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How do we build skill sets and strategies for current and future leaders — lawyers, business executives, diplomats, local and regional government officials, and others — to help them respond to an era of grey zone conflict / hybrid warfare?
Project Seshat is a multidisciplinary, multinational effort to study and respond to the rising threats of "hybrid warfare" or "grey zone conflict" now targeting all democracies. These are proliferating, but as yet are poorly understood, especially in the private, nonprofit and local government sectors. At the same time, Western security concerns even on the national level, and the resulting national investments in defense, continue to be overwhelmingly directed to "kinetic" conflict. Even where governments have begun to devote significant resources to combating (e.g.) cyber attacks, other elements of hybrid warfare have received less attention. But there is increasing evidence that attackers integrate different gambits, in ways that few Western groups are well-structured to examine. Project Seshat is the foremost effort to study grey zone conflict / hybrid warfare via not only the "security" disciplines, but also other fields which have long studied human conflict and its management from many perspectives. Project Seshat represents the broadest array of professional expertise now working on these issues. |
New Publications:
In 2022-23 Project Seshat has given special attention to a critical question — how our multifaceted subject can best be presented to audiences which differ widely in their orientations. These publications together address that question across a range of disciplines and practice specialties.
Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means
Sponsored by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, this special journal issue follows a full-day symposium held at Cardozo Law School in New York City in November 2022. The symposium was recorded in full and is now public. With seven articles by Project Seshat members.
Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society Tactics is a full special issue of On Track, the journal of Canada's Conference of Defence Associations Institute. With five articles by Project Seshat members, this publication follows a CDAI October 2022 webinar which marked the first time Project Seshat has been invited to address a specifically military audience. CDAI is the think tank of the Canadian Conference of Defence Associations, which together serve 400,000 active and retired members of the Canadian military.
Also:
A third related publication, a full casebook which will be the first teaching book on grey zone conflict / hybrid warfare publicly available, is now in preparation, and an article by Andrea Schneider and Chris Honeyman directed to the specific interests of lawyers committed to constructive management of conflict, Advocates’ and Neutrals’ Roles in a New Type of Conflict—the Private and Public Crises of Hybrid Warfare, was published in early 2023. Other writings are described at the Publications tab.
In June 2023, the project held its second in-person meeting, at the Vlerick Business School in Ghent, Belgium. A slate of new writing and other products to be developed from that meeting is now in preparation.
In 2022-23 Project Seshat has given special attention to a critical question — how our multifaceted subject can best be presented to audiences which differ widely in their orientations. These publications together address that question across a range of disciplines and practice specialties.
Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means
Sponsored by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, this special journal issue follows a full-day symposium held at Cardozo Law School in New York City in November 2022. The symposium was recorded in full and is now public. With seven articles by Project Seshat members.
Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society Tactics is a full special issue of On Track, the journal of Canada's Conference of Defence Associations Institute. With five articles by Project Seshat members, this publication follows a CDAI October 2022 webinar which marked the first time Project Seshat has been invited to address a specifically military audience. CDAI is the think tank of the Canadian Conference of Defence Associations, which together serve 400,000 active and retired members of the Canadian military.
Also:
A third related publication, a full casebook which will be the first teaching book on grey zone conflict / hybrid warfare publicly available, is now in preparation, and an article by Andrea Schneider and Chris Honeyman directed to the specific interests of lawyers committed to constructive management of conflict, Advocates’ and Neutrals’ Roles in a New Type of Conflict—the Private and Public Crises of Hybrid Warfare, was published in early 2023. Other writings are described at the Publications tab.
In June 2023, the project held its second in-person meeting, at the Vlerick Business School in Ghent, Belgium. A slate of new writing and other products to be developed from that meeting is now in preparation.