Negotiating with Terrorists: Strategy, Tactics, and Politics

Guy Olivier Faure and I. William Zartman

Content

List of figures
List of tables
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
The PIN Program at the IIASA
Introduction: negotiating with terrorists – who holds whom hostage?
GUY OLIVIER FAURE AND I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN

PART I

How to negotiate: kidnapping the kidnappers
1. Guidelines for negotiating with terrorists
LAURENT COMBALBERT
2. Quantitative and qualitative aspects of kidnapping and hostage negotiating
ALEX P. SCHMID AND P. FLEMMING
3. Supping with the Devil
DAVID PINDER

PART II

Practical/tactical: freeing the hostages
4. Terrorist negotiation strategy in Lebanon
KAREN A. FESTE
5. Negotiating in Beslan and beyond
ADAM DOLNIK
6. Negotiating visible and hidden agendas
VICTOR KREMENYUK
7. Negotiating the grand swap in Kandahar
P. SAHADEVAN
8. Conclusion: lessons for action
GUY OLIVIER FAURE AND I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN
References
Index

Guy Olivier Faure and I. William Zartman Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution and former Director of the Conflict Management and African Studies Programs, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. He is author/editor of over 20 books on negotiation, conflict and mediation.

Guy Olivier Faure is Professor of Sociology at the Sorbonne University, Paris I, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. He has served as an advisor to French government on hostage negotiations.