ORBIT is an evidence-based approach to the analysis and training for interviewing high-value detainees by law enforcement, security services and the military. Although its origins reside as far back as 2005 it gained considerable traction after 2012 when the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, formed in the wake of the Obama Administration in the US funded work for Prof Alison to look at its application in the context of interviews with high value targets. Since then Alison and colleagues have collected the largest corpus of data anywhere in the world of real suspect interviews with terrorist detainees. This book shows what they found - that rapport-based methods work and that coercion, persuasion and threats do not. Outlining the development of their own unique stance on rapport and its influences drawn from humanistic psychology, the authors show, through real life examples and careful analysis the reasons why 'harsh methods' must be rejected and why compassion and understanding work"--
Conflict: How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions is about making hard choices--where all outcomes are potentially negative. The authors draw on interviews conducted with soldiers about the situations they faced and the decisions they made at war. These are vivid and sometimes distressing stories. They form the data from which the authors explore the cognitive processes associated with choice, commitment to action and (sometimes) error, as well as goal directed thinking, innovation and courage. By referring to real cases, Conflict invites readers to consider their own responses under extreme circumstances and ask themselves how they would choose between difficult options. In doing so this book will go some way to helping readers understand what it feels like when choosing between least-worst decisions.
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