Study: Paying terrorist kidnappers doesn’t pay off for countries

Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 11:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Paying ransoms to terrorist kidnappers may encourage more abductions and worsen the situation for others, according to new research from UT Dallas. Countries that negotiated with terrorists to release hostages faced up to 87 percent more kidnappings than those that did not pay ransoms, according to the research, which was recently published in theEuropean Journal […]

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