prisoner exchange
Trading detained people
A prisoner exchange is an arrangement between opposing sides in a conflict to return captured personnel to each other.
The exchange may be simultaneous or staggered, equal in numbers or negotiated asymmetrically: The countries agreed to a prisoner exchange involving three soldiers for one journalist.
The term applies to wartime POW swaps, hostage negotiations, and transfers between governments holding each other's nationals.
- POWCaptured military personnel
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- detaineePerson held in custody
- Red CrossInternational emergency relief organization
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
back channel · treaty · spy swap · homecoming · diplomacy · Geneva Conventions · mediation · good faith · accord · checkpoint · neutral ground · no man's land · swap · safe passage · quid pro quo · bridge · captivity · cold war
- exchangestrading, swap, swapping, barter, bartering
- Israeli-Palestinian ConflictIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, PLO
- diplomatic gesturestreaty signing, state visit, peace offering, summit, truce
- Mideast Peacepeace process, peace treaty, Oslo Accords, Camp David, two-state solution
- Passion narrativeJesus, Jesus Christ, Pilate, Pontius Pilate, Barabbas
- POW campsPOW, POW camp, prison camp, prisoners, military prison
prisoner exchangeransom payment
Sum paid for release
hostage rescue · ransom · jailbreak · prison break · prison escape
prisoner exchangeindefinite detention
Imprisonment without set duration
execution · life imprisonment · life sentence · death sentence · no deal