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The Real Story: What Does it Take to Make Peace?

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What Does it Take to Make Peace?

06/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Real Story, What Does it Take to Make Peace?

Why is it so hard to resolve conflicts and what makes an effective peace-maker?

As this year's Nobel Peace Prize is announced we ask, why is it so hard to resolve conflicts and what makes an effective peace-maker?

We live in dangerous times.  Conflicts in the Middle East continue unabated; President Trump threatens to "totally destroy" North Korea; and Catalonia opts to secede from Spain with potentially violent consequences.  UN Secretary General, António Guterres recently said “We are in a world in pieces. We need to be a world at peace”.  So why is it so hard to resolve conflicts and what makes an effective peace-maker? On Newshour Extra this week, Owen Bennett Jones and his guests discuss the art of conflict resolution and the people who make it possible.

Photo:  Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin display their Nobel Peace Prizes December 10, 1994 in Oslo, Norway. Credit: Getty Images

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