Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James

Rogers and if it's your first time here well where have you been each week twice a

week we bring you brand new cutting-edge military histories with world leading experts and we're marking an

important anniversary this week. It's important in the history of the United

Kingdom, the history of terrorism and counter-terrorism and

and arguably the history of war and peace.

It was this week on December 2nd 1999

that the Good Friday Agreement was implemented.

An agreement that brought a political end to most of the violence of the Troubles,

a conflict in Northern Ireland that spilled across Britain that had ensued since the 1960s.

Northern Ireland's present-day devolved system of government is based on the Good Friday Agreement,

as was its demilitarized and increasingly open borders, much of which has come under discussion again with the implementation of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

So it seems like the ideal time for us to revisit this history and explore how we got to where we are today.

To talk us through this we have Counterterrorism Expert Tom Parker on the podcast.

Tom is an experienced Counterterrorism Expert. He was blown up by the IRA in the 1990s.

Joined MI5 not long after that and was involved in the investigation into the provisional's

bombing of Bishopgate in 1993.

He later became a war crimes investigator in Bosnia.

He then went on to work with the Office of the National Security Advisor in Baghdad, Iraq during the Iraq war,

and today he works for the United Nations.

He's just authored a new book called Avoiding the Terrorist Trap, why respect for human rights is the key to

defeating terrorism.

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