COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS 

Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means 

Hosted by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, a full-day symposium held at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City in November 2022 was followed by this special journal issue. The symposium was recorded in full and is now public. With seven articles by the Council’s members: 

1. Introduction: Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means, Chris Honeyman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider
2. Know Thyself – Embracing the Ambiguity of War by Other Means, Anne Leslie
3. How to Undermine a Nation-State in 120 Days: Mediation and Negotiation in a Hybrid Warfare World, Christopher A. Corpora, Ph.D.
4. Where is Negotiation in Hybrid Warfare?, Art Hinshaw, Adrian Borbély, and Calvin Chrustie
5. Thinking Ahead in the Grey Zone, Chris Honeyman and Ellen Parker
6. Negotiation Theories Engage Hybrid Warfare, Nancy A. Welsh, Sharon Press and Andrea Kupfer Schneider
7. A Theory of Interests in the Context of Hybrid Warfare: It’s Complex, Cynthia Alkon and Sanda Kaufman 
    

Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society Tactics 

This is a full special issue of On Track, the journal of Canada’s Conference of Defence Associations Institute. This publication follows a CDAI October 2022 webinar which marked the first time the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare, then 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. With five articles by the Council’s members: 

1. Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society Tactics, Christopher Honeyman & Andrea Kupfer Schneider, (here at page 6)
2. Mind the Hybrid Warfare Gap, Calvin Chrustie, (here at page 15)
3. How Hybrid Warfare is Redefining Contours od ‘Business as Usual’ and the Potential Role of the Military, Anne Leslie, (here at page 28)
4. Hybrid Warfare – Is it New, is it Real, and What are the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Implications for Defence and the Military?, Steven Desjardins, (here at page 37)
5. How Should the Whole-of-Society Respond to Hybrid Warfare?, Sanda Kaufman, (here at page 46) 

Hybrid Warfare, International Negotiation, and an Experiment in “Remote Convening” 

This is an article of the Fall 2020 issue of Negotiation Journal and the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare, then Project Seshat, original publication outlining the initial phases of the project’s. 

BACKGROUND PUBLICATIONS 

Council members have unusual experience in dealing with multinational, multidisciplinary problems that had proven beyond the reach of standard approaches. Below, we describe our previous conflict management projects and also provide links to selected readings on Hybrid Warfare. 

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS 

Council members previously led a twenty-year effort to find and integrate as many sources of understanding as possible of how conflict, conflict management and negotiation actually work. This effort produced the field’s first truly comprehensive research and teaching resource (The Negotiator’s Fieldbook; American Bar Association 2006); and then replaced it, a decade later, with a mostly-new and much larger resource (The Negotiator’s Desk Reference, DRI Press and NDRWeb.com, 2017, two volumes). By that time the effort drew from more than thirty different fields and practice specialties. Council members were also central to a multiyear, four-volume effort, the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Project, in which scholars from twenty countries analyzed the consequences of overrepresentation of American perspectives in conflict management and negotiation research and teaching worldwide, and applied a broader set of cultural knowledge and lived experiences to help make the whole field more relevant in more cultures. 

Those interested in that aspect of the background – i.e. how “wicked problems” arise and operate in conflict management – may wish to read selected chapters from two of the volumes in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Project as well as several chapters from The Negotiator’s Desk Reference: 

- Chapters 24-27 of Venturing Beyond the Classroom, 2010 (edited by C. Honeyman, J. Coben, and G. De Palo. St. Paul, MN: DRI Press) 

• Honeyman, C., and J. Coben. Navigating wickedness: A new frontier in teaching negotiation. PDF free here.
• Chrustie, C., J. S. Docherty, L. Lira, J, Mahuad, H. Gadlin, and C. Honeyman. Negotiating Wicked Problems: Five Stories. PDF free here.
• Docherty J. S., “Adaptive” Negotiation: Practice and Teaching. PDF free here.
• Lira L. Design: the U.S. Army’s Approach to Negotiating Wicked Problems. PDF free here. 

- Chapters 17-21 of Educating Negotiators for a Connected World, 2013 (edited by C. Honeyman, J. Coben, and A. W-M. Lee. St. Paul, MN: DRI Press) 

• Docherty J. S., and L. Lira. Adapting to the Adaptive: How Can We Teach Negotiation for Wicked Problems? PDF free here.
• Lira L., R. Parish. Making it up as You Go: Educating Military and Theater Practitioners in “Design.” PDF free here.
• Docherty, J. S., and C. Chrustie. Teaching Three-Dimensional Negotiation to Graduate Students. PDF free here.
• Gadlin, H., D. Matz, and C. Chrustie. Playing the Percentages in Wicked Problems: On the Relationship between Broccoli, Peacekeeping, and Peter Coleman’s The Five Percent. PDF free here.
• Kaufman, S., R. Lewicki, and J. Coben. Teaching Wickedness to Students: Planning and Public Policy, Business, and Law. PDF free here. 

- Chapters 83-85 of The Negotiator’s Desk Reference, 2017 (edited by C. Honeyman and A. K. Schneider. St. Paul, MN: DRI Press) 

• Coleman, P., and R. Ricigliano. Getting in sync: What to do when problem-solving fails to fix the problem. Excerpt free in PDF here.
• Coleman, P., N. Redding, and J. Fisher. Understanding intractable conflicts. Excerpt free in PDF here.
• Coleman, P., N. Redding, and J. Fisher. Influencing intractable conflicts. Excerpt free in PDF here. 

HYBRID WARFARE READINGS 

Below is a list of selected publications on Hybrid Warfare. The footnotes of the Council articles will have additional references. 

• Braw, E. 2020. Grayzone and Non-Kinetic Threats: A Primer. Available here (see also here for an up-to-date selection of Braw’s frequent articles).
• Galeotti, M. 2023. The Weaponization of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War. New Haven: Yale. Amazon link; 2022. Putin’s Wars. Oxford, UK: Osprey. Amazon link; 2019. We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong. London: Penguin. Amazon link.
• Gaouette, N., B. Starr, and V. Salama. 2020. Pentagon Warns China is Exploiting the Coronavirus Pandemic to Wage ‘Economic Warfare’ on the U.S. CNN, June 16. Available here.
• Qiao, L., and X. Wang. 1999. Unrestricted Warfare. Beijing: People’s Liberation Army Publishing House. (For recommendations of English translations of Qiao and Wang, see “Précis: Unrestricted Warfare,” Military Review, Sept.–Oct. 2019, available here).
• Tait, S. 2019. Hybrid Warfare: The New Face of Global Competition. Financial Times, October 14. Available here.