With international figures flying into the Basque Country for talks, there is an increasing expectation that a decisive statement from the Eta terror group is imminent.
Eta terror campaigns have claimed more than 800 lives since the 1960s but according to Liverpool John Moores University expert its leaders look set to renounce violence.
In the last two years Eta cells have targeted popular tourist destinations on the Mediterranean coast, killing and maiming a number of Spanish police officers.
But LJMU terrorism studies expert, Dr David Lowe, believes that Eta has been weakened by a series of arrests.
And in our interview, courtesy of Bay TV Liverpool, Dr Lowe says there are strong signs are that its remaining leaders will seek a purely political solution.
Former UN chief Kofi Annan will be among senior statesmen attending a conference on Basque separatism, seen as a possible prelude to the dissolution of Eta terror cells.
Liverpool John Moores University expert in the study of terrorism, Dr David Lowe, believes there are strong signs are that Eta will seek a purely political solution.
In his research Dr Lowe has considered how the Eta developments resonate with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the armed conflict in Northern Ireland.
Dr Lowe, studies Terrorism, Policing, Transnational Crime and Human Rights. His interest and expertise emanates from his previous occupation as a police officer with Merseyside Police, where he worked for 25 years.
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