TY  - BOOK
AU  - DOLNIK Adam
TI  - Negotiating the impossible?: the Beslan hostage crisis 
SN  - 1750-9432
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - RUSI
KW  - BESLAN SCHOOL
KW  - TERRORIST ATTACK
KW  - BARRICADE HOSTAGE TAKING
KW  - TERRORISM
KW  - HOSTAGES
N2  - Based on interviews, primary documents, and open source materials in several languages this report considers the Beslan school hostage crisis. As well as providing background to the event  (including a chronology) and to its mastermind Shamil Basayev, the papers main concerns are with the negotiation process, the reasons for its failure and the identification of  practical lessons. Concludes a) that barricade hostage taking by terrorist groups is likely to occur again, b) that the hostage takers have specific objectives, c) that there is some scope for successful negotiations, and d) that governments should not cover up the outcomes of such events in subsequent reports
ER  -