Grey zone conflict / hybrid warfare: How does it relate to negotiation, and to conflict management throughout the West?

Project Seshat (2019-2023) was a 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. ​Project Seshat included approximately fifty conflict management and security experts from many walks of life, and focused particularly on how to defend entities other than national governments: corporations, universities, hospitals, NGOs, think-tanks, municipalities and more. Following four years of study and experimentation, an effort is now under way to create a more institutional successor. (The details are not yet public.)

Chris Honeyman served as Project Seshat’s Principal Investigator and chaired the steering committee. He is now senior advisor to the group working to create Project Seshat’s successor.

Further background can be found at Project Seshat.  

Major publications

Forthcoming: (anticipated publication late 2024, at DRI Press.) The first teaching casebook on hybrid warfare is now being edited by Adrian Borbély. It is based in test cases developed by five interdisciplinary Project Seshat teams; further details will be announced shortly before publication.

Project Seshat. 2023. Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means.