The official line is that public authorities do not negotiate with terrorists. However, governments frequently do end up negotiating with hostage talkers and kidnappers and with political groups classified as terrorists. Clearly there are negotiations and negotiations, just as there are terrorists and terrorists. Whilst  not necessarily advocate negotiating with terrorists, it is necessary to outline the practicalities of such negotiations and to provide a guide to deciding how, when, and with whom to negotiate.

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The workshop aims to examine existing scholarship on research methods in political philosophy as well as to explore more generally the link between methods and political thought. In a context of increased significance of research methods both in postgraduate teaching and in academic grant applications, this workshop aims to put the topic of research methods more starkly to the attention of political theorists as well as to advance the idea that the scholarship on methods in politics will benefit by political theory approaches to it.