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World Service,14 Jun 1999,4 mins

Conflict Resolution

My Century

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Giandomenico Picco was a UN diplomat dealing with conflict resolution. In Lebanon he was involved in efforts to release Western hostages during the 1980s. In order to gain the trust of the kidnappers, he agreed to be abducted himself, nine times.

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