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Former UN Negotiator - Giandomenico Picco

Former UN Negotiator - Giandomenico Picco

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Is force the only possible response to violent forms of militancy?

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Is there a new brand of violent extremism that is identifiably
different from all forms of militancy that have gone before? The
question is prompted by the shocking and self-publicised
brutality of the group calling itself Islamic State. Boko Haram
in Nigeria deserves mention in the same breath. These groups
provoke worldwide revulsion, but is force the only possible
response? Hardtalk speaks to Giandomenico Picco, the former UN
envoy who risked his life to negotiate the release of western
hostages in Lebanon.

(Photo: Giandomenico Picco. BBC copyright)