When should we talk to terrorists? / Audrey Kurth Cronin.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Cronin, Audrey Kurth, 1958-

Contributor:

United States Institute of Peace

Series:

Special report (United States Institute of Peace) ; 240.

Special report ; 240

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qaida (Organization).

Taliban.

Negotiation.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

International relations and terrorism--United States.

International relations and terrorism.

Terrorism--United States.

Terrorism.

negotiation.

negotiating.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : U.S. Institute of Peace, [2010]

Summary:

This report explains the conditions under which governments might promisingly negotiate with terrorist groups so as to end their violence. It is drawn from a larger United States Institute of Peace-supported multiyear research project on how terrorist campaigns meet their demise. Based on qualitative and quantitative research that explores the lessons of negotiations with terrorist groups and analyzes other potential pathways for a group's decline, including decapitation, repression, reorientation, and implosion, the conclusions herein offer general guidance to policymakers who must decide whether to enter talks with a given terrorist group. The report applies those lessons specifically to the current debate over negotiating with "al-Qaeda" and "the Taliban."

Contents:

Overview of findings about negotiations

Promising and unpromising conditions : lessons for policymakers

Relevance to "al-Qaeda" and "the Taliban"

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on June 7, 2010).

"May 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (page 15).

Other Format:

Print version: Cronin, Audrey Kurth, 1958- When should we talk to terrorists?

OCLC:

638960115