Bringing Americans Home: A Conversation with Diane Foley and Cynthia Loertscher
SPY Executive Director Chris Costa sat down with the founder of the James W. Foley Foundation, Diane Foley, and Cynthia Loertscher, the lead researcher for “Bringing Americans Home,” the First Non-Governmental Assessment of US Hostage Policy and Family Engagement.
NO HOSTAGE POLICY
Explaining the state of California’s prison system , no hostage policy.
Podcast: Should governments pay ransom for journalists?
ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, CJR Editor and Publisher Kyle Pope speaks with Joel Simon, executive director of Committee to Protect Journalists about his latest book We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom. They were joined by Janine di Giovanni, a human rights reporter …
Hostages in Iran: Update on the Jimmy Sharmahd Case
In February, we spoke with Ms. Gazelle Sharmahd, the daughter of Mr. Jamshid Sharmahd. As his friends and family call him, Jimmy is a U.S. Legal Permanent resident based with his family in California. A year ago this month, Jimmy was on his way back home to the United States from a business trip wh…
US Hostage Law and Policy, and Related Matters
In this episode, Jason Poblete talks with Dr. Danielle Gilbert, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Military & Strategic Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dr. Gilbert received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she also served as a Ph.D. …
What does moral courage have to do with the return of Americans taken hostage?
This event is sponsored by the IWP’s Student Veterans Association.
About the Lecture: Ms. Diane Foley will discuss her personal account of her son, James W. Foley, an American freelance journalist who was taken hostage in Syria in 2012, tortured and executed by ISIS in 2014. Ms. Foley will explore…
80s Ships and Protocol Kisses
You've heard of "shoot the hostage", but what do you do if your partner institutes a "kiss the hostage policy?" Worse yet, what happens if they kiss you and it's like the best damn thing you ever experienced? YOU CAN CHANGE THEM RIGHT?!?! Then, it's Christmas Day, which means Wonder Woman 1984 is o…
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