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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. Adapted from the source document.

Investigatges police culture among Chicago (IL) Police Dept hostage negotiators & SWAT (Special Weapons & Tactics) team members, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork including observation & interviews. Hostage negotiators are presented with the difficult task of containing inflamed situations, reducing the danger to police & bystanders, preventing media contamination of the event, & convincing the hostage taker to surrender. These goals are achieved in a complicated process of changing the hostage taker's motive so that the drama is redirected away from tragedy. Since hostage takers exclude themselves from society, it is up to the negotiator to convince these individuals to reenter by identifying themselves with the society. This is made more difficult because many hostage takers are intent on playing out predetermined narratives they have consumed from the mass media. Success is achieved by making human contact with hostage takers, establishing a common ground, & offering them a pathway out of the media-dictated model of impasse. D. Ryfe

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