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- Title
Negotiating Hostages with Terrorists: Paradoxes and Dilemmas.
- Authors
Faure, Guy Olivier
- Abstract
There are few negotiations where it is so necessary to be fast and effective than in those that deal with hostages. This is an almost unfeasible task that has to be carried out with the most unlikely negotiator, the terrorist, in an extremely hostile context. Considering the issues at stake - the freedom of the hostages and, very often, their lives - a negotiator has to manage many challenges. There are seven dilemmas and paradoxes in reaching agreement. A negotiator has to solve a Shakespearian dilemma, manage contradictory objectives, deal with incompatible rationales, handle the toughness dilemma, come to grips with contradictions between empathy and assertiveness, handle cultural dilemmas, and cope with a moral dilemma.
- Subjects
HOSTAGE negotiations; TERRORISTS; ETHICAL problems; PARADOX; ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology); EMPATHY
- Publication
International Negotiation, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
1382-340X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15718069-12341301