ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the complexities of the idea of moral repugnance. It provides some context for the phenomenon of negotiation, and offers some examples of actors that might legitimately have been labelled morally-repugnant. The chapter explores some of the circumstances in which it might be considered appropriate to deal with such actors notwithstanding their apparent turpitude. It elaborates some of the perils associated with negotiation and examines, as a concrete case, the 29 February 2020 agreement signed in Doha between the United States and the Afghan Taliban, and uses it to highlight some wider dangers. A number of different approaches can be employed in the course of a negotiation. Perhaps the most widely noted is bargaining and exchange, in which parties to a negotiation identify goods that can be traded as a way of leaving each party better off than otherwise it would have been.
