Download or read book Learning Lessons from Waco written by Jayne Seminare Docherty and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a conceptual model of worldview conflict, using the example of Waco to extract principles for negotiating with communities motivated by unconventional beliefs. The author argues that parties with fundamentally different worldviews must first deal with reality, or "worldnaming," before they can begin to confront the issues, and suggests that because they used different "naming, framing, and blaming" language, the two sides in the Waco negotiation were destined to fail. While the Branch Davidians' reality was based on values and spirituality, that of the FBI was scientific and goal-centered, and it dismissed the Davidians' attempts to communicate as "Bible babble." She concludes with 14 lessons for future crisis negotiators dealing with such groups.