| Dr Adam Dolnik from the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, wh... Dr Adam Dolnik from the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, who has co-authored a book on negotiating with terrorists |
UOW terrorism expert’s new book
3 Dec 2007 | Nick Hartgerink
A new book co-authored by Australian-based expert on international terrorism Dr Adam Dolnik has been released to widespread critical acclaim.
Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists, by Dr Dolnik and Singapore-based colleague Keith Fitzgerald, explores the role of negotiation in resolving terrorist barricade hostage crises.
The book examines the lessons of past crises to see how future incidents can be better managed, while also considering what the terrorists are also learning that will affect the dynamics of future incidents.
Dr Dolnik, who is the director of research development at the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, is an international authority on terrorism. He travels widely to study terrorism in the world’s trouble spots, and was an observer at the Russian school hostage crisis in Breslan in 2004 involving Chechen rebels, that cost 331 lives.
Dr Dolnik has written a number of books on terrorism, including a study of the Breslan crisis and another published earlier this year that explored terrorist innovation in technologies and tactics.
Lt-Col Joe Felter, Director of the Centre for Combating Terrorism at the US Military Academy (West Point) describes this latest book as: “A path breaking contribution to this critical field. The authors' insights and prescriptions - informed by cutting edge negotiation theory and relevant hostage cases - will help save lives in future crises and enhance states' capacity to bring all their resources to the table when dealing with today's terrorists.
Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists is published by Praeger Security International. For more details see:
http://www.greenwood.com/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9748
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