We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages, and Ransom - Couverture souple

Simon, Joel

 
9780999745427: We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages, and Ransom
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ISBN 10 : 0999745425 ISBN 13 : 9780999745427
Editeur : Columbia Global Reports, 2019

Synopsis

A gripping exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists?


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?

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À propos de l?auteur

Joel Simon is a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and formerly the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Before joining CPJ, he worked as a journalist in Latin America and California. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Éditeur
Columbia Global Reports
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0999745425
ISBN 13 
9780999745427
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
189
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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