There is a difference with negotiations with the case I laid out above and negotiations with a prison escapee.
When negotiating with a prison escapee he is one person or maybe there is a handfull of people.
The intent of these negotiations like any would be to get the hostages released.
The expectation, in the case of the prison escapees, is that law enforcement will be able to catch them after the hostages have been removed from the situation.
This does not work the same in the case of the Taliban. They are already at war with them. Saying let's give them what they want to get the hostages free and then we will shoot at them again does not take care of the problem like re-capruting a prison escapee would.
Basically the prison escapee will likely not get away in the end but the Taliban will be in the same situation after and they will know that hostage taking is effective.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Thinking about it more, I wonder if radical organizations would be less radical if they were treated like human being with real problems.
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This is great for when you are not directly at war with them or they are not holding you hostages. In theory it is good.
How do you do this in practicality?
Then let's say you do it and you give them a chance and it does not work, they stay radical, how many times do you go down this path with them and with other organizations?