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Hostage negotiations training course

Description

The four-day training focused on definitions of terrorism and types of hostage takers and addressed different phases of negotiations, including understanding the situation and information gathering.

Summary

The course addressed principles, models and tools of negotiations, as well as hostage incidents, framing theory and negotiation techniques.Practical exercises enabled participants to train their crisis management, hostage negotiations and decision making skills.

Material included:

  • Negotiation
  • Command Post
  • What is a Crisis?
  • Decision Making Activity 1
  • Decision Making Activity 2
  • Framing Theory
  • Hostage Incidents
  • Negotiating Models
  • Negotiation Philosophy
  • Negotiation Team
  • Negotiation Tools
  • Negotiation as Counter-terrorism
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