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The Art of Hostage Negotiation: Prolonging, Gathering Information, and Ensuring Safety
TLDR Hostage negotiators aim to prolong the situation, gather information about the hostage taker's demands, and keep everything calm to ensure the safety of the hostages and increase the chances of a peaceful resolution. They also use tactics like the Stockholm syndrome and good cop/bad cop to establish rapport with hostage takers and try to understand their perspective.
Timestamped Summary
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Hostage negotiation involves a hostage taker wanting something in exchange for the release of the hostages, usually as a bargaining chip with symbolic value.
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Hostage negotiation involves three phases: the initial phase of panic and violence, the negotiation phase where law enforcement gets involved, and the final phase where the hostage takers either surrender, are arrested, or their demands are granted.
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Hostage negotiators try to prolong the situation and gather as much information as possible about the hostage taker in order to deescalate the situation and ensure a peaceful resolution.
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Hostage negotiators aim to prolong the situation, gather information about the hostage taker's demands, and keep everything calm to ensure the safety of the hostages and increase the chances of a peaceful resolution.
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One of the goals of a hostage negotiator is to get the hostage taker and hostages to interact and work together, which humanizes the hostages and increases the chances of a peaceful resolution.
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Countries like the United States, Russia, and Israel have a non-negotiating policy with hostage takers, while France had the opposite approach and became a target for hostage taking.
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In a hostage situation at Prince's Gate in London in 1980, the hostage negotiator successfully kept the hostage takers focused on details and managed to get the release of two ill hostages, while the SAS stormed the building and only one other hostage was lost.
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Hostage negotiators sometimes use tactics like the Stockholm syndrome and good cop/bad cop to establish rapport with hostage takers and try to understand their perspective.
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