Famous Negotiations
The Waco, Texas Siege, also known as the Waco Massacre, had 49 days of negotiations in hope of a peaceful resolution before law enforcement breached the compound belonging to this religious sect.
Branch Davidians
Increasingly aggressive techniques such as sleep deprivation by playing loud broadcasts and pop music were used.
Words such as ok, uh-huh, oh, etc. are examples of this.
Minimal Encouragers
This movie centers on a man whose nine-year-old son is in desperate need of a life-saving transplant.
John Q.
This response is triggered by the release of hormones that prepare your body to either stay and deal with a threat or to run away to safety.
Flight or Fight Response
This is the primary objective during a hostage situation.
Preservation of Life
This was the location of a 2004 attack in which more than 1100 people were taken as hostages at School Number One
Beslan
This attack occurred on 9/1, which is the traditional start to the Russian school year. Children were accompanied by their parents and other relatives to attend a ceremony hosted by their school.
In total, 334 people died. During negotiations, the hostage takers denied any food or water deliveries, which may have added to the death toll as hostages were too weak to flee from danger when the school was under siege.
This element must be present for the negotiator to influence change over the subject.
Rapport
NYPD cop John McClane goes to Nakatomi headquarters for a Christmas party, which is interrupted after a group led by Hans Gruber takes control of the building and holds everyone hostage.
Die Hard
This type of health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Mental
A tactical decision to temporarily or permanently withdraw from a situation, either to de-escalate a situation or to regroup and reassess before re-engaging.
Disengagement
This prison was made famous in 1979 after prisoners took over this New York City Prison, changing how hostage negotiation was viewed and applied.
Attica Prison
It involves restating the content of what the subject said in the negotiator's own words.
Paraphrasing
After taking the crew and Captain hostage, the African pirates planned to ransom the ship for millions in shipping insurance money.
Captain Phillips
This health condition involves changes in emotion, thinking, and/or behavior that causes frequent stress and affects your ability to function.
Mental Illness
When given a deadline, you should do this.
This Ohio prison was the site of an 11 day riot in 1993, enduing with the death of one corrections officer and nine inmates.
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility aka Lucasville
Notably, Dayton HNT members responded to the facility to assist with negotiations.
When using ALS, this is more important than any phrase you could say.
Tone of voice
Danny Roman is the city's top negotiator - until he's framed for murder and embezzlement.
This is a phase of drug withdrawal that involves deterioration in mood and energy that occurs when a psychoactive drug such as a stimulant clears from the bloodstream.
Crashing or Comedown
Background noise, where they are positioned in the building, if they are alone or have other people, accessible weapons, mental status, and intention are all examples of this.
Intelligence
This 444 day crisis was the longest hostage situation in history.
Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4, 1979 in Iran, Iranian students seized the US embassy and detained more than 50 Americans as hostages for 444 days.
The second step of the ALS Stairway demonstrates objectivity and willingness to try to understand.
Empathy
Based upon a real-life incident which occurred in August 1972, this movie tells the story of a bank held hostage by Sonny, a veteran turned bank robber determined to steal enough money for an elective surgery.
A Dog Day Afternoon
About 50% of people in the US that experience this issue also suffer from mental illness.
Substance Use/Dependence
Unsatisfied needs, fear of losing face, not vested in the solution, not yet ready for agreement, sense of being misunderstood or mistreated, and feeling aggrieved are examples of this.
Obstacles to building rapport