>male #6: A lot will depend on whether people as they leave do something.
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>>Yasmin Dolatabadi: SAVE really was an experiment that for us at Google Ideas.
We had just started as a team and no one knew what was going to happen.
No one had ever tried to get this diversity of people together in one place before.
>>Sammy Rangel: As we are sitting at the table, it hits me that Carrie has lost her mother
in the 9-1-1 attacks.
Her mom was on the first plane that hit the towers.
Sitting next to an I.R.A.
bomber.
Having lunch, the enormity of that hit me.
>>Jo Berry: The more we can empathize with each other and understand that your story
can be my story, we can begin to heal some of the riffs and conflicts that we have between
each other.
>>Arno Michaels: Leaving the summit, it was as important to each one of us that we keep
that feeling going.
>>Yasmin Mulbocus: There was something that was in the right timing that we've got to
start our work now.
We all have to start our projects together.
>>Sammy Rangel: Before we left Ireland at SAVE, three programs were created, developed,
and funded before we even all got back on the plane.
This is about action; it's not about talking.
>>Yasmin Mulbocus: We might have issues around racial hatred so I might contact someone like
Angelo or Arno, or I might have gang issues as well and contact Sammy or Susan, and say
what are your thoughts or how have you tackled this problem?
>>Sasha Havlicek: Now comes the time for us to tool up this extraordinary group of people
and grow the network in a way that it can have real impact on the ground.
>>Jo Berry: We can talk to governments.
We can talk to people who have got power.
We can create more projects and the beauty of it is no one can say to us they don't know,
we don't know what it feels like because we do.
>>Sasha Havlicek: It's been exciting because just in the last few months we've seen a couple
of organizations working on the frontline of capturing extremism, come to us and say
we'd really like to link up with organizations working on a different form of extremism to
learn their lessons.
And we've seen the private sector come and say to us we've got resources, not just money,
but expertise that we would like to put on offer to people working on this.
>>Yasmin Dolatabadi: I'd like to see in the coming years, that every single nonprofit
practitioner, academic, NGO, everyone in the space of combating violence extremism across
every ideology be connected through this web platform and for us to have representation
of every single project type and for this to be the de facto place to go to get connected
and get results.
>>Arno Michaels: The more examples we have of positive change the more examples we have
of forgiveness and compassion, the farther and wider this message can be broadcast.