Bøger af Adam Dolnik

While there are many trained crisis negotiators, almost none of them has ever had contact with a terrorist hostage-taking incident. This work presents a reconstruction and analysis of the two most high-profile cases, the Moscow theater and the Beslan school hostage crises, with the purpose of drawing lessons for hostage negotiation strategies.

Understanding the Lord''s Resistance Army Insurgency (LRA) provides a concise overview of the LRA, which has, for almost 30 years, conducted untold atrocities across the central African nations of Uganda, Southern Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. The book examines the LRA''s emergence and evolution, the ideology, strategy and tactics behind it, motivational aspects of its recruitment, its engagement in peace processes, and a detailed description of leadership and group dynamics. This work is based on a wide range of written sources and extensive interviews with individuals intimately related to the group including top LRA commanders, government sources, victims, child soldiers, abductees and wives of Joseph Kony. Moving past stories of unimaginable brutality, forced recruitment, and the group''s mystical belief system, the book provides a well-grounded analysis of the different stages of the LRA''s development. It demonstrates how the group represents an obscure case study that challenges many of the common assumptions about the operational dynamics of terrorist organizations.Written to fill a gap in academia in relation to African- and Christian-based terrorism, this book is suited to students, researchers and practitioners in political sciences, war, conflict and terrorism studies, African politics and international relations and development.

Using the 2007 siege of the Lal Masjid in Pakistan, the book outlines important lessons and practical guidelines for crisis negotiators, incident commanders, and political decision makers, in order to highlight tools necessary to manage possible similar crises in the future more effectively.