SUMMARY
This chapter approaches the process of conflict resolution with terrorists from a language frame perspective, focusing both on the kinds of relational challenges and the paradoxes that they present.
These challenges are best addressed by using a process capable of first working through relational issues and then dealing with substantive issues. The terrorist profile that presents the most difficult challenge in working through this process involves religious fundamentalist groups who are very identity-driven and fixated on power and single issues. Developing a relationship with these kinds of individuals requires listening to the language that the terrorists are using to conceptualize their plight. Once a relationship begins to develop, then the negotiation team can start to move toward managing the issues and resolving the situation. The contrast between the Israeli negotiations with the Palestinians in the Church of Nativity and the Russian negotiations with the Chechens in the Moscow theater illustrates how a failure to manage the process and develop a functional relationship can cost lives. Negotiating in a crisis situation is never an easy task, but it is important to think strategically through a model and this chapter seeks to provide that option while also addressing the more global issues of how to manage terrorism more broadly.
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