Brian Rowan is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He was the BBC security editor until 2005, and reported on the major developments in the transition from conflict to peace. He has written several books on that process, including Behind the Lines: Story of the IRA and Loyalist Ceasefires (1995), How the Peace Was Won (2008), and Unfinished Peace: Thoughts on Northern Ireland's Unanswered Past (2015). He has been a category winner in the Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year awards four times, including twice as specialist journalist.