The Hostage and Wrongful Detention Playbook Has Persisted For Centuries, Because It Works

Thoughts on a timely Hostage Aid Worldwide piece by Susanne Berger and Caroline Edelstam

Susanne Berger and Caroline Edelstam have written a timely piece for Hostage Aid Worldwide: The Responsibility to Protect. The link is at the end of this post. It lays out what many of us have been warning for years: hostage diplomacy is not an outlier. It’s a deliberate tactic used by state and non-state actors because it delivers results.

In the piece…