Should governments negotiate with terrorists?

by Tucker Lieberman

When a person is abducted and held hostage for ransom, or when a building or entire region is threatened with destruction, it can be tempting for would-be heroes to negotiate with the terrorists and comply with their deman...read more

by Gerard MP

The majority of the world go to work and earn money to pay for their lifestyle, the week to most of us require getting up early and home late, at the weekend we pay for our entertainment as do people of different faiths an...read more

by Michael Austin

There is a primary change in the definition of terrorists that has occurred over the last ten years. Prior the first Gulf War, nearly all terrorist organizations were fanatical outcasts that performed their grisly murders ...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

I think that a State mustn't negotiate with terrorists, for not giving a political legitimation to them and to what they are doing. In certain circumstances, when terrorists are holding many hostages and it's not possibl...read more

by Michael Feek

No government should negotiate with terrorists. Terrorists only see their own agenda so negotiations do little to resolve the issue. THe terrorists demand that their aims are the only ones that are important enough to be s...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

First asking two questions who gets the most from peace and who gets the most out of war? Man is never finding truth by killing its sources [or] is it not the TRUTH these and all wars are created / fought for?! We i...read more

by Ted Sherman

Of course you negotiate with terrorists. Their motives are to frighten, intimidate and too often, murder for a cause. If they demand negotiations, it means you have time to work on the situation. Therefore, anything you c...read more

by Durga Krishnan

Would you like to live in the jungles, have no rights to go to the hospital when you're sick or be able to send your child to school? Would you like to run everytime you see someone in uniform or never go out anywhere beca...read more

by James Ruhnke

Sure, why not? When you think about it, what happens when 3 armed terrorists hijack an airliner? The first thing we do is try to start some sort of negotiation because we want to save the lives of the passengers and cre...read more

by leiamra

By Military definition terrorist is an individual who uses violence, terror, and intimidation to achieve a result. So if you are a student and have nothing to do with politics, and the thing that cross your mind first...read more

by suntzusays

Legitimate governments claim the exclusive right for the application of force or violence for the achievement of a goal. For example, an agent of the government, be it a local police officer or a military soldier is ge...read more

by Jacob Zimmerman

should governments negotiate with terrorists? This a question that many of debated. if you're a family member of someone that has been taken hostage you're opinion is probably yes they should, but if your the government tr...read more

by ISLA aka AMAN

How good it would have been when everybody could get what everybody wanted isn't it? It would mean no conflicts. Seems very exciting but, this is one thing we all know could never happen. Life doesn't seem to go ahead with...read more

by Chris O'Connor

"...Of course; The Only Road to Understanding Is The Argument Of Force." If we negotiated with people in the first place we would not make 'terrorists' out of them later on. The fact that we deliberately use...read more

by Jason Wakefield

Few Governments seem to care. The United nations aren't united they are divided. If we are to take out terrorists, we need to take out the nations harboring them and financing them. Governments should not negotiate with te...read more

by Christopher Cardinale

Another writer here has attempted to answer the question "should governments negotiate with terrorists" by proceeding from the premise that a terrorist, by what they term as "military definition" without citation (FN1), is...read more

by Paul Davidson

The question could also be posed, "Should terrorists with governmental power negotiate with terrorists without governmental power?" We live an illusion called democracy within what we call the internationa...read more