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'Families want me to negotiate with IS, but I cannot'

20/10/2014 GMT

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Stephen Sackur speaks to Giandomenico Picco, the former UN negotiator.

Stephen Sackur discusses the threat of violent extremism with Giandomenico Picco, the former UN envoy who risked his life to negotiate the release of western hostages in Lebanon.

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. 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.

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