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Last broadcast on Mon, 30 Nov 2009, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Andrew Marr explores how terrorism ends with strategist Audrey Kurth Cronin and police chief Sir Hugh Orde. Eugene Rogan charts the history of the Arabs, from the Ottoman Empire to the rise of Arab nationalism and the conflict between secular and Islamic values. Documentary maker Sarah Wood explains why she wanted to recreate the missing Palestinian Archive.
AUDREY KURTH CRONIN
Audrey Kurth Cronin is an academic specialising in the art of terror. As a Professor at the National War College in Washington DC she’s been studying terrorist groups - not what causes them to start, but what brings them to an end. She looks at where Al-Qaeda are most vulnerable and how their campaign might falter.
How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns is published by Princeton University Press.
SIR HUGH ORDE
Sir Hugh Orde is President of the Association of Chief Police Officers. For seven years he was Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, responsible for reforming the police service. During this time he faced the unprecedented task of tackling thousands of unsolved murders, stretching back over thirty years. Sir Hugh set up the historical enquiries team to re-examine every unsolved murder and attempt to bring some closure to the victims’ families. He talks about how this solution can help victims of crime and could provide a model for reconciliation in other communities with a history of sectarian violence.
Sir Hugh will give the 2009 Longford Lecture on Wednesday 2 December at 6.30pm at Church House, Westminster, London.
EUGENE ROGAN
“It’s not pleasant being Arab these days…feelings of persecution for some, self-hatred for others; a deep disquiet pervades the Arab world. Yet the Arab world hasn’t always suffered such a ‘malaise’.” So wrote the Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir shortly before he was assassinated in 2005. In Eugene Rogan’s history of the Arabs from the Ottoman Empire to modern times, he charts the origins of this “malaise”. It’s a history dominated by exploitation and imperialism; of broken promises and failed unions. From Morocco to Egypt to Iraq and the Persian States, the Arab world shares a common identity grounded in language and history, but also resounds with a rich diversity.
The Arabs: A History is published by Allen Lane.
SARAH WOOD
In her short film, For Cultural Purposes Only, film maker Sarah Wood goes in search of the missing Palestinian Film Archive. The majority of the films from the archive were lost in the early 1980s and Sarah uses the few remaining films and recollections of the missing footage to reconstruct the archive. The film explores what is lost when images of the place we are from disappear and the effort involved in reclaiming a lost legacy.
For Cultural Purposes Only is on Channel 4's website 4OD during November and at Tate Modern on 3 December.
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Mon 30 Nov 200909:00
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Mon 30 Nov 200921:30
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