2019 Hostage negotiation with exercises

A three-day full-immersion course in hostage negotiation including exercises and simulations, in which the theme of hostage negotiation and of operational negotiation in various scenarios will be addressed.

A practical and operational course whose purpose is to teach, through new applied methodologies, negotiation in the event of hostage-taking, how to behave in the event of a kidnapping and how to manage its phases; to understand and analyse the behaviour of the human being when held hostage for short or long periods, and strategic and intelligence management in hostage negotiation.

This is the only course in Italy in the field of applied strategic negotiation with a specific focus on possible terrorist attacks that may take place in environments frequented by large numbers of people, such as theatres, supermarkets, railway stations, maritime stations, etc... as well as on hostage situations involving barricades and on hostage-taking carried out by non-criminal individuals as well.

The course is taught by personnel of the Special Forces, by personnel working at international level and by personnel who already lecture on the subject at international level, assisted by medical personnel.

(venue being confirmed), November 2019

programme:

• Operational negotiation
• Negotiation: the types
• The figures in a kidnapping: the hostages, the offender, the negotiator
• The release: innovative techniques and methodologies

Victimology: basic behaviour models; the victim’s identification with the aggressors; the pathologies induced in hostages; the pathologies the negotiator faces

Scenario and context

Kidnapping in an urban setting

Terrorist kidnapping: know your terrorist; the kidnapping manual of Al-Qaida, ISIS and other terrorist organisations

Kidnapping for the purpose of extortion: dynamics and structure of extortive kidnapping

Kidnapping in a crisis or conflict scenario

Emergency and crisis

Terrorism: the behaviour of the terrorist; exploitation of the media; preparation and support; future trends of terrorism

The task of negotiation

The negotiation team and its characteristics

Human communication: its strategic use; the impossibility of not communicating; the communicative levels of content and relationship; the punctuation of the sequence of events; digital and analogue communication; complementary and symmetrical interaction; the concept of system; the paradox and the double bind; operational problem solving

Techniques of persuasive communication

Operational negotiation

Cross-cultural

Operational exercises and simulations

EUR 280.00 Ecole Universitaire Internationale students (who have attended even a single seminar)

Admission to the course is subject to assessment of the candidate’s C.V./notes, and a possible interview.

The C.V. together with the application for admission to the course must be sent to the following e-mail address: [email protected].

For those who have already attended École Universitaire Internationale courses, it is enough to send an e-mail stating that you wish to take part in the course.

To complete enrolment the candidate must provide a medical certificate for non-competitive activity.

A diploma will be awarded. For those interested, a final assessed examination is available.

Contacts

E-mail: [email protected]

Tel: 371.1836404