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Witness History: The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group

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The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group

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The female negotiator who agreed a deal with Muslim rebels in the Philippines.

The Filippino government peace negotiator who agreed a deal with Muslim rebels fighting an insurgency in the southern Mindanao region.

In January 2014 after decades of violent struggle, a peace deal was agreed in the Philippines between a Muslim separatist organisation and the government. The deal granted largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater autonomy in exchange for an end to armed rebellion. Farhana Haider has been speaking to the government's chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer about the difficulties posed by being a woman negotiating with a Muslim rebel group.

(Photo: MILF peace panel chief Mohagher Iqbal  hands over signed documents with Government of the Philippines Peace Panel Chief Negotiator Miriam Coronel Ferrer  27 March, 2014. Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

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