Mitchell R. Hammer is President of Hammer Consulting, LLC, a conflict and crisis resolution organization, and Professor Emeritus of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at The American University, The School of International Service, International Peace and Conflict Resolution. He is co-editor, with Randall G. Rogan and Clinton R. Van Zandt, of Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research and Practice (Praeger, 1997). Dr. Hammer frequently provides expert analysis for the media, including NBC News, CNN, USA Today, and the Washington Post.

"Hammer is on to something that not only is important for successfully ending hostage situations with or without use of tactical operations personnel but also is consonant with important trends in the last 80 years of cultural anthropology, psychology, and the human sciences....Hammer's work contains solid, practical information. We may handle such events more safely because of it. More needs to be done, and Hammer is pointing a way forward." - PsycCRITITQUES

Mitchell R. Hammer is President of Hammer Consulting, LLC, a conflict and crisis resolution organization, and Professor Emeritus of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at The American University, The School of International Service, International Peace and Conflict Resolution. He is co-editor, with Randall G. Rogan and Clinton R. Van Zandt, of Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research and Practice (Praeger, 1997). Dr. Hammer frequently provides expert analysis for the media, including NBC News, CNN, USA Today, and the Washington Post.

"Hammer is on to something that not only is important for successfully ending hostage situations with or without use of tactical operations personnel but also is consonant with important trends in the last 80 years of cultural anthropology, psychology, and the human sciences....Hammer's work contains solid, practical information. We may handle such events more safely because of it. More needs to be done, and Hammer is pointing a way forward." - PsycCRITITQUES