Title: We Want to Negotiate Pdf The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom
Author: Joel Simon
Published Date: 2018-10-09
"A firm no-concessions policy that relies on meager evidence is inexcusable, he argues, when lives hang in the balance. We Want to Negotiate is a helpful, accessible contribution to a decades-old dilemma." -- Wall Street Journal"This excellent and careful book asks tough questions about whether and how governments should negotiate with kidnappers to get hostages released." -- Foreign Affairs< BR>“A wise and thorough investigation of the painful conundrum posed by terrorist kidnappings. Simon makes a cogent argument about how to change our current, failed approach to negotiation.” ~ Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and The Terror Years"Joel Simon has written an invaluable insider’s account of the how and the why of the shadowy business of ransom negotiation at the highest level. For anyone who has ever wondered why some governments negotiate for the release of their captured citizens– while others -including our own- do not, Simon’s book is essential reading. As head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Simon has seen the hostage crisis up close and this book reflects his intelligence, courage, and clear-eyed approach to this murky but, sadly, thriving business." ~ Kati Marton, Author, Journalist and former Board Chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists“This is an excellently researched and reasoned book on a terrible and complicated problem – what to do when someone is taken hostage. I hope all those who have had to face this awful dilemma will read it, and especially those who make and carry out government policy.” ~ Terry Anderson, Journalist, hostage in Lebanon for seven years“Joel Simon’s book about the dark world of kidnappers and their hostages is deeply reported, well written and well calibrated in its judgements. For anyone who wants to understand the many difficult questions raised by the kidnapping trade, Simon’s book will be the standard.”~ Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad: Who are America’s Homegrown Terrorists and How Do We Stop Them“In We Want to Negotiate, Joel Simon combines the breadth of his knowledge alongside stunning narratives to try to understand how the gruesome and murky trade of kidnapping really works. Simon’s international policy expertise and his compassion for his subjects – many of whom he knew and worked alongside – shine through to create a spellbinding, chilling and important read.” ~ Janine di Giovanni, Senior Fellow, the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, Yale University, and author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria"To Simon, who has worked for nearly 20 years at the Committee to Protect Journalists, the question is a matter not just of political will or moral philosophy but also of who lives and who dies....General readers will find the material enlightening, and those professionally involved will find it essential." --Publishers Weekly"A persuasive argument that deserves to be heard in Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, and other corridors of power."--Kirkus Review Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His book The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom was published by Columbia University Press in 2014. A graduate of Amherst College and Stanford University, he lives in New York City.
Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, first the Spanish, then the French, then an Italian, a German, and a Dane. In August 2014, the Islamic State began executing the Americans -- including journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, followed by the British hostages.
Joel Simon, who in nearly two decades at the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked on dozens of hostages cases, delves into the heated hostage policy debate. The Europeans paid millions of dollars to a terrorist group to free their hostages. The US and the UK refused to do so, arguing that any ransom would be used to fuel terrorism and would make the crime more attractive, increasing the risk to their citizens. We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists?
A thoughtful, compelling read Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, writes with clarity and compassion about behind-the-scenes decisions that can determine whether a kidnapped individual lives or dies. His research and arguments about official policies on ransom negotiations when someone is taken hostage make it clear that a government's refusal to negotiate with terrorists and/or kidnappers does not work as a preventive measure. Simon takes the reader behind the scenes to meet with journalists who have survived their ordeals as hostages and their families. The stories from those whose loved ones did not make it our alive will break your heart.For anyone interested in the subject, well worth the read. When I first read the author’s background I feared the book would be yet another typical offering that reflected a journalist’s biases and own social agenda rather than a simple statement of the facts. I was therefore pleasantly surprised that most of the book was a clear-eyed view of a complex and controversial subject. The policies and practices of various actors from governments to individual family members were described in enough detail to give a good overview of the present state of affairs regarding kidnapping for its many reasons. The one thing that I expected to be at least mentioned by some of those called upon to rescue kidnapping victims, however, was the question of why they thoughtlessly put themselves in a position to be taken hostage in the first place. For spies and diplomats I understand; for aid workers and journalists, not so much; for “adventure tourists” (as the book calls them), going into known danger zones and then expecting the resources of a national government to rescue them from their folly is unfathomable. Mountain search and rescue volunteers will grumble about having to find a hiker who was totally unprepared for the weather and the possibility his phone GPS dying, but no one expresses an opinion about a journalist who was kidnapped and then went back to the same danger area?In any event, I found the book informative enough that I will be giving it to a military special operations officer of my acquaintance.Insightful read on hostage negotiation regarding journalism I was curious about this book. Have you watched the TV Series "Ransom?" If you haven't, well, google it after you're done reading this because with that in mind, reading this was insightful. Over the years, I've watched on international news outlets calls for the release of journalists or Aid workers who were kidnapped in turbulent areas and I never fully grasped the stress, anxiety, negotiations and trauma that surrounds it.In this book, the author explores the roles of governments and media houses in such cases and not all the stories have happy endings which ultimately broke my heart.I liked how he presented the stories on both sides. Thanks for the eARC Netgalley, this book would be a great conversation on policies that affect international news coverage and politics whilst protecting reporters.
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