Crisis Negotiation: From Suicide to Terrorism Intervention Simon Wells, Paul J. Taylor Lancaster University, UK and Ellen Giebels University of Twente, The Netherlands Authors’ Biographies Simon Wells is currently researching communicating with antagonistic people. He is particularly interested in how research can be translated into practice, as Simon is a Crisis Negotiator and was the United Kingdom Course Director for Hostage and Crisis Negotiation. Recently, Simon has been using research and research methods to further our understanding of communicating with individuals involved in terrorist activity, in particular kidnapping and hostage taking. Paul J. Taylor, Ph.D., uses experimental, archival and field research to better understand why certain people are uniquely effective at gaining cooperation from those who are mistrusting or hostile. Paul is Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University, UK, and Professor of