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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"hostage"”.
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Hostage
<p>A collection of short stories.</p>
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Terrorist Kidnappings for Ransom: Explaining Hostage Outcomes
… American psyche. In an effort to understand why hostages are released or killed in situations where a ransom is asked, we attempt to isolate and test key variables using a binary logistic regression. Our results show that paying a ransom significantly decreases the likelihood that a hostage will …
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Hostage and Barricade Incidents: A Profiling Perspective
… project that profiles the perpetrators of hostage and barricade incidents. This research is conducted using a questionnaire that is completed at incident conclusion. The questionnaire was provide .. by the FBI as part of a project called HOB AS (Hostage, Barricade, and Suicide). The HOBAS …
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The analysis of hostage negotiation through a novel
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1982.
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The Iranian hostage crisis decision-makers : victims of groupthink?
… process which occurred during the Iranian Hostage Crisis form the bulk of the research. Also incorporated in this study are first-person writings and recollections from other individuals who were key to the decision-making process, as well as information drawn from the memoirs of the key …
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Effect of Negotiator Active Listening Skills on Crisis (Hostage) Negotiations
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of active listening skills on perpetrator response style in crisis negotiations. The extant literature boasts the utility of negotiations in crisis situations for law enforcement that came about in response to cataclysmic events such as the …
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New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) : a hostage to conditionality?
The paper evaluates the validity of the widespread notion that one of the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) - to establish democracy continent-wide in Africa - will be undermined by conditionalities attached to donor assistance. Conditionality is said by critics to …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
The voluminous works of the Judaean historian Flavius Josephus have been and continue to be of tremendous importance for our understanding of the worlds in which he lived. For centuries his works have been thoroughly investigated by scholars in diverse fields. Until more recently, however, the …
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Toward Successful Negotiation Strategies in Hostage-Ttaking Situations: Case Study Approach and Future Recommendations
In the last four decades, hostage situations have rapidly increased in the world due to the threat of terrorism and other social problems. The goals of hostage takers are to achieve certain political, criminal, and/or social benefits through hostage situations. It is not only a police problem but …
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Penyanderaan (gijzeling) terhadap wajib pajak pribadi yang tidak kooperatif: Perspektif UU nomor 19 tahun 2000 jo UU nomor 19 tahun 1997 tentang penagihan pajak dengan surat paksa dan hukum Islam
… uncooperative taxpayer. One way is to apply an hostage as stipulated in Law No. 19 of 1997 about Tax Billing with Forced Letter as amended by Act No. 19 of 2000. In this study, there are two formulations of the problem, they are: 1) How is the concept of hostage to uncooperative personal …
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Exploring the trust relationship between police incident commanders and their tactical advisors: a qualitative study relative to crisis and hostage negotiators coordinators
… and their Tactical Advisors. Specifically, a hostage and crisis Negotiator Coordinator during operational deployments at policing incidents. Trust was researched by conducting qualitative semi structured interviews of currently serving Negotiator Coordinators and retired senior Police …
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Tome : a chamber opera in one act
… Sawyer is thrown into a fugue-state, taking a hostage at gunpoint and forcing Laura to choose between helping him escape, and betraying him to the police. The conflict between Laura’s compassion for Sawyer and her ethical obligations form the main source of drama in the story. Tome occupies the …
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THE IRANIAN MARITIME CHALLENGE
… shipping during the Tanker War, the brief hostage-taking of U.S. Sailors near Farsi Island, and the repeated use of harassment tactics and sabotage operations. Through those cases studies, a broader assessment is made regarding the degree of Iran’s ability to use its capabilities to close …
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From the killing fields to a field of hope: the portrait of a teacher's dream
… have been done in Cambodia, a country held hostage by the murderous Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Still struggling to recover from these atrocities, Cambodia looks to education to aid in its redevelopment. This ethnographically-informed case study describes the professional literacy life of a …
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Three Essays In The Sociology Of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, And Emotional Interventions In De-Escalation
… I analyze how the school bookkeeper, acting as hostage and negotiator, convinced the gunman to surrender. The turning point resulted from two emotional processes, one bolstering thebookkeeper, the other exhausting the gunman. These processes created an opening for processes of deliberation, …
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Enhancing ISP-consumer security notifications
… holds data on personal and commercial systems hostage. Many of these threats are relatively opaque for an end user. An end user may not know that their smart device is participating in a DoS attack at all, unless they notice a protracted slowdown in network speeds. An upstream network provider …
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Legal responses to international terrorism : current framework under Maltese law.
… international protection, and the practice of hostage taking by terrorist are discussed. It emerges that domestic legislation against such conduct, is inadequate. Finally, the immigration system, controls on the issuance of identity cards and travel documents and measures preventing their …
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The Expanding Rol of the President as Commander-In-Chief Since World War II
… 1975 and President Carter's approach to the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 illustrate the presidency in the post-War Powers Act environment. Both men gave lip service to the law, but basically continued to act as presidents before them had done.</p> <p>President Reagan's leadership in invading …
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Indo-Pakistani conflict and development of South Asia: is an independent Kashmir State a possible consideration?
… with potential for huge benefits to be held hostage to the Kashmir crisis. In terms of the level of economic development, India holds big advantage. This advantage is harnessed into a superior conventional military capability which has also enabled India to rule out first strike as its …
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