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Giandomenico Picco - Former UN Negotiator

20/10/2014 GMT

Former UN Negotiator - Giandomenico Picco

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

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)

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