The Necessity of Negotiating With Terrorists

A Kurdish soldier stands guard after tens of thousands of people fled Mosul after it was overrun by ISIS. June 25, 2014

Jonathan Powell, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, founder of the NGO InterMediate and the author of Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace (Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2015), draws on his own experience with Northern Ireland and case histories in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Angola, and elsewhere to argue that negotiations are the only way to peace.